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Fundo Vale launches acceleration program for businesses as part of
2030 Voluntary Forest Commitment
The
five businesses that make up Fundo Vale’s portfolio to contribute
to Vale’s goal of restoring 100,000 hectares of degraded areas by
2030 entered the structuring phase at the end of February. By the end of
2021, these businesses had passed the proof-of-concept stage and the
area covered by them had been scaled up from 1,000 to 6,000 hectares.
Now, through an acceleration program specially developed by Darwin
Startup in line with the 2030
Voluntary Forest Commitment, the idea is for these
enterprises to reassess their strategies and bottlenecks, and then
leverage their business models to ensure they are sustainable and
financially scalable.
Belterra,
Inocas,
Caaporã,
Regenera
and Bioenergia
will be assisted in this journey by specialists in businesses and
technicians in their areas of activity.
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out more
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The
Amazon
at Home, Intact Forest Movement,
an initiative carried out by Climate Ventures,
Idesam and AMAZ, started this year with a
contest to select and support 20 community businesses and
organizations that work with Amazonian social and biological
diversity products. Impact businesses that sell regional
products and are committed to keeping the forest intact will
be selected. These businesses will take part in a
capacity-building program focused on logistics and
marketing. The final results will be announced on April 28
and the acceleration program is scheduled to begin on May
2.Find
out more
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The
Corporate Citizenship Institute has announced the
organizations selected in the 2021-2022
Impact Chains Contest
to assist projects run by organizations that support impact
businesses. The five chosen projects represent all regions
of Brazil and most of them involve supporting black and
female entrepreneurs, as well as those from disadvantaged
locations. The initiative’s strategic partners are Fundo
Vale and Cosan. The contest attracted more
than 55 valid applications.Find
out more
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Fundo
Vale and Vale have two semifinalist projects in
BNDES’
Everyone for Sustainability Awards.
These projects are the Partners for the Amazon Platform’s
Acceleration Program and Fundo Vale’s COVID-19 Social and
Environmental Response Plan to support Amazon community
businesses. The awards recognize initiatives by companies
that philanthropically sponsor social and environmental
projects that contribute to well-structured and long-lasting
projects, boosting their impacts and helping transform
society.Find
out more
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Applications
are now open for AMAZ’s
2022 Business Selection Contest,
an initiative supported by Fundo Vale. The impact
accelerator is looking for businesses and entrepreneurs that
are generating positive social and environmental impacts and
strengthening the bioeconomy based on conservation of
natural resources in the Amazon. The scheme is aimed at
entrepreneurs, startups, community-based businesses
(associations and cooperatives), organizations and
companies. The selected enterprises will participate in an
acceleration journey and receive investments of up to
R$600,000. They will also be able to access the largest
network of impact entrepreneurs focused on the region.
Applications will be accepted between April 4 and May
2.Find
out more
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| Acceleration
is a word widely used to describe the
process of developing new business models.
Around the world, acceleration methodologies
started with mentoring by more experienced
entrepreneurs, to help new entrepreneurs
learn the ropes and generate interest from
investors or other companies. A startup
acceleration program is a way of putting
solutions on the market and leveraging
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In March, a month dedicated to women,
Patrícia Daros, Fundo Vale’s director of
operations, commented on “ Women
Transform the Future,” a
campaign created by Vale, highlighting women’s
role in building a more equitable and
sustainable future. The company’s inclusion and
diversity initiatives have been making its
workplaces ever more collaborative, innovative
and attractive to new talents. Accordingly,
studies, research and activities involving
leaders and/or women are moving forward in all
the countries where Vale is
present. Watch this video. Find
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A
new study linked to the Amazon
2030 project, called “Food
Regions,”
has just been published. The study presents
one possible business scenario related to
food in the Amazon and the emergence and
modernization of startups and producers, to
supply high-quality products to demanding
markets. The combination of extremely rich
biodiversity and businesses keen to grow has
the potential to develop the region’s
economy. Previous analyzes by the group
revealed that more than 33% of professionals
employed in the Amazon region work in
activities related to the production,
processing, marketing or disposal of
food.
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Listen
to “Natural Disasters: Urgent Adaptation” podcast
High rainfall in the mountainous inland part of the state of Rio de Janeiro has
been in Brazil’s newspaper headlines since February. The amount of rain in a
24-hour period broke records dating back nearly a century. This led to huge
landslides, turning the streets of the historic city of Petrópolis into rivers
of mud and destroying everything in the way, in a tragedy that took the lives of
more than a hundred people. However, little has been said about climate change’s
impact on extreme events like this. In this podcast, part of G1’s “O Assunto”
series, journalist Renata
Lo Prete talked to GloboNews reporter André Coelho and
economist Sérgio Margulis.
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Articles
and Publications
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Mariano
Cenamo,
the new business director of Idesam and CEO of impact
accelerator AMAZ, believes that it is necessary to
build an ecosystem that supports new and sustainable
enterprises in the forest in order to protect this
vulnerable habitat. He argues that the private sector, civil
society organizations and impact businesses across the
Amazon should join forces to expand these enterprises.
Cenamo gives the example of Silicon Valley, which generates
and shares knowledge and networks in a way never seen before
in a business environment.Find
out more
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The
newspaper O
Liberal published an
article about the Carajás
National Forest Extractive Workers’
Cooperative, an
initiative supported by Vale, which
in 2019 was selected to take part in the
Partners for the Amazon Platform’s
Acceleration Program, which is backed by
Fundo Vale.
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out
more
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Another
article in O
Liberal highlighted
another initiative supported by Fundo
Vale, via AMAZ, an impact
accelerator. This time, the newspaper told
the story of Manioca, flavors
of amazon.Find
out more
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The
newspaper Valor
Econômico reported on
activities carried out by Conexsus
and supported by Fundo Vale. The article
provided details of aid provided to
associations and cooperatives of rural and
extractive producers.
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out more
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The impact co-leader of investment manager
VOX Capital, Daniel
Brandão, will lead a webinar
focused on advanced impact measurement and
management strategies, based on VOX Capital’s
practical experience. The meeting is being
organized by the American Evaluation Association
and you can sign up for it now. Take
part!
Sign
up for the event
here
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Later this month, in Cartagena, Colombia,
the first edition of “Impact
Minds: Standing Together”
will be held. This event is being organized by
Latimpacto, a network of organizations across
Latin America that deploys human, intellectual
and financial capital to multiply social and
environmental impacts. The meeting will bring
together drivers of change and impact ecosystem
leaders, as well as fostering innovative
partnerships and attracting more capital to the
region. Personalities from many different
countries will be present. Be sure to check it
out!
Click
here for more
details
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EDITOR’S
ERRATUM: On March 22, a previous version of this newsletter was mistakenly
sent out to all subscribers. The information was for design guidance only
and did not constitute editorial content. Fundo Vale apologizes for
prematurely sending out this newsletter.
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