Heron Soundbites

We’re back with Episode Two of the Presidential Podcast where we talk to Dana Bezerra about placing community agency front and center in our work.

Heron is excited to launch our 2019 Presidential Podcast! In 2018, we welcomed Dana Bezerra as the new president of the Heron Foundation, and we shifted our focus to working at the intersection of communities and capital markets. Now, following her one-year anniversary, we've asked Dana to reflect on what she's learned throughout her time at Heron, and give us a glimpse of where the foundation is going next. Reflecting on the role of power in the traditional investment universe, we’re thinking about a new investment process that places communities front and center.

David Levine, President and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council, on bringing sustainable businesses together to drive policy change.

T00: Tom Mitchell, Cambridge Associates by The Heron Foundation

Raúl Pomares

T100: Brent Kessel, Abacus Wealth Partners by The Heron Foundation

Toni Johnson of Mission OutLoud sits down with Heron's Dana Bezerra to discuss Net Contribution and what that actually means.

Toni Johnson of Mission Out Loud, sits down with Heron's Clara Miller to discuss her latest letter to the field.

Toni Johnson sits down with Matt Enstice, head of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Organization, a Heron grantee, to talk about BNMC's impact in the local community.

Gabi Zolla from CAEL discusses the ways that they are changing the practices of workplaces and schools to better accommodate adult learners.

Jesus Gerena of the Family Independence Initiative talks about their approach to community development, supporting the efforts of families in poverty with data.

Toni Johnson in discussion with Jennifer Pryce of the Calvert Foundation, on building communities and growing small business.

Maggie Grieve of Success Measures discusses a collaborative approach to building powerful metrics and serving more than 600 community-based organizations.

Maggie McCullough of PolicyMap discusses how organizations and individuals can use data to understand their impact on a community level.

Jennifer Tescher of CFSI sits down with Toni Johnson to discuss how the financial industry is learning to evaluate its own success by measuring its impacts on consumers’ financial health.

Toni Johnson spoke with Tamara Draut of Demos about her new book, the shifting demographics and conditions of the working class and upcoming work from Demos.

Toni Johnson sat down with the Housing Partnership Network's Tom Bledsoe to discuss HPN's work in places like New Orleans and the use of enterprise capital.

T00: Thomas Van Dyck, RBC Wealth Management by The Heron Foundation

interview with Patricia from Veris.

Toni Johnson talks with Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab, on the topic of social entrepreneurship and its unexpected heroes.

Tom Mitchell, Managing Director at Cambridge Associates by The Heron Foundation

Francis Byrd, CEO of Byrd Governance Advisory by The Heron Foundation

Toni Johnson joins Kristin Hull, Director of Nia Global Solutions to discuss their approach to investing for greater social and financial outcomes.

Teresa Erikson of the Northern Plains Resource Council frames the impact of a declining coal industry on the communities dependent on their success.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and President of PolicyLink by The Heron Foundation

Sonia Kowal of Zevin Asset Management talks about the future of the impact space and punishment profiteering among public companies.

Shamez Alibhai of Cheyne Capital discusses his work in investing in socially responsible real estate and overcoming the common prejudice that the finance sector is not in the business of creating impactful social change.

Matthew Weatherley-White discusses the growth of impact investing and transcending the embedded tribalism of public companies and capital markets by initiating impactful conversations.

Heron's Rodney Christopher discusses the importance of unrestricted revenue and offers thought son the overhead question.

Ross Baird offers insights into capital inequality and how Village Capital seeks investment opportunities beyond the usual suspects.

Gil Crawford talks about MicroVest, sustainable banking and the real economy.

Toni Johnson, VP of Knowledge & Influence at Heron, chats with Robynn Shrader, CEO of National Cooperative Grocers on how a co-op grocer works, the value of data sharing and future plans for NCG.

Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds discusses his organization's mission, focus on organic food, green technologies and future plans.

On a TalkPoverty radio interview, Clara Miller discusses why “business as usual” is no longer an option. As part of a Labor Day special,TalkPoverty Radio interviewed a series of experts around the issue of labor unions, poverty and philanthropy. Steve Kreisberg, Director of Collective Bargaining, spoke about the importance of unions while Terrence McCoy of The Washington Post discussed his findings of how companies benefit from lead-poisoned, poor black residents of Baltimore.Also on the show was Saqib Bhatti, Director of the ReFund America Project, who revealed the astronomical fees that cities pay for financial services. The show's final expert was Heron president Clara Miller, who talked about the foundation and why it decided to "go all in."