S7E18 - How to Actively Invest Philanthropy and Save the (Water) World?

with 🎙️ Sean Davis, founder and managing director of Merton Capital Partners, adjunct professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University, and Author of "Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck."  💧 Merton Capital Partners develops innovative investment strategies to unlock philanthropy's potential by incentivizing corporations to generate large-scale good in their core businesses. What we covered: 💰 What philanthropic Capital Investment actually is, and what it can do to solve water challenges  💸 How, as surprising as it is, giving philanthropic money away isn’t that straightforward in the absence of suited dealmakers  3️⃣ How philanthropists can build a third path beyond traditional market money and grant funds  🎛️ How the right approach is to blend sources to aim for the maximal impact  ⌛ How it may take time for that new approach to get widely adopted, and how it is comparable with the 80’s Investment Funds status quo  🏠 Affordable Housing, Broken Water Utilities, Inadequate Wastewater Treatment, 21 million people betrayed by their tap, Increasing Awareness… and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥           ➡️ Send your warm regards to Sean on LinkedIn.  ➡️ Check Merton Capital Partner's website  ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the entire article on philanthropic capital investment, including teasers and a full transcript on the (don't) Waste Water website!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.