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Personal praxis, institutional strategy, and capital design in an age of polarization.
Program overview
After the wake-up comes the work — but first, clarity about how we show up. Building on Session 1 and Jed Emerson’s new Substack series, this conversation shifts from diagnosis toward agency: the roles we can play, the coalitions that matter, and the conditions under which capital acts as a counterforce to authoritarian drift. Rather than a full playbook, we’ll surface practical principles and near-term moves—linking personal practice and civic engagement to institutional posture and capital deployment—so mission can move in the real world.
Topics covered
Deep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of related articles and our members. Be sure to read the articles in question and come bearing questions!
Jed Emerson is a pioneer of purpose-driven capital with 30+ years in the field. Co-author of the first book on impact investing — and seven others on impact and social entrepreneurship — he founded Blended Value Group, advising investment firms, funds, family offices, and foundations on strategy and execution. In the late 1990s he coined “blended value,” the now-influential idea that social, environmental, and economic value are inseparable; his book The Purpose of Capital explores aligning wealth and purpose across generations. Emerson serves as Senior Strategic Advisor at AlTi Tiedemann Global and Senior Fellow at ImpactAssets; he advises Happiness Capital and sits on the board of the Katapult Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow with the University of Zurich’s Blended Finance Initiative and a Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University’s Center on Social Investing, and has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, with teaching roles at Kellogg and NYU–Abu Dhabi. Earlier, he helped found REDF and Larkin Street Youth Services.
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