Grant Chou

Just trying to learn what everyone else is thinking out here.

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"The benefit of a public bank is that it will be required to lend back to the city and fill gaps such as affordable housing. Public banks will be profitable for the city and state which will lower taxes for everyone." Sushil Jacob @SOCAPmarkets
#SOCAP19 #DemocratizeBanking

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"We are a community. We hire from our community. We embed ourselves in the community. Most of the people who work here live in  the communities we serve. It's all about our people." - Julie Bertani-Kiser, Recology @SOCAPmarkets
#SOCAP19
#Democracy4All #RethinkBusiness

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"We need to reduce embodied emissions by not creating new emissions and reduce operating emissions by making new buildings more efficient." - Larry Strain, Siegal and Strain Architects @SOCAPmarkets
#SOCAP19 #ClimateChange

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"Because straw is an agricultural waste product it has even more carbon sequestering capabilities than wood" - Frances Yang, Arup @SOCAPmarkets
#SOCAP19
#ClimateChange

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When asked "What would a Native Capitalism look like?", Chrystel Cornelius of First Nations Oweesta Corporation replied, "It would mean taking care of our most vulnerable first." @SOCAPmarkets
#SOCAP19 #IndigenousCommunities

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"When our program ends we dont just say goodbye and good luck. We have a network and a safe place to land for the people we serve." - Elizabeth Gamboa, New Mexico Community Capital @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #IndigenousCommunities

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#FoodTruckParty #StillPartying @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19

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#FoodTruckParty @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19

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"Maybe we should look and see that if another organization's solution set has better outcomes in the same area we work in that we think to ourselves, 'maybe we aren't needed in this area'." - Liz Diebold, Principal at the Skoll Foundation @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #LatAm

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"We have a lot of people here doing the same thing but are we collaborating? Are we going to look back in 20 years and ask ourselves 'where is the progress'?" - Beth Collins, Managing Director of Impsct Investing @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #LatAm #Collaboration

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"If you don't bake unemployed youth, climate change and a gender lens into your investments then you likely don't have a robust systems level change solution." - Willy Foote and Liz Diepold @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #LatAm #SystemsChange

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"I wonder how much marginalized people who are getting into training program pipelines are actually getting to the positions where they can create real wealth? It seems like the rungs between entry level and wealth generation are really far."- Justin Steele @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19

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"You need to make sure that the end users of the digital technology are brought into the design process." - David Steuer, UCSF @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #ImpactTech

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“One misconception we had was that ‘people in the business world don’t care about the city, they don’t have the same values’ and that was not true. We realized we shared more similar values than differences.” - Jay Nath, City Innovate @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #ImpactTech

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@morgansimon1 reminds us that the best way forward is to decrease prisons, increase mental health services and preventative services, and to reduce the number of people going to prison altogether. @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #impinv

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Sarah Kearney of Prime Coalition reminds us that even in the face of a colossal problem such as climate change that "You don't need to be a large foundation to get involved with catalytic capital." @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #CatalyticCapital

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To an audience wondering how to make a meaningful dent in climate change, John Balbach from the MacArthur Foundation reminds us that "We all need to be willing to collaborate and stand behind the leadership of others." @SOCAPmarkets #SOCAP19 #CatalyticCapital

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"Now is the time to be bold and to really push ourselves and invest in new and innovative approaches to tackle climate change." - Susan Phinney Silver, The Packard Foundation @SOCAPmarkets #SoCap19 #CatalyticCapital

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"There is a dire need for impact measurement standardization if we are going to attract mass amounts of capital." - Christine Roddy, AlphaMundi Foundation @SOCAPmarkets #Socap19 #impinv

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"As an investor, you should think about, 'is your money flowing into places that just benefit your organization or is it benefiting the whole community, especially communities of color?'" - Ilays Aden, Forterra @SOCAPmarkets #socap19 #impinv