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Land Trusts Can Lead to Housing Justice, Says a Federal Reserve Bank

April 29, 2022
Source: St. Louis Fed
This April 27 blog post works through how community land trusts, which farmers started in the face of racist systems, can advance Black homeownership.
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Steering Into the Conservation Bank?

April 08, 2022
Source: Charleston Post-Courier
This April 4 news item catches us up on (still-in-draft) efforts to create a state conservation bank in South Carolina.
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A Nice Amount of Capital

March 04, 2022
Source: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/sessiondaily/Story/17174
This March 1 release from the Minnesota House provides some detail on $155 million in outdoor-preservation appropriations, including concerns about equity and inclusion and scrutiny about land management.
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Land Trusts Can Be Just the Urban Thing

March 04, 2022
Source: City Limits
This February 28 story from a traditionally activist source explores how New York City might create land trusts to preserve affordability and open space, which usually correlate with outdoor health benefits.
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An Indiana Land Trust Works to Sustain Diversity and Equity

January 21, 2022
Source: Indianapolis Business Journal
This January 14 story captures how land-trust tactics can support resilience and inclusion for communities as well as for habitats.
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A Pioneering Environmental Impact Bond for DC Water (Updated)

Abby Martin, Alec Appelbaum
September 27, 2021
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District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) created a municipal bond that covers the downside risk of using green infrastructure to control stormwater runoff. By offloading risk to investors, the utility drew new financing -and time to get its practices right. Now other cities are following its lead.
Republic Iron and Steel Works

This historic image shows Republic Iron and Steel Works,
a factory that was in Youngstown, Ohio in the early 20th century.
Today, Youngstown has experienced a decline in its manufacturing
economy, leading to poverty and crime. Green infrastructure can
help make Youngstown and similar communities safer and healthier.
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A Blueprint for Financing Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Kat Friedrich
August 27, 2018
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  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
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  • Cities
  • Climate
In a few Rust Belt cities that are seeking economic and social benefits, Greenprint Partners – formerly known as Fresh Coast Capital – is breaking new ground by financing fresh solutions for green stormwater infrastructure. It is using a combination of municipal, private and government resources. Its goals are to...
Rain gardens built by District Stormwater

Rain gardens built by District Stormwater, LLC, in partnership
with Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Washington,
generate over 90,000 SRCs annually at the historic Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
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Focus on Investors Boosts DC’s Stormwater Credit Market

Allegra Wrocklage
August 27, 2018
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  • Cities
  • Climate
The Washington, DC Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE)’s Stormwater Retention Credit Program takes a unique approach to attracting private capital to effectively leverage public funds. DOEE’s financial commitment to managing its stormwater challenges and proactive transparency in working with investors have created an attractive opportunity for private investment.
Desert Rose

Donor-Advised Funds Are an Untapped Source of Impact Capital

Nathalie Woolworth
August 22, 2018
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The National Philanthropic Trust’s 2017 Donor-Advised Fund Report found that the capital housed in donor-advised funds across the United States exceeded $85 billion in 2016. This represents an almost 10-percent increase since 2015 and a 28-percent increase since 2012.
River in Maine

How to Get an Impact Investor's Attention

Jeffrey Conti
July 25, 2018
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Conservation managers and entrepreneurs who are looking to make their projects stand out as investment opportunities should be sure to supply the information that investors want. Impact investing experts interviewed by Network expressed a surprising lack of interest in most impact metrics and measurements aside from carbon sequestration...

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