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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Tuesday
    April 2
    2024

    Information Session: Endowment Impact Benchmark

    Join this virtual information session to learn about the Endowment Impact Benchmark (EIB) — an assessment and ratings framework that enables endowments to earn recognition for their commitment to sustainable and impact investing. In 2023, IEN piloted the EIB with five leading endowments representing public and private colleges and universities, with assets under management ranging from $50 million to over $20 billion. In 2024, IEN will engage a second cohort of endowments to participate in the EIB, working with BlueMark to conduct the third-party verification process. In this information session, participants will learn more about the 2023 EIB pilot outcomes, dive into details on the assessment questionnaire participating endowments will complete in 2024 across four components: Strategy, Management, Governance and Transparency, discuss the timeline and expectations of participation, and learn more about the unique benefits of participation. To learn more about the Endowment Impact Benchmark, please contact Georges Dyer and Nicole Torrico at georges@intentionalendowments.org and nicole@intentionalendowments.org.

    Time: 1:00 PM ET
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  • Blau Colloquium, 5th floor of the Blau Building at the Ross School of Business - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    April 3
    2024

    How an E-Bike Startup is Looking to Change the Way Africa Moves

    wahu! is the first Ghanaian brand to produce electric vehicles domestically. The electric bike (e-bike) startup brings together local talent and experienced automotive engineers and designers from global automakers, including Audi and BMW.

    In the talk, “How an E-Bike Startup is Looking to Change the Way Africa Moves,” Valerie Labi, co-founder and CEO of wahu! Mobility Ltd. will discuss how the business is unlocking new possibilities in low-emission mobility solutions, particularly in urban markets. By locally designing and manufacturing connected EVs for Africa and the wider world, wahu!’s value proposition includes ease of transport, a path to vehicle ownership and a gateway to sustainable employment through mobility services.

    Labi is an entrepreneur who also served as Ghana country director for nonprofit iDE, International Development Enterprises, which focuses on market-based solutions in agriculture and water/sanitation. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Southampton and her Masters of Studies from the University of Cambridge in Sustainability Leadership.

    This event is open to the public and sponsored by the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) in partnership with the African Studies Center at U-M’s School of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

    Attendees are encouraged to register (see below or click here) and submit questions in advance. Light refreshments will be served.

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    April 3
    2024

    SurveyCTO Presentation Series: Inclusive Development Research: Nurturing Care and Reducing Transgender Discrimination

    About the presenters: 2022 primary data collection grant winners Elizabeth Hentschel and Duncan Webb

    SurveyCTO has proudly awarded Primary Data Collection grants to up-and-coming researchers since 2021. And in this month’s webinar, we’re excited to showcase the groundbreaking research of two of 2022’s awardees.

    In addition to these two awardees for our 2022 research grant, SurveyCTO awarded partial grants to 10 additional researchers. In this webinar, we feature two researchers from that cohort: Elizabeth Hentschel, PhD in Population Health Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Duncan Webb, PhD candidate in Economics at the Paris School of Economics. Elizabeth and Duncan will both present on inclusive development research-related topics.

    Elizabeth’s research project is called “Measuring Nurturing Care Across Contexts: A Pathway to Healthy Child Development and Protection.” It focuses on the development and validation of the responsive caregiving tool, a core component of the nurturing care framework and a predictor of early child development. In collaboration with the World Health Organization, Elizabeth validated the tool in the Naushahro Feroze district of Sindh, Pakistan. Using SurveyCTO, Elizabeth was able to provide evidence that the tool was reliable and valid, and then collect follow-up data a year and a half later with the ultimate goal of understanding how responsive caregiving mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and child development in rural Pakistan.

    Duncan’s research project, “Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India,” looks at ways that conversations can reduce personal prejudice and social discrimination against transgender people. Specifically, Duncan examines whether discrimination can be reduced by two types of communication about a minority: 1. horizontal communication between majority-group members, or 2. top-down communication from agents of authority (e.g., the legal system). To do this, he ran a field experiment in urban India that measures discrimination against a marginalized community of transgender people.

    In this webinar, Elizabeth and Duncan will present findings from their current projects and explain how they used SurveyCTO for their project’s data collection needs to make an impact.

    Come learn from two outstanding early-career researchers and be inspired in this webinar!

    Time: 9:00 AM ET / 2:00 PM UTC

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  • Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - 3 Days
    Saturday
    April 6
    2024

    WomenLift Health Global Conference

    Welcome to the forefront of advancing women’s leadership in global health and promoting gender equality! Anticipate a convening of a diverse multidisciplinary array of inspiring women, and men in global health at The WomenLift Health Global Conference 2024. The conference will take place from April 6 to April 8, 2024, at the Julius Nyerere International Conference Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  This convening is poised as one of the largest platforms dedicated to addressing the multifaceted challenges impeding women’s progress in leadership roles in global health.

    This in-person convening is positioned to build networks and leadership skills, mentor, inspire, empower and champion women leaders to catalyze global action to close the gender gap in health leadership.

    Brace yourself for dynamic discussions that will challenge the status quo, pushing the boundaries of conventional discourse to foster transformative change in global health through the lens of transformational and inclusive leadership.

    The 2024 conference serves as more than just an event; it’s a dynamic space for building robust networks, honing leadership skills, and fostering mentorship, coaching and training opportunities to inspire women leaders.

    For any inquiries about the conference, reach out to the WomenLift Health team at conference@womenlifthealth.org.

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  • New York, New York - 3 Days
    Monday
    April 8
    2024

    ESG and Sustainable Investments for Financial Institutions

    This GFMI conference will provide key insights into how to overcome significant challenges within ESG and navigate a tumultuous regulatory and political landscape. The conference will look at case studies of best-case investment strategies within ESG and evaluate the key opportunities for sustainable investing. Thought leaders will consider how to address various challenges with data quality and lack of standardization across the industry and evaluate how to ensure transparency to limit reputational damage from greenwashing and social washing. This conference will also exchange ideas on new, innovative factors within ESG, such as AI and biodiversity investing.

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Tuesday
    April 9
    2024

    Fuelling Change

    In 2023, Impact Europe’s members continued to explore the role of Catalytic Capital as a vital accelerator for impact investing. Activities ranging from e-talks, blogs, Impact Week events to the release of Impact Europe’s whitepaper ‘Catalysing Impact’, all looked to showcase and explain our community’s belief in this form of capital.

    One area we, as a community, highlighted was the vital role grant capital had to play as catalytic capital. Responding to this in 2023 via a series of e-talks (here and here), we started to explore what catalytic grant making looks like for foundations and how best practices can be replicated.

    To kick-off 2024, Impact Europe is continuing this journey by organising a Foundations e-talk on catalytic grant making, to showcase practitioners’ best practices. The e-talk, taking place on 9 April at 14.00 CEST, will provide an interactive discussion, where you can learn about other organisations’ journey, barriers and solutions towards more impact through catalytic grant making.

    Impact Europe members can also join us for a members-only online gathering on 12 March at 10.00 CET, providing an opportunity for a more in-depth discussion.

    Register here to secure your spot in the e-talk. If you are interested in joining the members-only online gathering, tick the designated box on the registration form provided above.

    If you are a member interested to showcase your experience at this or future events, tick the designated box on the registration form provided above or by contacting Filipa directly at flancademorais(at)impacteurope.net.

    Time: 14.00 CEST | 8:00 AM ET

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  • NYC & Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    April 10
    2024

    3rd Annual Symposium on System-level Investing

    This gathering is co-hosted by TIIP, The U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, and Principles for Responsible Investment and made possible by support from Domini Impact Investments, Orrick and the High Meadows Institute.

    **Space is limited for the in-person gathering. All interested in attending who cannot be accommodated in-person will be able to participate virtually.**

    More information about the event and a summary of the agenda are below:

    It’s time for a new way to think about investing, one that can contend with the complex risks we face today. Previously, investors could find ways to insulate their portfolios from certain global events. Today, even seemingly ‘local’ events can immediately and adversely affect all portfolios. The largest, most influential investors are recognizing this trend and considering the interconnection between environmental and societal systems under stress and adverse portfolio performance.

    Those same investors are adapting and adopting policies and practices that are additive to conventional investment scrutiny at the security and portfolio levels, helping them to confront global environmental and social systemic challenges in a way that makes financial sense. Adjusting to a changing world of risks, these asset owners and asset managers are charting the next, critical shift in the evolution of investment, what we call system-level investing.

    The 3rd Annual System-level Investing Symposium is an opportunity to bring together these key investors and influencers to continue to establish and refine a shared vision of system-level investing and stewardship; identify system-level investing examples; discuss opportunities, challenges, and breakthroughs needed; and to help the industry avoid working at cross-purposes.

    This hybrid event, with participants able to join either in-person or online, will include remarks from TIIP as well as feature other leaders at the forefront of the system-level investing movement. During the first part of the day, participants will hear from leading investors who are harnessing system-level investing to address the societal, financial, and environmental systemic challenges of today. In the afternoon, in-person attendees will be able to share their views with peers in a “Learning Lab” focused on key topics in system-level investing, including fiduciary duty, materiality, shareholder engagement, standard setting and more.

    Key research will also be released during the event, including a series of case studies on the first-mover investment teams that have acknowledged the importance of—and embraced the practices for—system-level investing. These investors, many of whom will be speaking at the event, are demonstrating where the field is headed and presenting a path forward for other investors to learn from their peers and to join them on the vanguard of this evolution.

    Summary Agenda (in-person and virtual, 9.00am-2.30pm ET):

    • Welcome
    • Presentation: System-level Investing Takes Flight
    • Panel: What Investors Look for in OCIOs and Investment Managers
    • Break
    • Rapid Fire Round: Data and Analysis – The Opportunities and Challenges
    • Panel: Meeting Client Demand
    • Luncheon and Fireside Chat: System-level Investing State of Play
    • Rapid Fire Round: How System-level Investing Meets Alpha and Beta Expectations
    • Presentation: Making the Fiduciary Case
    • Break and Virtual Meeting Ends

    (In-person only, 2:30pm – 4.30pm ET)

    Learning Lab: Implementing System-level Investing (Participants select one topic below)

    #1 – Strategy development and implementation
    #2 – Fiduciary Duty
    #3 – Data and Analysis
    #4 – Measurement and Reporting
    #5 – Standard Setting
    #6 – Materiality
    #7 – Industry Associations
    #8 – Stewardship
    #9 – US Policy
    #10 – Efforts addressing systemic social risks

    Closing

    Reception to follow for in-person attendees from 4:30-5:30pm ET

    Time: 9am – 5:30pm EDT

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  • InterContinental Hotel, Lusaka - 2 Days
    Thursday
    April 11
    2024

    Zambia Decentralized Renewable Energy Days

    The event will be an opportunity for the GRZ to share their renewed commitment to DRE electrification with the sector, launch the Presidential 1,000 Mini-grid Initiative and the Hardest to Reach Initiative as well as highlight key commitments from international donors to the energy access space. As part of their efforts SEforALL, AMDA, GOGLA, GDC and the Solar Industry Association of Zambia (SIAZ) are inviting the energy and development sector to Lusaka to create transformative connections and partnerships, engage in key initiatives and discuss how to overcome regulatory challenges and market barriers to achieve a common goal.
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