by Jacob Hoehne | Feb 14, 2025 | Blog
Beyond Charity: Investing in Sustainable Solutions That Transform Communities Worldwide “Don’t give a fish. Don’t even teach how to fish. Invest in the fishing business.””And if you do that at scale around the world, no one has to leave their...
by Jacob Hoehne | Feb 7, 2025 | Blog
The Measurable Power of Kindness: How Small Acts Created an 18% Profit Boost and a 65% Drop in Violence 18% increase in profits – the measurable impact of kindness in organizations.Curtis Bennett calls himself a lobbyist for kindness. He runs the nonprofit One...
by Jacob Hoehne | Jan 31, 2025 | Blog
ForAfrika: Empowering Africa from Within – A Bold Vision to Impact 20 Million Lives by 2032 “People closest to the problem are closest to the solution……but furthest from power and resources.” – Glenn Martin. ForAfrika might be the best of both worlds...
by Jacob Hoehne | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog
AMOC: The Tipping Point for Our Climate – Why It’s Critical to Protect Earth’s Vital Heat Transport System Climate running AMOC? Or rather, the climate will run amok if the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) collapses. It’s one of earth’s vital systems...
by Jacob Hoehne | Jan 17, 2025 | Blog
Shifting Cultural Norms Through Storytelling: How Population Media Center Tackles Global Challenges $0.08 to save a life. That’s the cost in Tanzania per person for measurable HIV prevention. That’s just one of the success stories from Bill Ryerson with...
by Jacob Hoehne | Jan 15, 2025 | Blog
Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: How Sustainable Farmland and Forests Deliver Greater Returns and Impact Only 2% of the 900 million farmland acres in the US are managed regeneratively or organically. Greater returns and greater impact is possible for sustainably...
by Jacob Hoehne | Jan 13, 2025 | Blog
Transforming Investments: How Child-Lens Investing Maximizes Social Impact Across All Sectors $1 invested in early childhood development generates $6-17 of benefit for society. Florian Morales at UNICEF is helping to pioneer Child Lens Investing (like Gender Lens...
by Jacob Hoehne | Dec 30, 2024 | Blog
Outcomes-Based Finance: Turning Measurable Impact into Win-Win Solutions? Outcomes based finance – only pay if you create measurable impact. Sounds nice, but how do you structure the finance to make it work for all parties? That’s where Björn Vennema with Social...
by Jacob Hoehne | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog
1,000 Jobs in 1,000 Days: Empowering Refugee Entrepreneurs to Thrive There are 43.7 million refugees in the world, according to UNHCR.293,000+ live in Kukuma refugee camp in Kenya, which has been in operation for 32 years.Michael Linton with Maak Impact is working to...
by Jacob Hoehne | Dec 16, 2024 | Blog
Transforming Impact Through Storytelling: Building Equity, Inclusion, and a Better Future Impact investors: don’t forget to invest in stories, not just operations. That pays some of greatest dividends. If you want to keep focus on an issue, the storytelling has to...
