The impact accelerator.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/the-impact-accelerator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:14] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today on Rethink Real Estate. I'm on a mission to make real estate work for everyone. Real estate can help to solve climate change, can house people affordably, can create beautiful streetscapes, unify neighborhoods and enliven cities. So I'm on a journey to find the most creative thinkers and doers out there. I'm not the only one who wants to rethink real estate. You can learn more about me at Evepicker.com, where you can sign up for my newsletter, join an Impact Real Estate Club or find a transcript of this podcast. You'll also find me at Smallchange.co, a real estate crowdfunding platform with impact real estate investment opportunities open for investment right now. And if you want to support this podcast, join me at <strong>patreon.com/rethink real estate</strong> where there are special opportunities for my friends and followers.</p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:09] Today, I'm talking with Dr. Stephanie Gripne. In what seems to be an improbable amount of time, Stephanie has gone from ecologist to impact investment guru. Her big, hairy, audacious goal is to move a trillion dollars into impact investing. Ten years ago, about four years after getting her doctorate, she became director of the Initiative for Sustainable Development at the University of Colorado's Real Estate Center. There she was immersed in issues surrounding the built environment and socially responsible investing. In 2012, she took the leap and founded the Impact Finance Center as a nonprofit academic center with a mission to identify, train and activate philanthropists and investors to become impact investors. I've already learned a lot from Stephanie, but I'm going to learn more and so might you. So listen in. If you'd like to join me in my quest to rethink real estate, there are two