New Impact Offerings, Seminal Work ‘Reclaiming Our Democracy’, January Impact Cherub Club Meeting, Invest Directly in Climate Solutions and Learn How to Make Money Doing Good
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Arco Technologies Featured Among New Impact Offerings - January 8, 2024
Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:
Impact offerings as determined by KingsCrowd reviews.
Offerings with minority founders.
Deals with women founders.
Those with LGBTQ founders.
Seminal Work ‘Reclaiming Our Democracy’ Updated for Today’s ‘Trouble’ - s11 ep44
AI Episode Summary
1. Devin Thorpe, the host of the Superpowers for Good show, introduces his guest, Sam Daley-Harris, an influential figure in social change, the author of Reclaiming Our Democracy, and the founder of RESULTS, an anti-poverty lobby.
2. Sam shares his origin story, beginning with a background in music and two impactful deaths that occurred during his high school and college graduations, leading him to ponder his life's purpose.
3. His journey shifted when he attended a presentation on ending world hunger organized by The Hunger Project, which inspired him to get involved after realizing hunger solutions existed, but people were not acting on them.
4. Sam's advocacy work started with educating high school students about political will and engaging citizenship, subsequently creating RESULTS based on the disconnect he saw between public awareness and political action.
5. RESULTS focuses on child survival issues and has been a significant influence in reducing the global child death rate by 66% over the past 40 years through continuous lobbying and advocacy.
6. A personal story of success is recounted, where Sam received written gratitude from Jim Grant, the then-head of UNICEF, for the advocacy work RESULTS volunteers did to increase the Child Survival Fund.
7. Sam details the reasons for updating his book "Reclaiming Our Democracy" in response to the current challenges faced by democracy and the public's eagerness for ideas on making a difference.
8. The puzzle piece on the cover of his book symbolizes that the "missing piece" in democracy is the citizens themselves, awakening to their power to make a difference.
9. Sam's superpower, "being in on the joke," refers to his awareness and conviction that individuals do have power and can make a significant impact on state, national, and global issues despite common skepticism.
10. The book Reclaiming Our Democracy provides guidance on transformational advocacy, highlighting the importance of organizational enrollment and community building, skill development, and enabling individuals to experience breakthroughs in advocacy.
See the Great Companies We're Considering at the January Impact Cherub Club Meeting
As we gear up for the 1:00 PM Eastern, January 16th, meeting of the Impact Cherub Club, we invite you to join us. The club is an informal gathering of friends who meet up to review impact investments everyone is eligible to make, and virtually anyone can afford. We share responsibility for completing basic due diligence before making investments. No one is required to invest.
There are no dues or fees to participate, and I don’t touch the money. When members invest, they do so directly for their own accounts. We benefit from new members only by the fresh perspectives they bring. Please join us!
Did You Know You Can Invest Directly in Climate Solutions That Help People? - s11 ep45
AI Episode Summary
1. Devin Thorpe, the host of the "Superpowers for Good" show, introduces his guest Cheri Sugal, CEO and founder of Integrity Global Partners.
2. Cheri discusses Integrity Global Partners' crowdfunding efforts on Raise Green for a large-scale landscape restoration project in Malawi aimed at aiding over 100,000 households and restoring natural ecosystems.
3. The project in Malawi includes agricultural land management and the distribution of cookstoves to local communities to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions as well as improve health and economic well-being.
4. The cookstoves provided are mobile, allowing for outdoor cooking, which has significant health benefits as it minimizes smoke inhalation in enclosed spaces.
5. The goal of Integrity Global Partners is to address the shortfall in funding for nature-based solutions and facilitate the flow of capital from developed countries to projects in the Global South through carbon markets and offsets.
6. Cheri stresses the importance of carbon markets, noting that investments in nature-based solutions in the Global South are cost-effective and essential for meeting climate goals.
7. Technological advancements have improved the accuracy and transparency of monitoring and measuring the impact of nature-based projects, resolving many past criticisms of carbon markets.
8. Cheri's superpower is compassion, which has been cultivated through her experiences working with remote communities worldwide, listening to their needs, and finding solutions that improve their livelihoods while addressing the nexus between climate change, poverty, and biodiversity loss.
9. Cheri emphasizes the importance of translating complex financial and carbon markets into terms that indigenous people and local communities can understand, fostering informed participation from these communities.
10. The interview concludes with Cheri providing information on how to find and support their crowdfunding initiative on the Raise Green website or through the Integrity Global Partners website.
Don't Miss These Great Opportunities to Learn How to Make Money Doing Good
In the next few months, The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, the company I run, will host a variety of great events you don’t want to miss. Today, I’ll focus on three: the virtual SuperCrowdHour on January 17th at 1:00 Eastern with a panel of impact investors, the in-person SuperCrowdBaltimore on March 21st, and the virtual SuperCrowd24 on April 17th and 18th.
Next Wednesday, I’ll host a panel of impact investors actively investing via regulated investment crowdfunding for our SuperCrowdHour. Each investor brings a unique perspective; listening to them will help you develop better strategies for investing or for appealing to like-minded investors. You don’t want to miss this!
We offer a $100 reward to anyone who attends ten of our free monthly SuperCrowdHour webinars. The $100 will come as a reimbursement for investing in crowdfunding campaigns (details here). To earn attendance credit toward your reward, you must register in advance and attend via Zoom. Register here.