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0Our Impact Climate Finance Health and Human Services SDG MAP What’s Next Download Impact Report PDF Open MenuOur Impact Climate Finance Health and Human Services SDG MAP What’s Next Download Impact Report PDF Open MenuFolder: Our Impact Back Climate Finance Health and Human Services SDG MAP What’s Next Download Impact Report PDF 2023 Impact Report Solve Bold, Transform Tomorrow As Quantified Ventures enters its 10th year, we celebrate our impact to date and re-affirm our commitment to work with partners to design, capitalize, and scale durable solutions that drive meaningful environmental and social impact . In our early years, we focused on innovative, first-of-a-kind deals and transactions. As you will find in this Impact Report, in recent years we added a layer of intentionality around organizational and community capacity building. This focus has enabled a wider array of philanthropic, private, and public organizations to grow the pipeline of impact-oriented projects, replicate our outcomes-based models, and deploy solutions for broader impact. We continue to help our partners think bigger, get initiatives unstuck, assemble blended capital stacks, and create novel ways to deliver better outcomes for the well-being of people and planet! Bold Solutions Dawn of a New Era: A leadership transition presents an opportunity to reflect on achievements and lessons learned while setting new, ambitious goals for the future. As we prepare for Tee Thomas to assume the role of CEO at Quantified Ventures on January 1, 2024, we both celebrate the legacy of our past and ignite excitement for the bright future that lies ahead. Celebrating Our Achievements: During our first 10 years, QV emerged as a trailblazer – creating market-driven solutions that catalyze big impact in the climate, health, and outdoor sectors. The team’s notable achievements include: Environmental Impact Bonds : Pioneering the way we finance stormwater, flood mitigation, and green infrastructure solutions, we laid the groundwork for new ways to pay for nature-based solutions to create more equitable, resilient cities. Soil and Water Outcomes Fund : Through this scalable facility, we’ve incentivized farmers to adopt conservation agriculture practices on hundreds of thousands of acres, playing a pivotal role in tangibly improving agriculture’s impact on downstream water quality and greenhouse gas emissions. Outdoor Recreation and Economic Development : Recognizing the immense potential of recreation infrastructure to serve as a rural economic driver and how time spent outdoors improves physical and mental health, our endeavors have breathed new vitality into many rural communities. Health Outcomes Fund : We established a new, non-profit lending infrastructure and product line designed to deliver patient, concessionary capital to non-profit organizations focused on improving the health of people and planet. Value-Based Financing Models : Creating new outcomes-based financing mechanisms to build capacity for evidence-based human and social service delivery – including substance use disorder treatment for pregnant and parenting mothers, and medical respite for individuals experiencing homelessness – thereby improving health outcomes, addressing health disparities, and lowering costs at scale. Dorvie : With the launch of Dorvie, a healthy aging tech platform, we’re providing independent living home services that give older adults more peace of mind and support to age comfortably in their own homes. Bosland Growth : Our reforestation initiative profitably plants trees on abandoned mine lands across Appalachia. We pay landowners 100% of the cost of reforestation to yield healthy, new forests that sequester carbon, provide natural habitat for important species, and improve degraded lands. Embracing the Explorer Spirit: At Quantified Ventures, we have always been willing to take calculated risks, engage like-minded change makers, and adapt quickly to new realties discovered along the way. We have built a team that ventures into uncharted terrain, crafts replicable pathways to impact, and creates avenues for durable growth. Then we serve as guides for early adopters seeking a brighter future for their communities and ecosystems. This is where Tee comes in…a systems thinker, a fearless builder of the possible, and an inspiring leader. With Tee at the helm, QV is poised to drive greater impact, fulfilling the immense promise of the social impact movement. Here’s to each one of you - to our storied past, our dynamic present, and our promising future. We move ahead, united in purpose and passion, to change the world. Let’s go! Eric Letsinger Founder and STrategic Advisor Bright Future First and foremost, thank you, Eric, for all you have done to build Quantified Ventures. Your ability to think big and act bold, to inspire our people and partners, and to create innovative structures that improve our collective wellbeing is second to none. Also, thank you for trusting me to lead QV into the next chapter as its new CEO. As we edge toward this transition on January 1, 2024, I find myself both excited and impatient for the road that lies ahead. I am excited because we are at a generational moment in the United States where every historically disadvantaged community has the opportunity to secure more public money than ever before to enhance community health and resilience. That is why QV has focused on capacity building and enabling local partners to take an action-oriented approach to partnerships and problem solving. I am also impatient because we believe change for the better is not moving rapidly enough. We want to create systems change that enables us to move further, faster in order to right inequities and enhance the wellbeing of communities and our planet. QV’s top-notch team continues to think big, collaborate with bold pioneers, and implement investible solutions that drive measurable outcomes. Our goal is to mobilize $1 billion for climate, health, nature, and communities by 2025. There are 4 key tenets that will guide this work in the months ahead. We must: Increase our collective sense of urgency. Collaborate across sectors – philanthropic, private, public – and across disciplines. Solve at the community level and commit to measure outcomes. Drive systems change (and when necessary, create a new, better system). As this Impact Reports highlights, QV has produced more than its share of first-of-a-kind transactions and models that build community capacity to improve public health and the environment. If this work were easy, everyone would already be doing it. QV intentionally engages underserved communities, forges novel partnerships to drive new investments toward environmental and health impact, and builds capacity in organizations that are doing great work on the ground. We continue to change the game and improve entire systems. We believe you can’t fix systems by complaining from the outside. You have to be in the arena, advancing real projects, and producing real opportunities that deliver meaningful outcomes. We welcomes fellow optimists, risk-takers, systems thinkers, and change makers to join us on this journey. Thank you for your support and we look forward to causing more good trouble in the years to come. Tee Thomas CEO Our Impact: Highlights from 2022-2023 Climate and Nature Finance | Health and Human Services Climate and Nature Finance $27 Billion in Opportunities for Green Banks to Invest in Nature Green Bank Partnerships Further Climate, Nature, and Resilience Goals State and local green banks have boosted private financing for renewables and energy efficiency for more than a decade, but few have focused on environmental infrastructure. Investing in environmental infrastructure - which includes projects related to water, agriculture, parks, land conservation, forestry, climate adaptation, resilience, environmental markets, and waste and recycling - provides enormous potential benefits...