Year in Review: 2020
2020 was not for the faint of heart. While this year started like many others, our strategies quickly pivoted. As the virus hit us all hard in March, we were trying to celebrate QV’s sixth anniversary while closing our office, ceasing all travel, and transitioning to remote operations. A relentlessly steady drumbeat of virus surges, racial injustices, increasing rates of unemployment and economic anxieties, large natural disasters exacerbated by a warming climate, and a contentious U.S. election cycle have piled on to make 2020 a year most of us will be glad to have in the rearview mirror.
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Introducing ReHarvest Partners: Quantified Ventures’ first subsidiary company
By Eric Letsinger, CEO
Those of you who know me are aware that I seldom miss an opportunity to trumpet the great work of the Quantified Ventures team. So you might be surprised that I have let a significant piece of company news fly somewhat under the radar...until now. I am thrilled to announce that last month we created Quantified Ventures’ first subsidiary company, ReHarvest Partners, to lead the transition to a more regenerative system of agricultural production by creatively deploying capital and structuring unique partnerships.
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Novel financing for a historic city plagued by flooding: the Hampton Environmental Impact Bond
On December 2, the $12 million Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) we’ve been designing with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the City of Hampton officially closed. By issuing the bond, the City matched financial innovation to the creativity found in its nature-based projects: a drainage ditch turned into a bioswale with native plants; a holding pond revamped for stormwater and water quality; a major transportation corridor elevated and protected against flooding.
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Big Problems Require Bold Solutions: Announcing a New Outcomes Fund to Support Mothers with Substance Use Disorder and Their Children
With a $5MM seed contribution from Humana, we are establishing the first-of-its-kind Family Focused Recovery (FFR) outcomes fund to sustainably scale an innovative Volunteers of America program model that serves mothers with substance use disorder and their children.
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Meet our 2020 Summer Interns
While it has been a summer internship experience unlike any other – “can you hear me now?” – Quantified Ventures is pleased to be able to host summer interns as previously planned. In this blog post we recognize our five undergraduate student summer interns and ask our three graduate student summer interns to share highlights of their Quantified Ventures experience thus far.
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Three Initial Actions to Advance Equity and Justice
At Quantified Ventures, we stand firmly with those whose voices are being marginalized as we strive for racial equity. The resounding calls for justice from citizens across the country compels us to reimagine our way forward. We will apply our greatest assets - our people and our action-orientation - to the causes of racial equity and social justice.
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On Earth Day (and Every Day) We Go Boldly Together
On the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Quantified Ventures seeks to address the damage of inaction and blaze new trails to advance mitigation, resilience, and adaptation efforts for the future. Our projects are increasing in diversity and expanding in scale, with the help of our partners.
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The Power of Partnership in Uncertain Times
While the Quantified Ventures team has retreated to the confines of our respective home offices, we continue the hard work of advancing solutions for some of our most intractable social and environmental challenges.
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Can Starbucks Save the Climate?
How should industries respond to the growing climate crisis? If the human race is going to survive, cities and companies must align with each other and other industries to establish sustainability commitments and relocate capital in a way that prioritizes environmental, social, and health outcomes.
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B the Change
On December 19, 2019, Quantified Ventures rang the bell on another major milestone for the company on its pathway of doing business for good by becoming a Certified B Corporation. This certification represents an external demonstration of our values in action.
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Pathways to a Sustainable Water Future
Our water challenges are only going to get worse as the climate changes. Preparing for these growing challenges and building resilience will require innovative solutions and big picture ideas.
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Dispatch from the Field: Kicking off the Search for Healthy Housing Programs in Detroit
Last week took me to Detroit, Michigan – a city I’d not visited prior to work on this initiative- and which I’m learning to love. Like many formerly thriving manufacturing hubs, Detroit has faced well-documented financial decline and disinvestment, with significant population loss and adversity in the last several decades.
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Quantified Ventures is working closely with WaterNow Alliance and their recently released Tap into Resilience Toolkit. Learn more and check it out!
Quantified Ventures is working closely with WaterNow Alliance and their recently released Tap into Resilience Toolkit. It's an interactive resource designed to help elected water leaders and utility management and staff realize cost-effective, localized water innovations within their communities.
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Pay for Success Legislation Moves Government to Fund What Works
For most state and local governments, the to-do list is long, and funding is short. But new legislation could unlock substantial new funding for social, health, and environmental programs. The Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) legislation, years in the making, was passed in 2018.
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Sharing Risk, Rewarding Outcomes: The Environmental Impact Bond
What is an Environmental Impact Bond? An Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) is an innovative financing tool that uses a Pay for Success approach to provide up-front capital from private investors for environmental projects, either to pilot a new approach whose performance is viewed as uncertain or to scale up a solution that has been tested in a pilot program.
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Marrying health services and human services: the role of health plans in improving health by addressing social needs
With social determinants of health top of mind for health plan leaders, the question of sustainable financing becomes critical. A new blog by our Director of Business Development, Brendan O’Connor.
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Helping data collaboratives finance institutional and culture change
Director Alison Rein participated in the 2nd annual All In: Data for Community Health meeting in Denver, Colorado. Here are her thoughts on collaboration, data, and financing critical health projects.
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Forging Sustainable and Effective Partnerships Between Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare: Insights and Opportunities
In 2017, Quantified Ventures, and its partner Meals on Wheels America, led the structuring of the world's first Pay for Success (PFS) project with a large Medicare Advantage (MA) plan as Payor.
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Unleashing Community Benefit Funds to Positively Impact Communities
Associate Emma Kloppenburg and intern Harrison Siegel address how Community Benefit funds can be used to proactively address health issues such as asthma.
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Championing Conservation Innovation in the Federal Government
Kari Cohen is the Director of the Conservation Innovations Team at USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Here is what he talked about with our CEO Eric Letsinger in a recent interview.
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