As well as focusing minds on what responsible investing looks like, the STEP Responsible Stewardship toolkit can also help us all have better conversations.  Sorely needed, whatever you want to achieve. STEP – Advising Families Across Generations

For investors seeking to identify forest risk and engage companies on the matter: join this webinar for a look at a public resource called Forest Clarity, launched this month. #environmentalrisk #biodiversity #foresthealth #stewardship

Utilities need objective insight when reliability is on the line. As the nation’s only fully independent, employee-owned vegetation management consulting firm, ACRT delivers unbiased recommendations — free from ties to tree care providers. That independence strengthens trust and supports better decisions. 🤝 Learn how ACRT delivers independent expertise: https://hubs.li/Q044xblW0

Utilities need objective insight when reliability is on the line. As the nation’s only fully independent, employee-owned vegetation management consulting firm, ACRT delivers unbiased recommendations — free from ties to tree care providers. That independence strengthens trust and supports better decisions. 🤝 Learn how ACRT delivers independent expertise: https://hubs.li/Q044x8Wq0

🧭 And we're live ! This morning Compass Insights and Sustainable Investor are hosting a dozen asset owners for a roundtable discussion on stewardship. Some of the questions we will be unpacking are: 1. How can asset owners monitor their asset managers and improve alignment across the investment chain. 2. How can they implement systemic stewardship. 3. And how they should think about resources, governance, and systems. We’re in for a very insightful workshop, with presentations, case studies, and open debate about what really matters in stewardship. Compass Insights

Utilities need objective insight when reliability is on the line. As the nation’s only fully independent, employee-owned vegetation management consulting firm, ACRT Pacific delivers unbiased recommendations — free from ties to tree care providers. That independence strengthens trust and supports better decisions. 🤝 Learn how ACRT Pacific delivers independent expertise: https://hubs.li/Q044xbnM0

March 31st is not a deadline. It's a countdown. Every rupee unspent on CSR by March 31st becomes a compliance red flag on your balance sheet. No extensions. No excuses. No rollovers. And yet, hundreds of companies are still sitting on unallocated CSR funds right now — hoping "something will come up." It won't. Here's what will come up: audit questions, board scrutiny, and public disclosure of non-compliance under Section 135. At Marpu Foundation, we've helped 300+ corporates deploy CSR funds into high-impact, execution-ready programs — Miyawaki forests, solar installations, water stewardship, hygiene drives — across 15+ states. Still have unspent CSR budget? 22 days is enough. But only if you start today. DM us or write to connect@marpu.org

As a lawyer turned consultant on the use of regulated funds by state and local governments and their subrecipients, the traditional emphasis on “monitoring” for compliance was familiar — fifty ways to advise “yes” or “no.” Something is missing in that type of relationship — the coaching on how: how to use that funny money, how to be compliant, how to achieve the public benefit aims that are the point of it all. Increasingly, public funding is performance based with particular policy outcomes as mandates. This takes the job entrusted to recipients well beyond just dotting the i’s, crossing the t’s, and balancing the books. There’s a mission to the money now that has to be measured, reported, and realized — and more and more on a clock to boot. Recognizing this paradigm shift, we’ve been changing the way we advise our clients and their subrecipients — with more support than surveillance, more program design than dissecting. In short, we’re applying a stewardship model for helping grantees and subrecipients alike meet the mission and do right with the public funds entrusted to them for the public good. My colleague, Augusta Feldmann and I wrote the attached article on how to apply this stewardship model in the use of the federal government’s newest performance driven funding — the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).   Key to successfully using that funding will be the ability to coach, support, and guide a wide array of sub-granted hospitals, nonprofits, clinics, and other entities, with varying degrees of federal grant use experience, in their use of RHTP. Nationwide, hundreds, maybe thousands, of organizations are about to be the front line enablers of bolstered rural healthcare — or not. Whether you’re their grantor or consultant, consider being more steward than surveillor to meet that mission.   And if your jam happens to be another flavor of performance driven grants, we still recommend the same:   1. Tailor subawards to match the maturity and mission of each partner. 2. Enable success through technical assistance hubs, not just compliance checklists. 3. Connect subrecipients by creating structured opportunities to learn from each other, not just report up.   When we treat subrecipients as partners in an ecosystem, not vendors to oversee, we build delivery networks that outlast any single grant cycle and turn grant management into performance achievement. Have a read of our article and we welcome any feedback and conversations it launches. Keep up the good work out there. #kpmg #grantmanagement #governanceforgood #ruralhealthcare https://lnkd.in/e8tmFNAH

This small woman-owned management and technology consulting firm secured a 5-year Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) set-aside contract to support ITAS efforts to enhance IT acquisition processes for the USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Business Center. ==>> https://lnkd.in/eqGMzaxb Southpoint Consulting Inc. | Nicale Whitehead Nxumalo | Yvette Neisser (formerly Moreno)

🎙️ Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc joins the show to chat about keeping the lights on for open source projects, open source’s sustainability and burnout problems, and how trusted stewardship can reduce risk when project maintainers step away. https://lnkd.in/eTCfwNSC