Wednesday, June 8, 1pm ET - Blockchain, NFTs, & Metaverse For Good | ASBN Live
Hear how our orgs and community can understand these new technologies and utilize them for good! This will be an exciting and informative interactive webinar with SVC former co-chair Gagan J Levy, our resident blockchain enthusiast, CEO of the creative agency Guru and CoFounder of Bamboo Asset Management dba Pink Panda.

He will be joined by an incredible group of leaders hailing from traditional finance that have jumped into this exciting space: Adam Carlton, expat senior traditional finance consultant and now CoFounder and CEO of Pink Panda; Rose Penelope Yee, chair of the social good advisory board for Pink Panda and CEO of Green Retirement, and Gene Truono, head of compliance for Pink Panda and former Chief Compliance Officer for Paypal amongst other compliance positions at JP Morgan Chase and American Express.

Wednesday, June 15, 1pm ET - Federal Contracting 101 | ASBN Live
The Federal Government buys more goods and services than any other organization on the planet. But being a government contractor isn't for the faint of heart. Fortunately, purpose-driven companies - B corps, PBCs and the like - are used to some of the complexities of doing good for the world while also making a profit. At this session, the leaders of three government contractors that are also certified B corporations (Fors Marsh, Rescue Agency, TCG) will walk you through the pluses and minuses of government work and will try to answer all your questions. If you've ever wanted to do business with the government, this is a good place to start.

Wednesday, June 22, 1pm ET - Reproductive Healthcare: Resources for Your Employees | ASBN Live
American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Wednesday, June 22nd at 1pm ET for Reproductive Healthcare: Resources for Your Employees. Dr. Sophia Yen (Pandia Health) and Shelley Alpern (Rhia Ventures) will present resources and answer questions on how you can support your employees in preparation for the loss of reproductive rights.

Thursday, June 23, 4pm ET - ASBN Members PRIDE Networking Happy Hour | ASBN Member Networking
American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Thursday, June 23rd at 4pm ET for a PRIDE Networking Happy Hour! Bring yourself & a refreshment as we get to know fellow LGBTQIA+ ASBN members and how we can support and work with one another. Jillian Gerstley, Manager of Investors Circle, will be moderating.   

Tuesday, June 28, 4pm ET - ASBN Member Town Hall | ASBN Member Event
American Sustainable Business Network invites members to join us Tuesday, June 28th at 4pm ET for an ASBN Member Town Hall. Hear our organizational updates and come with questions. If you want to submit a question in advance you'd like our leadership to address, please email [email protected].

Wednesday, June 29, 1pm ET - Socially Responsible Supply Chain Contracts | ASBN Live
Join the American Sustainable Business Network to learn about how to "enlist your contracts as allies" in pursuing your mission and achieving positive social impact from experts Sarah Dadush and Olivia Windham Stewart. In this webinar, you'll learn about a new toolkit on responsible business contracting developed by an American Bar Association working group. The toolkit is designed to improve the human rights performance of supply chain relationships, both domestic and international. Together, we'll gain insight into how to incorporate social impact into company DNA by codifying prosocial, shared-responsibility principles into your legal documents.

Wednesday, July 6, 1pm ET - Cultures of Compassion in the Twilight of a Hyper-Masculine Economy | ASBN Live
Join us for a heartfelt discussion between Reverend and Organizational Change professor Sean Harvey, author of the forthcoming book Warrior Compassion and JumpScale co-founder Daniel Roth. The session will explore evolving organizational landscapes through a lens of compassionate masculinity. Drawing on decades of experience working with both leaders and teams in traditional hyper-masculine office cultures as well as feminine leadership cultures, they will discuss how to build organizations where there is a level of psychological safety and trust for all people to become whole, and where cultures of compassion can thrive.

Wednesday, June 8, 1pm ET - CA Plastics Update: Respond to proposed SB54 language | Contact [email protected] to participate | Working Group

As a follow-up to the last discussion with Reed, we invite our members to a call on Wednesday at 10 am PT // 1 pm ET to get important updates on the Plastic Reduction Ballot Initiative with Reed at CalEEC. We will review the proposed compromise legislation in lieu of CA Plastic Reduction Ballot Initiative and come prepared to actively engage in making the proposal as strong as possible.

Thursday, June 9, 1pm ET - Livable Planet | Contact [email protected] to participate | Working Group

In this meeting Nancy Zamierowski, Luea Ritter and Logan Yonavjak will offer an introduction to Systems Sensing, a new way of thinking and making decisions, joining your inner and outer systems, activating and integrating your intuitive senses. Sierra Flanigan and (tentatively) Atossa Soltani will offer an update on securing permanent protection for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters and how you can get involved. Our previous presenters’ Jon Scott, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund, Nicolas Warren, ReVision Energy, and Shana Vida Gavron of Endangered Wild.Life to give an update on their projects. 

Thursday, June 9, 1pm ET - Regenerative Agriculture and Justice | Contact colton@asbnetwork.org to participate | Working Group

Harry Huntley from the Environmental Policy Innovation Center will be joining us to go over a proposed new farm bill program, a USDA Clean Water Outcomes Matching Program within the Regional Conservation Partnership Program that would provide incentives to states to adopt outcomes-based water quality funds. For the second part of the meeting, we will go over the draft/outline of the farm bill priorities memo.