Your Money and the Amazon Forest | Leonardo Letelier | TEDxAmazonInvestorCoalition

How can personal finance help the Amazon rainforest? Consider spending, donating and especially investing. How can you support good companies and avoid bad ones? Forest friendly economic development in the Brazilian Amazon is a special case. Diverse financial instruments play key roles, ranging from patient capital to "first lost" guarantees. As founder of SITAWI Finance for Good, Leonardo Letelier discusses the organization's report on Amazon forest impact investing (http://www.tinyurl.com/amazoninvesting). Key challenges include prioritizing communities, ensuring long term purchase contracts of Amazon produce, considering carbon credits and lots of complexity. New solutions involve crowd lending to Amazon bio-economy companies with blended capital and technical assistance for entrepreneurs.

To learn more, visit:
SITAWI Finance for Good: http://www.sitawi.net
Amazon Investor Coalition: http://www.amazoninvestor.org Leonardo Letelier is the founder and CEO of SITAWI-Finance for Good (www.sitawi.net), a nonprofit organization that develops financial solutions for the social sector in Brazil by pioneering social loans and donor advised funds. It is currently developing a product to support nonprofit mergers.

Leonardo founded SITAWI in order to reduce economic inequities in Brazil by increasing the capital available to for- and non-profit social enterprises, and also by improving their capacity to manage their own financial resources. SITAWI develops financial solutions for the social sector by aiming to multiply the capital available to Brazilian social organizations and by supporting their expansion and improving projects.

SITAWI currently provides two types of products: social enterprise loans at below-market rates packaged with strategic advice, and social funds management, a donor-advised fund service for philanthropists and large corporations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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