Mark Young from Rational Games, Inc.

Berlin Germany

impact investor with a focus on refugees

looking for partrnerships

I’m John, co-managing director at RIN. Joining from central Virginia

Flavia Tinelli from Acrux Partners - Buenos Aires, Argentina. Impact investments consultant

Hi Everyone, I am Sandrine, I am passionated by the economic empowerment of (marginalised) women. My main field of experience is in Turkey, supporting Syrian women to set up their own businesses. Very excited to be here.

I am Emmanuel from Uganda founder and CEO of Generous Designs Africa Company.Founded in 2019  in bidibidi refugee settlement, we envision a world free from plastic waste. We have invented a business model to address the social and environmental issues in our local community. To that end, we collect old plastic waste, transform it to new products for example cups, clips, beats, buttons, school bags, shopping bags, laptop bags and wallets and we sell this products to end customers. Through this simple process, we are able to reduce the plastic waste in the local communities, and to provide employment for a diverse team of refugees and Uganda. At the same time, we are raising awareness of the above mentioned issues in our local communities.Please you can check our following links for more informationhttps:www.generousdesigns.orghttps://youtu.be/qouyVtskuQ0https://www.facebook.com/GenerousDesignAfrica

Hi there,I am Yunus from &Arise, we are building a peer-to-peer coaching platform for refugee founders in the EU. We got into the Resilient100 cohort recently, and I am glad to get a bit into the ecosystem and learn about your fantastic work.

Michael Hall with Launch Capital Partners in Louisville, KY

Magdalene Muthoni, Open Capita (Kenya)- interested in learning about refugee lens investmenting

*Capital

Olaf, Social Impact, Munich. Interested in knowing how others are getting financing done for their program participants

Hi Izabela here from Turkey for Sector7 the social enterprise

Mehreteab, Country Manager Ethiopia, Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS)

Meredith Kiss, Acumen in New York

Pierre, with the Norwegian Refugee Council

Hi I am Andriana Theochari from Athens. I am director of Global Girl Media Greece. A social enterprise that powers the voice of young women in media, building bridges across cultures and the digital divide to help all women thrive.

hi I'm mikaya from Bidibidi Refugee settlement Uganda CEO and founder of COHESIVE PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION

I am Laila from London

Kat Kelley Catholic Charities USA

Matthew Westerbeck - he/him - Director of Refugee Services - Catholic Charities of Oregon. Excited to hear more about RIN's efforts, refugee lens investing, and the broad network of orgs serving refugees and working with refugees in various capacities

Hi 👋 Moses Bahati, Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya ( Salut Consultants Agency) reskilling refugees & opening opportunities for skilled youths. we seek partners & investors into social development projects to raise refugees for sustainability.

Noella kabale from Refugee Entrepreneurship Association limited

Adedana Ashebir, Village Capital. We’re the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups. We’re in talks to run a program for entrepreneurs building solutions in migrant and refugee financial health. And on a personal note, I’m a proud daughter of a refugee who worked in refugee settlement for 30+ years.

Hoda from Lebanon. A freelance economic development consultant at the moment, looking to increase impact investing in the MENA region. Interested to learn about RIN'S work.

Moses Bahati, +254768760431, salutafricafoundation@gmail.com. Salut Consultants Agency, empowering refugees for social development in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya

Hey everyone, my name is Julia, and I run a social enterprise (Kneading Peace), as well as a non-profit organisation (Same Skies) supporting refugees in Malaysia and Indonesia. Pleased to meet you all.

Hello everyone, it’s Nazli from University of Oxford. As a part of our MBA course here at Oxford we are working on a ‘systems reset’ challenge where my team decided to focus on issues regarding social cohesion and resilience of refugee communities. If you would like to chat about our project and be a part of our study please feel free to drop an email (nazli.unveren.mba21@said.oxford.edu) or connect via Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/nazli-unveren)

I am Selen Ucak, Entrepreneurship Lead at RIN. Great to have all of you here, and a special welcome to our Resilient 100 participants! :)

https://refugeeinvestments.org/resources/refugee-lens/

Refugee Lens: https://refugeeinvestments.org/resources/refugee-lens/

Pleasure to share my my presentation with all of you. My contacts below:

Thami@makersunite.eu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thamischweichler/

tasha@needslist.co

@needslist4good

NeedsList.co

As you listen to these great presentations, feel free to add your Qs in the chat and we will address at the end of the session.

it's just waouh listening to these Change makers and I'm looking forwards to more,learning experience, ahead with all our penalists.

Dear Natasha, it was very enriching to hear about your project. We have something similar in Turkey called Ihtiyac Haritasi. I am currently developing a new project with pilot in Belgium to provide meaningful job to skilled women migrants in Europe. We wanted to build an AI platform with various modules. It would be very interesting to speak to you to listen to your “technology” journey and the do and the don’t and who knows maybe we could partner :-)

We’re working with Welcome.US now, a national effort to support Afghan refugees and housing is far and away the biggest urgent need, thanks Michael!

Michael, you are doing great work in Louisville. As you mentioned the close relationship you have with tenants and that you are going to scale nationwide, I wondered how you sold this balance/dilemma of personal relationships vs. scalability to your partners/investors. We as a social startup, also love to work closely with our clients, but it is somehow a no-go to emphasize that too much when pitching to investors who are mainly concerned with scalability.

Many thanks for those interesting ventures! 1. Do you have any examples of homegrown bankable business in countries of origin of forced displaced (80%+ FDP are hosted in emerging markets), 2. How do you manage inclusiveness, as serving hosts too per Global Compacts/shared benefit and responsibilties?

Yunus, I think it’s important that you look at your investors (and other people on your capital stack) as customers who have their own needs. It’s important that your investors are on board with the scope and scale that can be realistically achieved. I think we struck that balance by being very careful about what type of capital we took. We attempted to make our investment as “typical” as possible so our structure is fairly vanilla box Private Equity Real Estate structure.

Any response or plan to response to address the needs in the 120k Afghan arrival?

@rahmat, you can see welcome.us/exchange as a starting point or reach out at tasha@needslist.co

@Michael, many thanks for your insights!

Second that, welcome.us is the best starting point to connect to that need

Hi @Tim Docking, it's great to hear about the market assesments that you atre carrying out to catalyze private investment. Are these markets assessments public?

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If anyone wants to connect my email is best way to get connected: michael@launch-intl.capital

Resilient 100: https://refugeeinvestments.org/resilient100/

@needlist PBC, I think my question was about is there any plan or specific response to the 120k arrival in investment and finance for the business? out of 120k thier is a lots of individuals who are former business owners or entrepreneurs but have no idea about financing and capital works in US?

And my email is selen.ucak@refugeeinvestments.org

Super interesting! Thank you for the time you took today, very inspiring

Thank you all very interesting panel

Wonderful experiences and insights shared today. Thank you all!

so nice, thank you very much

Inspiring, thanks a lot!

I actually have not heard much discussion yet about direct investment in entrepreneurship for Afghan arrivals, but it’s definitely on my mind. Let’s talk about it!

Thank you all for joining!

Thanks everyone.

Thanks all!

A big thanks for the fascilitors for today. looking forward to joining this great community

Thank you taking the time to join us. WE look forward to hearing from you