by josiahmwd | Apr 23, 2019 | Key Sectors
This month, we sat down with our founder and CEO, Richard Lackey, to talk about the role that blended finance plays in emerging markets. Can blended finance be part of the solution in getting more finance to where it is needed most? Absolutely. In fact, to build...
by josiahmwd | Nov 24, 2018 | International
This month, World Food Bank CEO Richard Lackey and GFE Investor Justin Culver visited Thakara-Nithi County in Kenya, where they were heartily welcomed and given a personal tour of local food systems and producers by County Governor Muthomi Njuki. Governor Njuki is a...
by josiahmwd | Aug 28, 2018 | World Food Bank Team
Straight out of college from the University of North Texas, Alicia Miller moved to Denver to begin her career raising capital for commercial real estate investments. Working in multiple positions in the finance industry over the course of several years, Alicia was...
by josiahmwd | Aug 10, 2018 | International
On August 1, just seven months into the calendar year, our planet passed the point at which it is able to sustainably keep up with the population’s demands for natural resources. Known as Earth Overshoot Day, this milestone prompted one of the world’s...
by josiahmwd | Aug 7, 2018 | News
We are excited to announce that our CEO Richard Lackey has been invited to join the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS Upgrade Working Group! IRIS is a data and research catalog of generally-accepted performance metrics used by a majority of impact investors. IRIS...