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Natixis Investment Managers serves financial professionals with more insightful ways to construct portfolios. Powered by the expertise of our multi-affiliate model, we apply Active Thinking® to deliver proactive solutions that help clients pursue better outcomes in all markets. Natixis ranks among the world’s largest asset management firms
World Tree was originally founded in 2002 as World Tree Technologies Inc. a US corporation based in Mesa Arizona. Wendy has traveled to Brazil, Paraguay, Australia, New Zealand and throughout the USA to learn how to successfully grow and manage Empress Splendor trees, and has over 20 years knowledge and experience working with these trees.
While the Empress Tree is known and greatly prized in Asia, it is relatively unknown in North America. World Tree has been an innovator, leading the way in researching the best way to plant and grow the tree, educate the public in the properties of the tree, and train farmers how to successfully cultivate it.
Founded in 1998, Impax offers a range of listed equity, fixed income, smart beta and real asset strategies.
All strategies utilise the firm’s specialist expertise in understanding investment opportunities arising from the transition to a more sustainable economy.
We are engaged investors, in regular dialogue with companies in our portfolios and reporting on our stewardship activities to our clients.
Where possible, we endeavor to measure and report on the positive environmental and societal impacts of our investments.
Uncommon is a new financial services company centered around “doing good in uncommon ways.” At the forefront is a virtual community connecting individuals with nonprofits by matching their passions to charitable causes while providing discovery, transparency and feedback for individuals, corporations and wealth managers. Donations would be facilitated through a digital wallet specifically designed for giving. Uncommon plans to combine its digital giving platform with a fully integrated generosity ecosystem providing a seamless experience through payments, impact investing and donor advised giving – all with the goal of reversing the decline in charitable giving and volunteerism. Adding thought leadership and inspiring content, Uncommon seeks to ignite a generosity movement
Descartes Labs is the first company to offer a data refinery that combines a multi-petabyte library of geospatial data with customers’ internal data for building predictive models. And Descartes Labs is the only company to combine a highly scalable data processing and modeling platform with a massive geospatial data library. We help enterprise customers create competitive advantage and minimize environmental impact by scaling data science innovation, automating decisions, and transforming themselves into self driving organizations. Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Descartes Labs has offices across the United States serving customers globally.
To accomplish this, we solve challenging environmental issues for the industrial waste industry by developing sustainable products and services through technology
Not just electricity, but also the power we provide commercial and industrial (C&I) building owners to take back control of how they access and use energy.
There are 120 million C&I buildings in the U.S. alone. They consume 75% of all domestic electricity generated. We see their 87 billion square feet of flat rooftops as potential power plants.
Unlocking these idle real estate assets will create trillions of dollars of new value for building owners, businesses, and local economies. We have the vision, experience and backing to make it happen. So that’s exactly what we’re doing. That’s Point Load Power.
Green Kid Crafts is the leading award-winning monthly subscription kit for kids that delivers a new STEM and STEAM learning adventure to families each month. Green Kid Crafts encourages creativity, literacy, and environmental education through thematic kits designed by educators and scientists to foster a generation of environmental leaders. Earth, wildlife and ecosystem science, environmental activism, geography, math, art, technology, and engineering are woven into each themed kit, all made with carbon-neutral, sustainable materials. Green Kid Crafts has recently been honored with a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award and NCW Eco-Excellence Award and is the top-ranked subscription box for kids by the New York Times, My Subscription Addiction, and Parent’s Choice. Celebrating shipment of its millionth kit last fall, Green Kid Crafts has grown an astounding 765 percent over the past two years.
Nicky’s Gardens of Hope was created by Adriana Piltz to ensure that her highly disabled autistic son would have a place to live after she passed away. It is the first holistic and sustainable village for Adults with Autism and IDD (Intellectual Developmental Disability) that is designed for quality of life and community integration. Its model elevates the quality of services while providing education, employment & life activities. The open village-like environment reduces barriers between the disabled & the community and integrates Adults with Autism & IDD into the larger world, further reducing the stigma of disability. These kinds of services require a life-long commitment by service providers so Nicky’s Gardens of Hope has developed The Balance Risk Revenue model to be self-sustainable by using tools such as the B corp., impact investing, and recurring revenue streams from incubated business lines that fulfill the needs of the community.
www.nickysgardensofhope.com