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The Brief: Foundation investments in health equity through a diversity lens

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Inclusive Communities Foundations are putting racial equity at the center of impact investments in health. …

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Featured: Inclusive Communities

Foundations are putting racial equity at the center of impact investments in health. The end goal: Improve health and wellness in underserved communities. The strategy: Invest in and through the people with lived experiences in those communities. The California Wellness Foundation has put a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on its commitment to invest 100% of its $1 billion endowment to further its health and wellness mission. With its $200 million allocation for impact investments, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is addressing health equity by taking on racial injustices in community development finance. A pair of guest posts unpack strategies for improving the nation’s health and wellness by addressing racial inequity in the capital markets.

Dealflow: Natural Capital

BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America. Timberland Investment Group, part of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America timberland fund with $860 million in 2015. The newest fund, launched in 2020, raised $1.2 billion to invest in mature timberland assets in Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. Latin America, said BTG’s Gerrity Lansing, has “unique, secular attributes including ideal growing conditions and strong domestic markets for many forest products.” The group formed a partnership with The Nature Conservancy in 2021 to bridge the gap between demand from institutional investors for sustainable forestry investments and the supply of projects. The new fund has invested in five timberland assets that TIG will manage long-term. TIG manages a total of three million acres of timberland in the US and Latin America.

Overheard: African Private Capital Association

Catalyzing local investment and liquidity models to meet Africa’s sustainable finance needs. This past month’s torrential flooding in Kenya, heatwaves in West Africa and drought in Southern Africa show a continent on the frontlines of climate change. Extreme weather events are exacerbating Africa’s sustainable development finance gap of more than $200 billion a year. “It’s crucial to reassess traditional investment strategies,” Zain Latiff of small business private lender TLG Capital said at last week’s African Private Capital Association conference in Johannesburg. ImpactAlpha contributor Lucy Ngige rounded up the highlights:

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Opportunity Finance Network is hiring a senior vice president of membership in the Baltimore-Washington area… The American Heart Association seeks a vice president and managing director for its social impact fund... Shareholder Rights Groups seeks a remote project director... CrossBoundary Group is looking for an associate or senior associate for the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica. 

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