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Health is increasingly recognized as the product of many social, economic, and environmental factors that extend far beyond the doctor’s office. This spring, two monumental policy updates now allow for greater flexibility and innovation to address these factors.

Director Carolyn duPont writes about her presentation at the Conservation Finance Roundtable discussing our efforts to connect upstream agricultural producers with downstream municipalities seeking to reduce run-off at the source rather than paying for expensive downstream water treatment, as well as inspiring and innovative ideas shared by others.

Nicole Truhe is the Government Affairs Director at America Forward, New Profit’s bipartisan policy initiative. She’s been one of the country’s driving forces behind a sustained effort to pass Federal legislation to further enable Pay For Success.

After attending the National Interagency Reinvestment Conference last month in Miami, Michael Gaughan (Executive Director, Vermont Municipal Bond Bank) and Eric Letsinger (CEO, Quantified Ventures) argue that aligning CRA requirements with our country's infrastructure needs can unlock significant capital for much-needed projects.

The week brought a 70-degree day — giving us East Coasters our first taste of spring and anticipation of summer — that was then followed the next day by snow, triggering a nagging feeling that this weather is definitely not normal.

In partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), Quantified Ventures sponsored the Mayors Innovation Project gathering, which brought dozens of mayors and representatives from mayors’ offices around the country together in our nation’s capital to share ideas and best practices.

If you haven’t been to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s headquarters in Annapolis, MD, you’ll thank yourself if you do. It’s a unique and thoughtful tribute to the elegant notion of minimizing our impact on nature as we live, work, and play.

Last year’s wave of hurricanes brought devastation to Puerto Rico, Houston, the Virgin Islands, and elsewhere, with the poorest and most vulnerable least able to withstand the impacts and often not the priority focus of recovery efforts.

Quantified Ventures' Alison Rein and Eric Letsinger weigh in on blockchain's potential for outcomes-based financing. We see a lot of possibility and are excited about using this new tool to support better outcomes in health, education, and the environment.

Quantified Ventures CEO Eric Letsinger recently spoke on a panel about “Investing in Peace” at the Venture Peacebuilding Symposium in Washington, D.C., where he and other partners unveiled the idea of a new fund to allow impact investors to support startups creating tech-based peace solutions, which would be a first-of-a-kind.

Last week, Quantified Ventures CEO Eric Letsinger moderated a panel at Credit Suisse’s 5th Annual Conservation Finance Conference on “Climate-smart Coastal Resiliency Investing.”

When I was roughly nine years old, a few years after my grandfather passed away, my mom and I moved into his house on Capitol Hill. She told me that it was our job to keep his house in our family — whatever that meant.

THRUUE CEO Dan Forrester works with CEOs to close the gap between strategy and culture. He believes employees can and should be engaged to get results. Our CEO Eric Letsinger interviews Dan, who shares his quest to start and build companies with social missions, helping clients such as Meal On Wheels America and LeadingAge.

Last week I had the chance to speak at C-TAC’s National Summit on Advanced Illness Care — an inspiring gathering of professionals committed to finding better ways to care for those facing the final chapters of their lives.

Last week, I had the great pleasure of speaking at this year’s Council of Development Finance Agency’s conference in Atlanta to share our firm’s progress and challenges associated with leveraging outcomes-based financing structures to spur smart infrastructure spending in the U.S.

I met Katie for this interview on a gorgeous April day in 2017 in her office, which is warm, inviting, and overlooks DC’s Rock Creek Park – lush and alive on one of DC’s rare, humidity-free Spring days.