As of January 1, 2024, Tee Thomas will be Quantified Ventures CEO and Eric Letsinger will transition to a Board Chair role. Tee is a longtime leader in the water and climate finance sector with a focus on community health and environmental justice.

We outline an approach to enable Managed Care Plans and Community Based Organizations to work creatively and collaboratively toward mutually-beneficial member health outcomes. In this framework, sustainability, often a long-term goal for the partnership, instead becomes a central tenet from the outset.  

Cities around the globe are racing to improve their resilience and adapt to climate-related challenges. Too often, conversations about how to pay for resilience initiatives are delayed until the tail end of resilience strategy development, which may be too late to make program development decisions that can unlock additional funding and financing.   

Every 5 years the U.S. Congress updates critical legislation to set policy and funding levels for a variety of federal agriculture, conservation, forestry, and nutrition programs. Known as “the Farm Bill,” this must-pass legislation, with significant implications for the U.S. Forest Service and rural outdoor economies, faces headwinds in a divided Congress. 

While funding for mega-deals appears plentiful, preparing urban sites for emerging new technologies, the re-shoring of industrial companies and the attraction of foreign direct investment requires a careful blending of public, private, and civic capital. The Cincinnati Jobs Bond should serve as a blueprint for other cities with the right attributes and strategic focus.

In this blog, we shine a spotlight on the challenges faced by manufactured home communities (MHC) and and recommend 5 actions we should take to improve the quality of life for the MHC residents of today and tomorrow. 

A new partnership between Quantified Ventures and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service National Partnerships Office is advancing business, governance, and financing strategies for high-potential outdoor recreation and land management initiatives in and around national forests. REI Co-op’s commitment of matching support in 2023 unlocked Forest Service partnership funding for a suite of five projects in the first year of the partnership.

We recommend two key actions for the U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to realize its full potential to reduce emissions, mobilize private capital, and address historic environmental inequalities.
1. Broaden GGRF Scope to Enable Financing of Nature-Based Projects
2. Capitalize a National Green Bank and Empower it to Leverage the Full Array of Funding Opportunities

The time is ripe for community-based service providers to expand their partnerships, programs, and impact through a focus on the value they create for the community and individuals as opposed to the cost associated with service provision. This blog provides an overview of three health sector payment trends and the related opportunities for community-based service providers to enhance their impact by diversifying and expanding revenue.

People are healthier when they have access to clean water and natural infrastructure amenities. Identifying the population health benefits of public infrastructure projects opens the door to more public-private partnerships – offering private actors an opportunity to finance solutions that close budget gaps for public infrastructure AND drive measurable environmental and health improvements. 

Our CEO Eric Letsinger recaps 2022 highlights at Quantified Ventures with a focus on three categories:
1.     What’s working? Let’s double down on it.
2.     What’s adjacent to our successes? Let’s invest in some of these new areas.
3.     What’s on the horizon? Let’s get smart on a few of these areas now.

We need locally-driven solutions, public-private collaboration, and innovative financing to address the water crisis in the Western United States. We outline our work with several partners in the West and Southwest U.S. to do just that - including our efforts with the Edwards Aquifer Authority in Texas to create a new type of cost-effective, flexible groundwater easement for the aquifer.