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CNote hires Danielle Burns to Head Business Development
We’re excited to announce a new member of CNote’s core leadership team, Danielle Burns. OAKLAND, California, July 11, 2019 — CNote has hired experienced Business Development professional, Danielle Burns, to help scale its advisory and institutional sales channels. Prior to CNote, Danielle served as the VP Sales & Marketing for First Affirmative Financial Network. There,…
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Meet Donica Johns, Inventive Mother and Entrepreneur
Donica Johns, a New Orleans native, has fond memories of going to Belladonna Day Spa with her mother when she was younger. Looking back, she never thought she would go on to create a line of skincare products let alone create a line of skincare products that would be sold on Belladonna’s shelves, but today,…
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Impact Investing and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Impact Investors are increasingly adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as their own. This can involve mapping investments to specific SDGs or even more thorough strategic alignment through the design of financial products specifically for their achievement. However, there is still a lack of awareness across the financial sector, particularly in the United…
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Place-Based Investing: A Joint Case Study by the Sierra Club Foundation and CNote
Click below to read a joint case study covering how The Sierra Club Foundation was able to support organizational goals by leveraging place-based impact investing through CNote. Download the case study
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Meet Clara Richardson-Olguin, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Flooring Enthusiast
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Clara Olguin was passionate about many things: music, dance, theatre, and justice. She even has a law degree from the Dominican Republic and a bachelor in Music Management/Voice from Georgia State. However, it wasn’t until the early 2000s that she became passionate about floors. And not just dance floors.…
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What’s the Big Deal About Inequality And What Role Does the U.S. Federal Reserve Play?
Why Does Inequality Matter? The phenomenon of increasing wealth inequality has emerged as one of the major socio-political issues of our time. Whether you turn to TV stations, newspapers, or internet blogs to keep up to date with news and current events, there’s a good chance that you have already seen the topic come up…
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Meet Dr. Jeremy Busch, Navy Veteran, Podiatrist, and CDC Loan Recipient
Growing up, Jeremy Busch never thought about becoming a podiatrist. According to him, it was the last thing on his list. The sight of blood — in real life, in movies, or on television — made him squeamish, and besides, his passion was engineering, not healthcare. Then September 11th happened. In 2001, Busch was a…
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Retail Impact Investing Options
What impact investing options are currently available to retail investors? What is impact investing and how can I participate? These are questions we often hear from individual investors looking to connect their money with meaning. According to the Global Impact Investing Networking (GIIN), impact investing refers to investments that are “…made into companies, organizations, and…
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CNote’s Q1 2019 Impact Metrics – Infographic
We know one of the main reasons you invest with CNote, is because of the impact your investment has. We’re proud to share our Q1 2019 impact data. In Q1 2019, our members helped create/maintain 262 jobs! Over half of all invested capital was deployed with minority-led businesses. We’re also extremely proud to announce that more…
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Change Makers Interview: Tory Dietel Hopps
You could say that philanthropy runs in Tory Dietel Hopps’ family. She’s a fourth-generation inheritor, philanthropist and activist, and she spent the first 25 years of her professional career in the nonprofit sector, focusing on resource development, management and governance for nonprofit organizations in education, health and human services. In 2007, Tory joined her father,…
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