The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, face serious challenges over funding if they are to achieve their objectives by 2030. America’s editor William Dowell writes that a Swiss-backed initiative, Project 1800, could not only solve many of the SDG’s financial difficulties but also dramatically improve the funding equation for other development projects. The new concept shifts the focus to …
With Audrey Selian and Jeff Tuller As the impact investing community processes the shuttering of ImpactUS, it’s time to acknowledge a painful reality: when it comes to building the definitive impact investment platform, we’ve dug too many graves. In the world of online marketplaces and platforms, system design is the equivalent of “location, location, location” in the real estate world. In order to move the proverbial …
Conscious Media Company publishes an annual list of women in conscious business, and this year Astrid Scholz, along with Jennifer Brandel, Aniya Williams and Mara Zepeda — co-convenors of Dazzlecon — were recognised for their contributions. An extract from this article appears below. Brandel, Scholtz, Williams, and Zapeda are all co-founders and CEOs of their own enterprises that each exist …
Sphaera was invited to attend a Silicon Valley roundtable with GAVI – the Global Vaccine Alliance – to explore how technology can support them in reaching the currently unreachable 240 million non-immunized children in the Global South. Catherine Cheney from Devex took interviews with some of the delegates, including Astrid Scholz. Astrid’s interview appears below. “While it seems clear why …