Subject: Optional reading for our board meeting next week
From: Charlotte Pera <[email-masked]>
To: Jamshyd Godrej <[email-masked]>, Larry Kramer <[email-masked]>, Carol Larson <[email-masked]>, Pamela Matson <[email-masked]>, Kristian Parker <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Susan Tierney <[email-masked]>
Cc: Gretchen Rau <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:40:37 +0000

Dear ClimateWorks Board,

Attached please find a near-final draft report commissioned by the Packard, MacArthur, and ClimateWorks Foundation on the opportunities for mission investments, combined with grant making, to catalyze faster, deeper climate action.  Please do not feel obliged to read this in full, but you may wish to scan this hot-off-the-press report before our board meeting on Wednesday.  We will touch on the topic of mission investment in a brief discussion of several possibilities we are evaluating for enhancing our value proposition.  This will be a follow up to our discussion of this topic in our September board meeting and will be part of the CEO update.

Stephen Linaweaver managed this project for ClimateWorks.  We are grateful to our partners at the Packard and MacArthur Foundations for their partnership in this work, and to Redstone Strategies for conducting the assessment.

As always, please let me know if you have questions or comments.  I look forward to seeing you all next week.

Best,
Charlotte
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Charlotte Pera
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