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October, 2012
In This Issue
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WELCOME to the Heartland E-Journal, a regular digital newsletter of the Heartland Website that will incorporate the best features of the site and of the Heartland Web Blog. The E-Journal, like the Blog, will feature news, opinion and analysis, and success stories related to responsible investment (RI).
An earlier rendition of the E-Journal, which ran for almost a decade, featured prestigious writers, authors and investment experts on pension funds and targeted investments, the economy and finance, manufacturing and housing, and similar topics.
The new HCS E-Journal will also cover broad aspects of the real economy we live and work in. The following featured blogs are the most recent the HCS team would like to share with you. A special shout-out to the AFL-CIO HIT, USW, Blue Wolf Capital and our own SVA for generous first year contributions to re-launch Heartland!
In the meantime, we welcome your contributions -- please send us ideas and articles that might be of interest. Let us know what you think.
Tom Croft, Heartland Managing Director
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| Heartland's Successful Four-City Road Show
by Tom Croft and Marco Trbovich
| The Heartland Network launched a series of regional Responsible Investment (RI) Forums in 2012 to spur new investments to address capital gaps in the economy. Under Heartland's banner, four RI Forums were held in Atlanta, LA, Philadelphia and Detroit, cities hard hit by the Great Recession. Led by a core network of innovative investment professionals, the forums were robust roundtables that brought together over 130 fund managers and capital stewards, labor and business leaders, and  community and green jobs advocates from around the U.S. The forums examined opportunities and challenges posed by investing in real and clean economy sectors, with a hard focus on their promise of creating good jobs.Read more on the RI Forums to "Rebuild America"  |
| A Deep Dive and Lessons Learned by Tom Croft and Marco Trbovich |
The forums were stimulating and brought dedicated investment and economy leaders around a common table to talk about the important work of rebuilding America. In the process, the prospect of exciting new partnerships were realized. Here's a short re-cap of the Heartland barnstorming tour:
The Atlanta forum (2/22) featured Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Rutherford Seydel, Ted Turner's son-in-law, who are driving Atlanta's Better Building Challenge (BBC), a major retrofit and energy efficiency project for downtown Atlanta, involving 40 buildings owned by the largest corporations, universities and the city (including the airport, possibly). Mayor Reed urged forum attendees to consider investing in the Better Buildings Challenge, the city's retrofitting initiative to create a more sustainable economy, improved air and water quality and job growth. Read more on the tour
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| Connecting The Dots - America's New Infrastructure Bankers by John Williams | |
Introduction to
"Connecting the Dots" a new Heartland Blog Series
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This blog series authored by John Williams, Chairman & CEO of Impact Infrastructure, LLC and his associates is entitled, "Connecting the Dots." The series will focus on exploring questions and answers that fund trustees, consultants and institutional investors will need to ask if they are considering investments to rebuild America's infrastructure. The goal of the series is to expose investment managers and fiduciaries to techniques that are being used to reveal and track the full value of high impacting projects in the built and natural environment. There is great interest in investments in infrastructure, public buildings and ecosystem goods and services. This series will guide readers through the latest developments as to tools and frameworks including performance metrics, risk analysis protocols and value-based rating systems that are advancing toward standardization and application in the project vetting process.
For More Information contact:
John F. Williams, Chairman & CEO, John.Williams@ImpactInfrastructureLLC.com
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America's New Infrastructure Bankers Seven years ago, destruction from Hurricane Katrina included levee and floodwall collapses and ultimately caused more than 1,800 deaths. The importance of critical infrastructure was never clearer and the massive cost of ignoring it  more evident. The destruction, loss of life, impacts to commerce and the cost of recovery were staggering. Thankfully, the federal government was able to bankroll billions of dollars in recovery and infrastructure replacements
Read more on the New Infrastructure Bankers.
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Heartland Capital Strategies fosters a "Community of Practice" that aims to steward responsible investments in the real economy.
Inspired by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Heartland Capital Strategies (HCS) promotes investments and projects essential for revitalizing America's productive economy and renewing community prosperity.
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