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Caroline Bressan

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CEO @openroadimpact.bsky.social All opinions my own.

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ImpactAssets @impactassets.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Announcing the release of the ImpactAssets 50 2025 – the definitive guide to impact investment fund managers globally. This year’s #IA50 features 165 experienced and emerging impact investment fund managers, the highest number to date: buff.ly/VlaQrdt Press release (buff.ly/w3HnnyG)
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Open Road @openroadimpact.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We're excited to share that we've been selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2025 as an Emerging Impact Manager! It's an honor to be recognized alongside a diverse group of impact investment fund managers creating meaningful impact. Congrats to all the other incredible funds making an impact this year!
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ImpactAssets 50 - Impact Fund Manager Showcase
The ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50) is the most recognized free database of impact investment fund managers committed to generating positive impact. Learn More!
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Inside Philanthropy @insidephilanthropy.com · 07/02/2025
💰 Can impact investing fill philanthropy’s funding gaps? Laurie Michaels’ model blends finance & social impact to create sustainable funding solutions. Inside Philanthropy takes a closer look. 📖 Read more: tinyurl.com/eafzs68f #Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting #FundingInnovation #SustainableGiving
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Impact Investing to Bridge Funding Shortfalls: Laurie Michaels’ Model
Through Open Road Alliance, Michaels and her team offer financial lifelines to impact organizations facing funding delays. It’s a strategy with lots of salience right now.
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Open Road @openroadimpact.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Again and again, what we’ve heard from organizations that do have mostly foreign aid funding, the killer really is uncertainty… The idea of having to lay people off on a USAID-funded project that then have to get hired 60 days later or 90 days later,” Bressan said. “How does that work?"
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Impact Investing to Bridge Funding Shortfalls: Laurie Michaels’ Model
Through Open Road Alliance, Michaels and her team offer financial lifelines to impact organizations facing funding delays. It’s a strategy with lots of salience right now.
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Caroline Bressan @carobressan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just want to give some love to @wired.com reporters for their unwavering persistence in bringing to light the insidious shenanigans of these DOGE nerds.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Shuttered HIV and TB treatment programs have been told they cannot resume work without written instruction that the waiver applies to them. Few have been able to obtain such clarification because their assigned contacts at USAID have been fired or furloughed..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/02/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s attack on USAID has cut HIV/AIDS workers off from medicine and money. The Trump Administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives. Read our scoop here:
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Elon Musk's DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts
The Trump Administration claims it is allowing "lifesaving" foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Big national media outlet still failing. Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID. *Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves. *Not conveying illegality. *Not communicating constitutional crisis.
Top Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team

Trump and allies make more moves to wrest control of USAID
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
What do we call it when someone who has not been elected takes control of the government inconsistent with any constitutional provision and who claims he’s voiding lawful mandates of the legislature?
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The #USAID website has just gone dark, amidst reporting #Trump may try to dissolve it completely. But #Congress established USAID in statute, and Trump can't unilaterally override a statute by executive order. Read my latest via @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
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Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
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Caroline Bressan @carobressan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for a small dose of sanity during a harrowing few days for the international development community. I can't recommend these 15 minutes enough: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... #usaid #impactinvesting #democracy
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Don't Believe Him
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m
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Caroline Bressan @carobressan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
usaid.gov no longer working....👀
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NextBillion @nextbillion.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Kudos to @devex.com for their coverage of the recent turmoil at #USAID and other American #ForeignAid providers. One example: This frank, disheartening article from @elissamio.bsky.social: www.devex.com/news/i-don-t... Thank you for documenting the vast global impacts of these sweeping changes.
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‘I don’t think anyone can survive for 90 days’: Aid’s grim new reality
“It feels like being in a boxing ring with multiple opponents, trying to figure out where the next blow is going to come from,” the leader of one aid organization told Devex.
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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 29/01/2025
Funding Freeze: Impact-focused funders are mobilizing for social enterprises facing cancelled programs, funding shortfalls and layoffs. We exist to ‘unstick’ capital and capital is very certainly getting stuck," says @openroadimpact.bsky.social's Caroline Bressan. impactalpha.com/trump-fundin...
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Mission-driven funders scramble to respond to Trump’s funding freeze
As confusion reigned Tuesday after Trump's funding freeze, philanthropic and impact-focused funders mobilized to build bridges for social enterprises facing cancelled programs and funding shortfalls.
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