Our investment in Trellis, an Acumen Investment Initiative Smallholder farmers (SHFs) produce up to 70% of the food in low- and middle-income countries. Yet they are among the most climate vulnerable people on the planet. Increasingly severe and unpredictable droughts, floods, and heatwaves are threatening their livelihoods and, by extension, the food security of more…
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Image courtesy of RMI Of all the climate risks facing the world today, extreme heat may have the greatest potential to threaten human health. It is already having real, life-threatening consequences, especially for the more than one billion people living in informal settlements around the world. In many tropical cities, temperatures are pushed even higher…
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Image courtesy of Mati Carbon Global efforts to combat climate change increasingly point to a critical gap: the need for large-scale, permanent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to address the residual emissions that will remain even when net zero is reached. Scientists estimate that around 9 billion tons of CO₂ must be removed annually to meet…
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The Autodesk Foundation welcomes Safisana—a nonprofit committed to improving climate resilience and solving waste, sanitation, and energy-related issues in rapidly growing economies throughout the African continent—to its Health and Resilience portfolio.
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The Autodesk Foundation welcomes Wavemaker Impact—a climate venture builder fund that invests in Southeast Asian entrepreneurs and startups to rapidly decarbonize the planet—to its Health and Resilience portfolio.
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The Autodesk Foundation welcomes FAME USA—a network of employer-led chapters training the next generation of advanced manufacturing technicians—to its Work and Prosperity portfolio.
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The Autodesk Foundation welcomes JARC Rhode Island—a workforce development nonprofit on a mission to close the manufacturing talent gap—to its Work & Prosperity portfolio.
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Two billion people worldwide lack access to reliable energy In the energy access sector, the scaleup of mini-grids and solar home systems (SHS) is critical if we are to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 7—access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all—by 2030. Only half of the 800 million people without…
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The Autodesk Foundation has made an investment in Coalfield Development, a West Virginia nonprofit focused on facilitating employment and economic transition through workforce development programs and social enterprise incubation and investment in the region.
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The Autodesk Foundation welcomes Revolution Workshop to its Work & Prosperity portfolio. Revolution Workshop is a nonprofit based in Chicago, Illinois, that builds skills, hope, and resilience by providing construction job training to Chicago's underserved communities.
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