Grameen America

And so let me pause and I'd love to hand it to Rick, but that was my first call, Mr. Rick.

Yeah, and I would say that the deep partnership that Steve and I formed in the early days working together on the Grameen America evaluation and some other work was so central to this because I, as an evaluator, like our dream partner is someone who has an openness to radical transparency that just let the data tell us what the story is.

We'll build on it.

This is not an up or down vote on the organization.

Desiree couldn't be here tonight because it's the launch day for her husband, Kyle MacLachlan's memoir, and even though I am her favorite employee, her life partner and father of her children get priority, so.

Full Picture is where I had the privilege of working on legacy campaigns and projects with some of the most impactful people and organizations in the world, like Moira mentioned, former First Lady Michelle Obama, David Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, Grameen America, and World Central Kitchen, to name a few.

But most importantly, I've learned the power of connecting people, ideas, and stories.

And I genuinely believe that there has never been a more important time to harness that power.

They, they've, they've provided, uh, you know, specialized working capital lines of credit to social enterprises like One Acre Farm and, and Accesso.

Um, and in the US, they've backed, uh, community development financial institutions, CDFIs, uh, such as Grameen America and ROCK USA, which has got this interesting model of helping mobile home residents, uh, uh, who own their, their, their manufactured homes buy the land together as co-ops, uh, the, the, the, in the mobile home parks where they're, where they're, where they're living.

So a very wide range of kinds of investments, but sort of motivated by this notion that they're looking i-impact first as opposed to what folks might think of as finance first and trying to tack impact on at the back end.

Yeah.