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Janine Shea

Global Impact Investing Network - 0 views

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shared by Janine Shea on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
  • A rapidly growing supply of capital is seeking placement in impact investments across geographies, sectors, and asset classes, with a wide range of return expectations.
  • This investment interest is sparking the emergence of a new industry that operates in the largely uncharted area between philanthropy and a singular focus on profit-maximization.
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  • Private equity funds
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      Janine Shea on 29 Nov 12
       
      HUGE! The exact market inefficiency I've been saying (poor matching of capital supply to investment opportunities) is the considerable roadblock preventing the proliferation of sustainable development
  • Prominent family offices are actively seeking investment partnerships that can help them source, vet, and execute impact investment deals in sectors ranging from sustainable agriculture to healthcare to urban infrastructure.Private foundations are seeking to partner with investment banks and development finance institutions to make impact investments in areas related to their social missions.
  • Despite this momentum, the weakness of market mechanisms (such as rating agencies, market clearinghouses, syndication facilities, investment consultants) creates debilitating inefficiency that hampers investment. The nascent industry remains beset by inefficiencies and distortions that currently limit its impact and threaten its future trajectory: Investors are largely unable to work together effectively given a general confusion of terminology. This limits investors' ability to share knowledge and co-invest, which perpetuates inefficiency and fragmentation in the field. The absence of basic market infrastructure, like standards for measuring and benchmarking performance, constrains impact and capital flows.
  • Clients of leading private banks and pension funds are calling on their investment managers to offer impact investment options.
  • The combination of these factors - barriers to information flows and collaboration, a lack of infrastructure, and an underdeveloped ecosystem of intermediaries and services providers - threatens the evolution of the impact investing industry and, ultimately, its ability to realize its potential for social and environmental impact
Janine Shea

Strategies for Unemployed Architects | Recession & Recovery | Architectural Record - 0 views

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shared by Janine Shea on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • finessing her resume and portfolio, scouring the Web for job openings, networking at full-throttle. She even printed her own business cards.
  • letter of recommendation
  • assemble their portfolio and resume immediately. The longer one waits, the more difficult the task becomes. “Do it the minute you get laid off
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  • a standout resume is vital.
  • “You need to separate yourself from the pack.”
  • Job hunters should also reach out to everyone they know—friends, former coworkers, old classmates, consultants, contractors.
  • spending up to 10 hours a day hunting for a position
  • The occasional job opening she does spot typically requires five-plus years of experience. “Getting a job is harder and harder,” she says. “There are fewer and fewer jobs.”
Janine Shea

creative class struggle - 0 views

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shared by Janine Shea on 30 Dec 12 - Cached
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      Janine Shea on 30 Dec 12
       
      Serve the Creative Class and the cities looking to attract them, but through SUSTAINABLE development so you don't create these mutually exclusive, inequitable scenarios that are not only morally conflicting with our values & brand ideal but also potentially obstructive to our business goals
  • Creative People? Collaborative Spaces? Innovative Places? According to the event’s website – politicians, private consultants, architects, community development advocates, culture workers, and public space activists are meeting to plan the future of urban policy.
  • Hamilton Joins the Fight Against the Creative City!
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  • Check out the great new flyer from Hamiltonians Against Neighborhood Displacement (HAND) about how creative city policies are causing displacement in Hamilton, Ontario.  If you are interested in contacting them please let us know.
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