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• Social Enterprise Spotlight Series: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Keap Candles & More

  • When
    12 Sep 2019
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. 25 Broadway, 12th Floor, NYC

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  Impact Capital Forum is pleased to host this showcase with three New York based social entrepreneurs. We are committed to promoting new business initiatives with a positive impact through our Social Enterprise Spotlight Series.
  
  This night features the founders of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Keap candles, and other businesses. Come engage and learn the path forward for these scalable, social enterprises. During our panel discussion, we will focus on the key areas of opportunities and challenges on their path to growth, their relationships with private and public investors, and the support needed from their communities.

  Our social entrepreneurs include:

  Robert Lee, Co-Founder & CEO of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. Rescuing Leftover Cuisine was founded in 2013. It targets a niche gap that is not being served by the larger existing organizations who have a minimum food donation requirement of 150 lbs. They use technology to facilitate the handling of excess food, and localize issues into sets of communities that can help sustain themselves. 

  Harry Doull, Founder of Keap. Keap is a B Corp certified candle company offering its products via a monthly subscription. The candles offer unique, proprietary scents developed by the world's foremost independent master perfumer, Christophe Laudamiel and delivers them with a emphasis on regenerative agriculture and circular consumption.  By using regenerative agriculture techniques, Keap’s wax supplier has created a palm wax as a by-product of an oil refining process, and in turn, Keap has found a way to turn that into an excellent candle.  On the circularity side, Keap's long-term vision is to be a zero-waste company and to inspire individuals and other companies to do the same. 

  *Third Entrepreneur to Be Announced

  Agenda:

  6:00-6:30 PM   Registration/Networking

  6:30-7:30 PM   Panel Discussion

  7:30-8:30 PM   Networking

  Event Location:

  Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. 

  25 Broadway, 12th Floor, 

  New York, NY 10004

  Please be sure to bring a government-issued photo ID to enter the building. 

  
  

  
  

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• Springboard Your Career with an Advanced Degree in Sustainability and Impact Investing

  • When
    23 Sep 2019
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    NYU Wagner Graduate School, 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor, NYC

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  Explore how an advanced degree program can propel your career in sustainability, impact investing and philanthropy. Learn all about Sustainability Masters programs (MBA, JD, MA) and what they entail directly from the esteemed professors who teach the classes.

  Join us for a lively discussion led by esteemed professors from NYU, Columbia, Bard and the University of Pennsylvania who can address your questions about their curricula. Find out how their master’s programs will enhance your skills and give you a competitive edge in the marketplace.  Meet and network with faculty for an insider's view. The goal of the program will be to share with prospective students (predominantly mid-level professionals) information on the various sustainable investing programs/higher educational opportunities.

  Speakers Include:

  • Carolyn Allwin, Co-Founder, Recap Investing (Moderator) 
  • Scott Taitel, NYU Wagner 
  • Eban Goodstein, Bard MBA Sustainability
  • Curtis Probst, Columbia
  • John Tobin-de la Puente, Cornell
    
  • Greg Hagin, University of Pennsylvania + Wharton MBA

  Agenda:

  • 5:30-6:00pm Registration/Networking
  • 6:00-7:00pm Program
  • 7:00-7:30pm Networking with light food & beverage

  Entry:

  To encourage the growth of the impact sector and its committed participants, this event is free of charge for all attendees. Please register in advance so that we may prepare accordingly.
  

  Please also consider becoming an ongoing member of Impact Capital Forum to gain access to our diverse community of impact professionals and and range of sector programming. 

  Event Location:

  Thanks to NYU for hosting this cross-institution event.
  

  NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  295 Lafayette Street -- 2nd Floor
  New York, NY  1001

  
  

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• Working Group Breakfast - Opportunity Zone Investing (October)

  • When
    09 Oct 2019
  •  
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
  • Location
    Orrick, 51 W 52nd St, NYC

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  Showcasing Private Equity and Investing in Startups in Opportunity Zones

  This event is the fourth gathering of ICF's working group about Opportunity Zones. The working group's members will discuss early stage venture capital and SME investments that can optimize their Opportunity Zones investment activity.

  This Working Group session will showcase investors who are uniquely experienced in the merged field of non-real estate investments and opportunity zones. These investors include:
  

  • Vijar Kohli, co-Founder and Portfolio Manager at Golden Door Asset Management. They are best known for identifying technological efficiencies within their portfolio companies. Prior to founding Golden Door Asset Management, Vijar was a successful prime brokerage analyst at JPMorgan Chase managing capital structures and allocations of over $1 billion for a number of hedge funds. Vijar is a graduate of Seton Hall University with degrees in Accounting, Economics, and Finance, and studied at Princeton University.
  • Brian Phillips, Managing Partner, The Pearl Fund, the nation's first tax-free venture capital fund, with a focus on opportunity zones. Brian has been an early-stage entrepreneur, a global expert on economic development by using entrepreneurship, an advisor to Ivy League facility on how to convert their inventions into viable businesses, and an intrapreneur in several global organizations. As a founding CEO he has raised over $33M in venture capital. Mr. Phillips has been an advisor on entrepreneurship to global firms like Goldman Sachs, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, IBM and Arthur Young, as well as charitable organizations focused on entrepreneurship like the Aspen Institute, the Clinton Foundation, TechoServe and Endeavor Global.
    

  What are Opportunity Zones?

  Opportunity Zones have emerged as a transformative economic development tool, providing a new incentive to place much-needed capital into distressed communities. Opportunity Zones also offer investors opportunities to defer and/or reduce their tax liabilities when committing capital within designated areas. A helpful guide to Opportunity Zone investing is here.

  The working group is open to new members. It is relevant to those investing in Opportunity Zones - or supporting such investment - including foundations, financial institutions, impact investing intermediaries, fund managers, investors, attorneys, advisors, and real estate developers.

  Location

  Orrick - 51 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019.

  Breakfast will be served.

  The event is co-sponsored by Impact Capital Forum and Orrick, a law firm and leading advisor in the Technology, Energy & Infrastructure, and Financial sectors globally.

  How to Register

  When you visit this event's registration web page, you have the choice of registering as a new or existing Impact Capital Forum ‘member’; this includes access to all future working group meetings, participation in electronic communications of the working group, as well as access to other ICF impact sector events. To become a member, visit our Membership web page. There is also an option to register for the breakfast as a ‘non-member’, which includes access to just the one event.

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