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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.