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Building Relationships with Funders: Tips from Switzer Fellows in Philanthropy Panel

In November 2021, the Switzer Network held a panel to bring together grant-seeking and grant-making Switzer Fellows to demystify philanthropy, network and learn from each other. Here are a few tips for building relationships with funders that Roger Perez and Jen Sokolove shared during the event.
December 7, 2022
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Deiner launches the Franklin: digital eDNA token to scale up biodiversity monitoring

Kristy Deiner's organization SimplexDNA has published the Franklin: Digital eDNA tokens to better preserve life on Earth. The white paper outlines their Proof-of-Life Protocol” for biodiversity tokenisation.
November 23, 2022
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Anne Perrault publishes in Science on trickle-down climate risk regulation

Perrault writes in Science: "assuming that protecting big banks will protect other, smaller financial entities and the financial system more broadly obscures the financial crisis that is already underway and inadequately responds to scientific evidence on distinctive features of climate risk and impacts."
September 28, 2022
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Henriques co-coordinates #FindYourSeafoodWeek with Local Catch Network

The campaign aims to "promote local and regional values-based small scale seafood businesses across North America,” Paloma Henriques told WABI news.
August 29, 2022
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Myhre speaks on carbon accounting and climate justice in Nori podcast

Sarah Myhre was interviewed in the Carbon Removal Newsroom Podcast with Nori on Carbon Accounting and Climate Justice in July 2022.
July 27, 2022
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Lord tells stories of women’s experiences as oyster producers

Natalie Lord has launched the new website, A Rising Tide?, highlighting women’s experiences as oyster producers. The project is the first case study to analyze gender in Maine and New Hampshire's aquaculture industry through visual storytelling. Its goal is to share the photographic and narrative data the research participants collected on their experiences owning and operating an oyster farm in Maine and New Hampshire.
July 27, 2022
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Ross Feehan

2022 Fellow
Ross has led supply-chain operations for Doctors Without Borders and worked on responsible sourcing and recycling for Apple’s global supply chain. A citizen of both the U.S. and Ireland, he roots his sustainability work in Celtic, Ignatian, and monastic spiritual traditions.
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Miner joins Climate X as Climate Science Advisor

Climate X aims to enable global resilience through quantifying the potential physical risks and impacts, and delivering this in a way that is easily actionable to decision-makers.
May 5, 2022
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Embracing Limits: A Case for Economic Thresholds to Mitigate the Global Climate, Biodiversity, and Equity Crises

"Inequity is a choice that we make as a global society through the economic systems that we hold up as legitimate," Paloma Henriques argues in her articles for Spire's 2022 issue on minimum and maximum economic thresholds.
May 5, 2022
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Suiseeya to speak at FP Virtual Climate Summit

Foreign Policy's second annual Climate Summit focuses on The Transition to Net Zero | Making Good on COP26 Commitments. Kimberly Marion Suiseeya will present on Fostering a Just Transition - Ensuring Marginalized Communities Have a Seat at the Table.
April 18, 2022