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Check out all the updates in our September e-newsletter! ... ? California Governor’s Monthly Update ? Task Force to Showcase Tools Demonstrating Progress ? California Protects 11,000 Acres of the Upper Trinity River Watershed ? CAL FIRE Funds 94 Wildfire Projects to Build Climate and Community Resilience ? U.S. Forest Service Announces Funding to Local Businesses and Underserved Populations to Reduce Wildfire Risk ? California IBank Invests in Wildfire Innovation Fund ? SNC Awards Cultural Burning Capacity Grant to Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Nonprofit ... Read the newsletter here >> https://lnkd.in/gYJhkPsY ... Subscribe to get future e-newsletters in your inbox! >> https://bit.ly/TF-News … California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Office of the Governor - California CalEPA Cal OES California Department of Conservation Bureau of Land Management USDA Forest Service Sierra Nevada Conservancy California Natural Resources Agency California State Association of Counties? Rural County Representatives of California … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #Wildfire

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California IBank invests $25M in Wildfire Innovation Fund! … California’s Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) announced $25 million from the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund will be invested in the California Wildfire Innovation Fund to reduce wildfire risk, restore California forests, improve forest health, and put new biomass technologies to work. The fund offers flexible, low-cost financial support for emerging opportunities across California’s forest restoration and wood utilization sectors. ... Learn more about this investment and the California Wildfire Innovation Fund managed by Blue Forest. >> https://lnkd.in/gVS88f7Y … IBank California California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) Blue Forest … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #ClimateCatalystFund #Forestry

Congratulations to IBank on 30 years of amplifying economic growth throughout California! Deputy Treasurer John Sheldon attended the celebration of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, on behalf of Treasurer Fiona Ma, who is an IBank California board member. IBank was founded in 1994 to finance public infrastructure and private development. The event was held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, one of the projects financed through IBank. Attendees included business leaders, legislators, and former IBank executive directors, bankers, and lawyers.

I’m excited to attend this year's DiverseVC Conference on Thursday, September 12th, in downtown San Francisco! I’m looking forward to meeting and connecting with my fellow emerging & diverse VCs, along with all the LPs attending. Look forward to insights from the incredible line-up including Octavio Sandoval, CFA, CAIA (Illumen Capital), Renata Aráuz-DeStefano (Pivotal Ventures), Pamela Pavkov (TPG Next), Derrick Tang (IBank California) and more. Learn more here: https://www.diversevc.org/ Thank you Tim Hsia?(Context VC) & Neil Devani?(Necessary Ventures) for hosting and Citizens Private Bank, Sidley Austin LLP, Juniper Square, BDO, Stifel Financial Corp., Harmonic for sponsoring! cc: Stasia Obremskey

I’m proud to be a part of the team that brought this innovative deal to fruition - starting first with the brilliant folks at Blue Forest, and including our partners at CSAA Insurance, demonstrating exactly the kind of foresight and proactivity we need to get ahead of the insurance crisis. And to my state partners - we’ve broken new ground here in showing what a Green Bank can mean for California. Now let’s make the IRA’s #NationalCleanInvestmentFund work for those who need it most.

We are proud to announce that the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank’s Climate Catalyst Fund has invested $25 million in Blue Forest’s California Wildfire Innovation Fund, strengthening the state’s commitment to strategic wildfire risk reduction. Blue Forest is excited to partner with IBank California alongside CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, in a first-of-its-kind coalition of non-profit, public sector, and insurance industry organizations to invest in forest restoration and economic revitalization efforts for local communities across the state. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gNXEg3Y9 #wildfiremitigation

TODAY: IBank’s #ClimateCatalystFund announces a $25M investment in Blue Forest #CaliforniaWildfireInnovationFund (CWIF). The CWIF will help reduce the severity and frequency of catastrophic wildfires by investing in the forest restoration and biomass utilization sectors across California.? Through this commitment, IBank is proud to partner with CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer – demonstrating a shared commitment to proactively addressing the wildfire crisis at its source,? collaborating with CWIF to promote scalable solutions that enhance affordability and animate markets for biomass utilization.? Learn more about the investment: https://bit.ly/3yS2Th2 Stay in the loop on IBank’s Climate Catalyst Fund: bit.ly/3AH9sDt

?? Join the IBank California on August 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM for the California Small Business Loan Match Office Hours + Q&A virtually via Zoom. Learn how the new platform connects small businesses to responsible lenders. Featuring experts from IBank, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF), and program partners. https://lnkd.in/dbW7z6uh #SmallBusiness #BusinessLoans #CaliforniaIBank #ResponsibleLending #SmallBusinessFinance #BusinessGrowth #California Scott Fox ??