TODAY: Monday, February 13, 1pm ET - Clean Energy & Infrastructure: Impact & Opportunities
Join the American Sustainable Business Network and experts to learn about how funding opportunities in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and the Inflation Reduction Act will dramatically change the energy landscape. The nearly $369 billion in climate and clean energy provisions in the new law include grants and tax credits that will bring down emissions and provide businesses with the certainty they need to make long-term investments in clean energy.

Speakers:
- Joshua Peck, Senior Policy Advisor, White House Office of Clean Energy Innovation & Implementation
- Brian Mahar, U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO)
- Mayda Sanchez Shingler, Executive Director, Ohio Sustainable Business Council
- David Levine, President, the American Sustainable Business Network
- Michael Green, Director of Climate & Energy, the American Sustainable Business Network
- Stephanie Howe, Director, Energy Programs and Director of Human Capital, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, Ohio University
- Katie Harris, Legislative Director, BlueGreen Alliance

Wednesday, February 15, 1pm ET - Cultivating Change: Accelerating the Shift to Purpose-Driven Business
The American Sustainable Business Network has always led from the front, showcasing values-based leadership, social ventures, corporate social responsibility, and the 'triple bottom line.' Today, as 'purpose' goes mainstream, we have a profound opportunity to reshape the way the world does business.

Mike Rowlands, CEO of long-time ASBN member Junxion Strategy, will be joined by Coro Strandberg, Canada's leading thinker on the role of purpose in business for this inspiring conversation about the evolution of purpose-based business, leading practices you can implement, and the potential of purpose to shape an economy that serves the common good.
 

Wednesday, February 15, 3pm ET - Circular Economy | Contact [email protected] to join

The Circular Economy working group brings together a wide variety of key stakeholders to tackle the waste crisis, especially plastic waste, in the United States. Environmentally-focused organizations and business leaders from across the nation collaborate to help guide our Packaging Waste Reduction campaign, with a focus on both federal and state level policies.

Wednesday, February 15, 5:30pm - 7:30pm ET, Farm to People, Bushwick, Brooklyn - Just and Sustainable Economy Gathering- NYC 
Join policymakers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors who are developing and advocating for solutions that support an equitable, regenerative, and just economy that benefits all - people and planet.

Locally-sourced snacks will be served alongside a cash bar.

This event is open to ASBN members, their guests, and folks interested in learning more about the American Sustainable Business Network. Registration closed.

Thursday, February 16, 12-2pm ET - National + NY Chapter Meeting
| Contact [email protected] to participate

Investors Circle has catalyzed the deployment over $275M into impactful early stage businesses since its inception in 1987. Each year IC members invest in dozens of innovative entrepreneurs who are working to solve major social and environmental problems. Join the Investors Circle monthly National Meeting as we review two presentations from innovative and impactful entrepreneurs. 

You must be an SEC-Accredited investor to participate in IC.

Wednesday, March 15, 1pm ET - How to Align Ownership Interests with your Business’s Mission
Join us for an interactive webinar with RSF Social Finance CEO Jasper van Brakel and Natalie Reitman-White, ownership & governance design advisor at Alternative Ownership Advisors.

For many growing, purpose-driven ventures, the choice between liquidity for the business or for owners on the one hand, and loyalty to a social or environmental mission on the other, is as real as it is problematic. And the stakes in addressing this conundrum go much deeper than the concerns of individual companies.

During this webinar, van Brakel and Reitman-White will talk about the advantages of transitioning to a mission-protective ownership structure, introduce several different models for alternative ownership and show how they play out in real life by offering examples of businesses that have employed each with success.