This is a pivotal moment for Miami, which has never been positioned so strongly for success -- or faced such daunting challenges, from sea-level rise to income inequality. On Opportunity Miami, host Matt Haggman talks to the innovators, entrepreneurs, and community champions who are turning the community’s biggest challenges into its greatest opportunities. Opportunity Miami is powered by the Miami-Dade Beacon Council.
Episode 69: Pricing Risk: The Future of Climate Insurance
Miami is a place where sea-level rise, extreme heat, and storm intensification collide with the realities of a growing, globally connected city. But Miami is emerging not only as the testing ground for climate challenges through innovation but also as the global hub for the solutions that will define how we assess and manage environmental risk. At the center of this is the Environmental Finance and Risk Management program at Florida International University, designed to rethink how we can better quantify and respond to environmental risk.
19 Nov 2025
Episode 68: Restoring the River of Grass: The Business Case for the Everglades
Florida’s economic future flows through the Everglades. It is not only the source of drinking water for nearly eight million residents across the South Florida region, but it also has a direct impact on our tourism, real estate values, and more. The Everglades generates over $1 trillion in value and nearly $31.5 billion in annual economic benefits for the region, according to the central finding of the Everglades Foundation’s recent report, Thriving Everglades, Thriving Economy: Nature’s Value in the Everglades. Dr. Meenakshi Chabba, Ecosystem and Resilience Scientist and one of the report’s authors, puts it plainly: “Miami and South Florida wouldn’t exist without the Everglades.”
8 Nov 2025
Episode 67: Scaling Their Impact: Connecting Tech to Nonprofits
In 1987, long before cloud computing and AI, a small group of technologists in the Bay Area saw how nonprofit organizations wanted to use technology to advance their missions, but lacked access, affordability, and the know-how. That’s when TechSoup was born, first as a matching service between “geeks” with technical expertise and social activists with big ideas but little IT support, explains Rebecca Masisak, Executive Chair at TechSoup Global. Four decades later, TechSoup has evolved into a global marketplace serving 1.4 million nonprofits in over 200 countries, distributing more than $15 billion in technology resources and training to organizations of every size and cause. It also supports almost *all* of the nonprofits in Miami-Dade County.
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