BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Impact Entrepreneur - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Impact Entrepreneur REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20241022T171058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134742Z UID:10000106-1732190400-1732194900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:From Capitalism to Peopleism with Ravi Chaudhry DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\n \n \n From Capitalism to Peopleism: Redefining Leadership for a Sustainable Future \nJoin us for a compelling conversation with renowned leadership mentor and author Ravi Chaudhry\, Founder-Chairman of CeNext Consulting and former Chairman of Tata Group companies\, as he explores the urgent need for a transformative shift from capitalism to "Peopleism" — a governance model that places human well-being and the planet at the core of decision-making. In this webinar\, part of the Luminarias Series\, Chaudhry will discuss the limitations of current economic systems and the critical role of leadership in navigating these systemic challenges. Drawing on his latest book\, Capitalism to Peopleism\, Chaudhry offers a visionary roadmap for fostering responsible entrepreneurship\, ethical leadership\, and sustainable growth that serves both society and the environment. \nThis session will delve into how leaders in business\, government\, and civil society can transition from knowledge-based approaches to wisdom-led governance that promotes equity\, collaboration\, and long-term societal well-being. Attendees will gain valuable insights into actionable strategies for rethinking leadership in the 21st century\, while also learning how to balance short-term imperatives with long-term objectives that align with the collective aspirations of all stakeholders. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with a leading thinker who is reshaping the conversation around leadership and sustainability. \nFeatured Guest\nRavi ChaudhryRavi Chaudhry is an Indian author\, leadership mentor\, entrepreneur\, thought leader\, and advisor to corporate boards\, governments\, and civil society — on grasping the new challenges and instituting wisdom-led\, people-centric\, and eco-conscious cultures. He is best known as the founder-chairman of CeNext Consulting and former chairman of Tata Group companies\, India’s largest business conglomerate. He believes that good performance in any domain can only be sustained through transparent governance\, ethical leadership\, and responsible entrepreneurship. \nHe spends most of his time on designing and conducting customized leadership programs\, focused on coming to terms with the need to realistically align short-term and long-term goals\, and to secure genuine trust of all stakeholders — a process that demands a rethink of decision-making principles and structures. He lives in New Delhi. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/from-capitalism-to-peopleism-with-ravi-chaudhry/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/02.Ravi-Chaudhry-Photograph.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89775062191 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20240429T153956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134659Z UID:10000098-1717070400-1717074900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:How Alternative Investment Strategies Can Drive Sustainable Solutions DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nHow Alternative Investment Strategies Can Drive Sustainable Solutions   \nIn our rapidly evolving global landscape\, we are increasingly facing a complex set of interrelated social and environmental challenges\, often referred to as a "polycrisis." These challenges demand innovative and systemic solutions that go beyond traditional approaches. As we grapple with these multifaceted problems\, there's a growing recognition of the critical role that financial mechanisms can play in addressing and potentially solving aspects of the polycrisis. \nIn this Luminaries Series webinar\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Courtney Birnbaum from Corbin Capital Partners. Drawing on findings from Corbin’s recently released white paper\, “Investing in Tomorrow”\, Courtney will share her perspectives on how non-traditional\, alternative investment strategies like private credit and hedge fund strategies\, largely untapped up to this point\, can be effectively deployed to invest in solutions that foster meaningful\, positive social and environmental change\, all while delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns. We’ll delve into some of the megatrends that these strategies are designed to capture as well as specific examples of how they can be used to deliver impact outcomes in areas such as litigation finance and opioids\, carbon credits\, and affordable housing. \nFeatured Guest\nCourtney Birnbaum\n\n\n\nCourtney Birnbaum serves as the Director of Sustainability at Corbin Capital Partners\, a New York-based woman-led independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing. Corbin has experience creating and managing differentiated commingled and bespoke portfolios for investors globally. As of January 1\, 2024\, Corbin has $8.70 billion in assets under management. \nCourtney leads Corbin’s ESG integration and responsible investing programs. Prior to formally joining Corbin in January 2022\, Courtney served as a consultant for a year during which time she helped shape Corbin’s proprietary ESG materiality framework within the investment process. She also led the firm’s manager engagement efforts. Courtney is a member of Corbin’s Sustainability Committee\, Multi-Strategy Investment Committee\, and Credit Investment Committee. Previously\, Courtney was a senior advisor and portfolio manager at several family offices and the Director of Marketable Investments for the Bowdoin College endowment. Before joining Bowdoin\, Courtney spent approximately seven years at Goldman Sachs where she was a Vice President in the Alternative Investments and Manager Selection group (AIMS). In this role\, she was responsible for manager selection and seeding within hedge funds. Prior to Goldman\, she was a director at Sterling Stamos\, a multi-family office\, for four years. Courtney began her career in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and Rothschild. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\n\nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/how-alternative-investment-strategies-can-drive-sustainable-solutions/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Courtney-Birnbaum-Head-Shot-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82798994932 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20240321T153018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134650Z UID:10000096-1715860800-1715865300@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in the Global South DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIn developing nations\, the stark reality for women reveals entrenched barriers to entrepreneurship that\, if surmounted\, could unlock a staggering $5-6 trillion global opportunity. Only 17% of women currently helm their own businesses\, yet a further 35% harbor the aspiration to do so. Despite this ambition\, they grapple with formidable challenges: from restricted access to capital and land\, societal norms limiting mobility\, to the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work. The cost of inaction is high\, with projections indicating it might take centuries to close gaps in legal protection\, eradicate child marriage\, and achieve gender parity in leadership and political representation. \nIn this Luminarias webinar and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur's Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Lizz Welch\, CEO of iDE\, and Jennifer Roglà\, PhD\, Global Director of Monitoring\, Evaluation\, Research\, and Learning (MERL) at iDE\, to discuss the critical barriers impeding women entrepreneurs and the innovative strategies being employed to dismantle these obstacles. With a keen focus on gender parity\, iDE has committed $137 million over five years to poverty alleviation initiatives that are not only about promoting economic growth but also recognize the profound societal impact\, considering women reinvest up to 90% of their income into their families. \nThroughout the webinar\, attendees will gain insights into: \n\nThe critical barriers hindering women entrepreneurs in developing countries.\niDE’s evidence-based strategies for empowering women and the expected ripple effects on society\, to go beyond income.\nThe broader societal implications of investing in women\, from diminishing child marriages to fostering gender parity in positions of power and leadership.\n\nJoin us as we delve into the transformative work of iDE\, through the experiences of Lizz Welch and Jennifer Roglà\, and explore how fostering gender parity in entrepreneurship can catalyze comprehensive economic and social advancement. Our guests will also share case studies of iDE's impactful work across various developing nations. \nFeatured Guests\nLizz WelchElizabeth Welch is the CEO of iDE\, bringing her expertise in gender empowerment\, monitoring and evaluation\, finance\, and economic growth to the helm since 2019. With over a decade at iDE and two and half decades of experience designing solutions for challenging markets in Asia\, Africa\, Central America\, and the Middle East\, she holds a master's degree in public policy and public administration focused on non-profit management and a BA in history and global development studies. Her work has consistently been driven by a passion for developing talent\, fostering economic growth\, and creating sustainable change. \nJennifer RoglàJennifer Roglà\, PhD\, leads iDE's global measurement strategy as the Global Director of MERL. Jennifer champions iDE's efforts to ensure that their rigorous measurement endeavors are inclusive\, participatory\, and ethical. Her extensive experience nearing two decades spans across work on multiple continents\, research and evaluations\, organizational strategy and impact measurement\, and promoting iDE's thought leadership. Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations\, specializing in research methods and international public policy\, and bachelor’s and master's in psychology and anthropology. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/empowering-women-entrepreneurs-in-the-global-south/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WRHomepage.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81863677032 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20240206T181001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134635Z UID:10000093-1709812800-1709817300@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Sustainable Innovation and Systemic Impact with MIT's Jason Jay DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nSustainable Innovation and Systemic Impact with MIT's Jason Jay \nJoin us for a compelling Luminarias Series webinar featuring a fireside chat and audience Q&A\, where Impact Entrepreneur's Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Jason Jay\, a vanguard in the realm of sustainability at MIT Sloan. \nThis conversation will hone in on the transformative theories of change that underpin sustainable innovation and drive systemic impact\, aiming to dissect the frameworks and strategies instrumental in navigating the transition towards a more sustainable economy. \nWe will focus on: \n\nBalancing the ambition and realism of environmental goals within enterprises.\nThe crucial role of systemic investing in confronting complex social challenges\, advancing beyond traditional single-solution approaches.\nPinpointing leadership capabilities essential for spurring cross-sector collaboration and spearheading systemic sustainability transformations.\nThe catalyzing role of sustainability-oriented innovation as a conduit to pioneering business models and solutions.\n\nDrawing on the depth of Jason Jay's recent co-authored articles (here\, here\, and here)\, this webinar promises to equip leaders\, innovators\, and change agents with the insights needed to maneuver the intricacies of systemic change and sustainable innovation. Engage with us in a session designed to redefine the synergy between entrepreneurship\, investment\, and education in our collective quest for a durable and resilient impact economy. \nFeatured Guest\nJason JayJason Jay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. He teaches executive and masters-level courses on strategy\, innovation\, and leadership for sustainable business. He has helped secure MIT Sloan's position as a leader in the field of sustainability through teaching\, research\, and industry engagement. Dr. Jay’s publications have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal\, California Management Review\, MIT Sloan Management Review\, Stanford Social Innovation Review\, Greenbiz\, and World Economic Forum. With Gabriel Grant\, he is the author of the international bestseller Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World. Dr. Jay also works as a facilitator for companies\, organizations\, and business families\, supporting high quality conversation and shared commitment to ambitious sustainability goals. His clients have included EFG Asset Management\, Novartis\, Bose\, Environmental Defense Fund\, BP and the World Bank. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/sustainable-innovation-and-systemic-impact-with-mits-jason-jay/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/profile-image-27775-1-gpx-low_res-height-1000px.jpeg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86790454535 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20231228T173430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134630Z UID:10000091-1708603200-1708607700@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Pioneering Change: Catalyzing Climate Solutions with Sarah Kearney DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nPioneering Change: Catalyzing Climate Solutions with Sarah Kearney \nClimate change\, a defining challenge of our time\, requires both existing and new technological solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the scale required. Yet\, the path from groundbreaking idea to scale is fraught with financial and structural obstacles. \nPrime Coalition\, founded and led by Sarah Kearney\, stands at the forefront of this journey\, steering catalytic capital through Prime and influencing capital outside of Prime toward scalable solutions to climate change. \nPrime Coalition's mission transcends just money; it involves substantiating\, designing\, constructing\, fundraising\, implementing\, and evaluating groundbreaking impact-first investment programs\, and providing resources to help many hundreds of other investment managers consider the future climate impacts of their investment decisions. Prime’s approach has been pivotal in turning potential into progress in the fight against climate change. \nIn this Luminarias Series webinar\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Sarah Kearney to explore the transformative role of Prime Coalition in addressing climate change. \nTopics to be discussed include: \n\nEngaging Philanthropic and Impact Investors: Understanding Prime Coalition's role in bridging the gap between donor advised funds\, private foundations\, corporate giving programs\, and other mission investors to support impactful investment opportunities in climate technology.\nMission governance: Hearing about Prime’s lessons learned across its first decade about the roles the nonprofit plays to safeguard impact and avoid slippage toward finance-first practices on a day-to-day basis.\nPrime Coalition's Investment Strategy: Exploring Prime’s venture capital programs’ investment criteria from its first ten years and looking forward to Prime’s ambition to stand up at least four impact-first investment teams over the next ten years.\nSpotlight on Success Stories: Showcasing specific early-stage companies supported by Prime Coalition over the past ten years. Examples include breakthroughs in carbon capture and storage\, novel sustainable agriculture techniques\, and advancements in zero-emission transportation.\nCatalytic Capital in Action: Delving into how Prime Coalition's unique approach has been instrumental in bringing these innovations from concept to market-readiness.\nOvercoming the 'Valley of Death': Discussing the challenges faced by early-stage climate solutions in securing funding and how Prime Coalition's programs offer a lifeline.\n\nThis session promises to be a deep exploration into the world of climate solutions\, offering a unique perspective on the role of catalytic capital in absorbing disproportionate risk across a variety of climate-related cause areas. Participants will gain valuable insights into the mechanics of impact investing in the climate sector and the transformative work of Prime Coalition. \nFeatured Guest\nSarah KearneySarah Kearney is the Founder and Executive Director of Prime Coalition\, a nonprofit public charity that partners with philanthropists to place catalytic capital into market-based solutions to climate change. She has designed and implemented interventions at the nonprofit/for-profit boundary of climate innovation since 2006\, first on behalf of a philanthropic grantmaking organization\, then as a scholar investigating both the innovation and philanthropy systems globally\, and then founding and building Prime. Prime is a 501c3 public charity founded in 2014 that invests in extraordinary companies that combat climate change\, have a high likelihood of achieving commercial success\, and are otherwise unlikely to be sufficiently supported. It has mobilized over $300MM in catalytic capital since its founding from over 250 philanthropic partners\, where 78 partners were first-time catalytic investors and 50 were first-time climate financiers. \nBefore Prime\, Sarah served as Executive Director and Trustee of the Chesonis Family Foundation\, a grantmaking organization that supports transformational energy research\, development and deployment. Her work at CFF led her to conduct research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where in 2012 she published her thesis “The Role of Philanthropic Capital in Entrepreneurship: An empirical analysis of financial vehicles at the nonprofit/for-profit boundary of science and engineering.” Based on her work\, Sarah was inducted into the Raven Society at the University of Virginia\, and has been awarded the 2012 MIT Ronald Heller Entrepreneurship Award\, 2014 Caltech Resonate Award\, 2014 Echoing Green Fellowship\, the MIT Technology Review’s 2014 35 Innovators Under 35\, and the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30. She was featured as ImpactAlpha’s “Agent of Change” in May 2020. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/pioneering-change-catalyzing-climate-solutions-with-sarah-kearney/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sarah-Kearney_Cropped-LOWRES-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88164953195 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20230821T161357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134606Z UID:10000086-1697716800-1697721300@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Addressing the Capital Challenge: Early-Stage Climate Tech Solutions DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nAddressing the Capital Challenge: Early-Stage Climate Tech Solutions with Jane Woodward \nThe urgent need to combat climate change has never been more apparent. Yet\, early-stage climate tech ventures face significant challenges in attracting the capital necessary to bring their innovative solutions to market. This gap represents not only a market failure but also a missed opportunity to accelerate the transition to a sustainable future. \nIn 2021\, Jane Woodward\, Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures\, with over three decades of experience in teaching at Stanford and investing in energy transition and decarbonization\, identified this critical challenge. She recognized that the market for US early-stage climate tech was poorly understood and that the timing was ripe for intervention. Many investors were understandably hesitant to invest in early stage\, given the small\, young\, and technical nature of most funds in a rapidly evolving and complex market. Jane's insights led to the creation of WovenEarth\, a curated and highly diverse fund of funds designed to address these challenges. \nDuring this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur's Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Jane Woodward to discuss the difficulties faced by early-stage climate tech companies in attracting capital. They will explore examples of fund managers and co-investments within WovenEarth's portfolio\, Jane's insights about the urgency of the climate situation\, and the broader opportunities that impact entrepreneurs and their climate tech solutions offer to help mitigate this extremely challenging situation. \nJoin us for an enlightening conversation that goes beyond investment strategies to delve into the heart of the climate challenge and the innovative solutions that hold the promise of a sustainable future. \nFeatured Guest\nJane WoodwardJane Woodward’s four-decade career has been focused on decarbonizing energy and earth systems as an investor and educator. Jane is Managing Partner at WovenEarth Ventures\, a Founding Partner at MAP Energy\, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where she has taught classes on energy and environment since 1991. Jane is an advisor and director for several energy transition companies and funds (Stem\, Fervo\, Project Canary\, Ambient Fuels\, Lilac\, Sandbrook). In 2016\, Jane created The Foster Museum\, a 14\,000-square-foot museum in Palo Alto\, to share artist-explorer Tony Foster’s powerful exhibitions of watercolor journeys with an intention to inspire connection to the natural world. Jane received her B.A. in Geological Sciences from the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and holds an M.S. in Applied Earth Science and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/addressing-the-capital-challenge-early-stage-climate-tech-solutions/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jane-Woodward-cropped-2022.10.02.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82347135559 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20230829T145509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134611Z UID:10000087-1695902400-1695906900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Financing Climate-Resilient Water Infrastructure for a Resilient Future DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nFinancing Climate-Resilient Water Infrastructure for a Resilient Future\nThere is an urgent need to expand and rehabilitate water supply and sanitation infrastructure globally to reach billions of people who are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.     \nWater supply and sanitation infrastructure has been historically underfunded. According to the World Bank\, investments in water supply and sanitation infrastructure must at least triple to fully achieve SDG6. Climate change will exacerbate the water crisis\, particularly for those living in poverty\, as increased storms\, floods\, and droughts damage infrastructure and increase water stress. While infrastructure investments have grown by 350% in the last decade\, only 1.9% of commercial financing went toward water and sanitation infrastructure specifically.     \nIn this Luminarias Series webinar\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes WaterEquity President Paul O’Connell and Director of Impact & ESG Genevieve Edens for a fireside chat to discuss the intricate interplay between financing climate-resilient infrastructure projects and empowering communities with equitable water and sanitation solutions.  \nFeatured Guest\nPaul O'Connell\n\n\nPaul O’Connell oversees and manages WaterEquity’s day-to-day activities. He brings over 25 years of experience in the research and practice of international finance and asset management to the organization. \nPrior to WaterEquity\, he spent more than 20 years as President and Managing Partner of FDO Partners\, LLC\, a quantitative asset manager providing currency and equity advisory services to sovereign wealth funds\, pension funds\, and other institutional investors. His research interests include exchange rate behavior\, international capital flows\, and labor migration\, and he has published extensively on thesetopics. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Emerging Markets Review\, and the Review Board for the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. \nPaul has been engaged with various development causes for almost two decades. In 2006 he served as an advisor to the Global Fund. From 2009–2015\, he served as board member and subsequently Chair of the Board of the GAVI Campaign\, the US arm of Gavi\, the Vaccine Alliance. From 2016–2022 he served on the Board of Water.org\, the non-profit organization which founded WaterEquity. He has spoken at TED about how capital markets can fund and accelerate sustainable development in emerging and frontier markets. \nPaul received a B.A. from Trinity College\, Dublin in 1992\, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1997. An Irish native\, Paul received his B.A. from Trinity College\, Dublin in 1992\, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1997. \n\n\n\nGenevieve Edens\n\n\n\n\nGenevieve Edens leads on impact and ESG at WaterEquity. In that capacity\, she develops policies and tools and is involved at all stages of the investment process. She brings 15 years of experience in impact management and research to this role. Previously\, Genevieve was Director of Research at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs\, a global network that supports entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Prior to ANDE\, Genevieve spent several years living in Tanzania where she worked for the coffee importer Sustainable Harvest\, sourcing coffee from smallholder farmers for the specialty coffee market. Genevieve received her Bachelor of Arts with high honors in History from Wesleyan University and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on analytics and responsible management from George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\n\nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/financing-climate-resilient-water-infrastructure-for-a-resilient-future/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Homepage-1.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87889740605 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20230619T152845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134601Z UID:10000085-1694692800-1694697300@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Nature: The Building Blocks of the Impact Economy DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nSince 2020\, we have been hearing that over 50% of global GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature. In reality\, 100% of human existence relies on nature. As the fundamental building block of life and the economy\, we need to shift our thinking on the value Nature brings to the Sustainability Transition and how it shows up on the balance sheet of the economy.  With Climate Week upon us and the release of TNFD's final framework\, now more than ever is our opportunity to include nature in every decision we make and every action we take. These thoughtful actions must shift global financial flows to innovate new and scale existing solutions\, resources\, and skills that contribute to nature-positive outcomes.    \nHari Balasubramanian\, founder of EcoAdvisors and EcoInvestors Capital\, is a proven sustainability expert who is driven by the belief that more capital\, and all types\, can be deployed to achieve positive impact. Hari helps create enduring and profitable social and environmental solutions across sectors\, asset classes\, and the capital stack. He has worked alongside over 300 projects in 5 languages and 60+ countries and influenced over U$4B in sustainability-oriented financing – helping protect threatened species\, forests\, oceans\, and the people who depend upon them.     \nIn this live virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Hari Balasubramanian to discuss the Sustainability Transition and how leaders engage and value Nature each step of the way — from prioritizing actions and setting targets to executing across value chains and managing and measuring progress.   \nFeatured Guest\nHari BalasubramanianHari Balasubramanian is a senior sustainability professional with experience in environmental finance\, sustainability integration\, impact investing and large-scale program development. Starting with coastal and marine projects\, he later led the monitoring and evaluation function at Conservation International where he oversaw hundreds of projects around the world. In 2012\, Hari traded in his SCUBA gear for a business suit and founded EcoAdvisors\, a Certified B Corporation® which advises governments\, corporations\, foundations\, and individuals on values alignment and capital disbursement. More recently\, he founded EcoInvestors Capital which invests for sustainability at scale. He currently serves as a Director for several environmental charities and funds\, a mentor to start-ups\, and an advisor to investors\, corporates\, and governments on the value of nature and the future of sustainability. In 2021\, Clean Leaders recognized him among Canada’s top impact consultants and enablers.  He holds a BSc in Biology from McGill University and an MSc in Geography (Distinction) from Oxford University.  \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/nature-the-building-blocks-of-the-impact-economy/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hari-Balasubramanian-cropped-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85276220578 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222545 CREATED:20230510T013912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134543Z UID:10000082-1686830400-1686834900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Making Wall Street Work for the 99% with Durreen Shahnaz DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nMaking Wall Street Work for the 99% \nGlobally\, almost 2.4 billion women of working age do not have equal economic rights as men due to legal barriers\, unequal pay\, and limited access to finance. In addition\, 56% of unbanked adults are women\, and this gender gap in bank account ownership is prevalent in developing markets. \nThe financial market has traditionally overlooked underserved groups\, especially women. It is crucial to transform the financial system to give them value and a voice in the global market for sustainable development. \nProf. Durreen Shahnaz\, the founder of Impact Investing Exchange (IIX)\, is a global leader in sustainable finance and draws from a rich career working on wall street\, where she broke down walls and built bridges to connect Backstreets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the world. \nJoin us in this Luminarias Series live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur's Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Durreen Shahnaz for an insightful discussion on key topics such as: \n\nAddressing the challenges of creating a sustainable global marketplace\nExploring the potential of impact investing for social and environmental change\nThe role of cross-sector collaboration in driving sustainable growth\nLeveraging emerging markets as hubs for innovation and impact\nFostering gender and diversity in entrepreneurship for a more inclusive market\nDeveloping a global sustainability framework for effective impact measurement and evaluation\n\nFeatured Guest\nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/making-wall-street-work-for-the-99-with-durreen-shahnaz/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Shahnaz_Durren_Headshot-WEB.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83741464038 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20230510T002701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134538Z UID:10000081-1685016000-1685020500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Bridging the Gap: Empowering Impact Managers in Accessing Capital DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nBridging the Gap: Empowering Impact Managers in Accessing Capital \nThe asset management industry is heavily influenced by gatekeepers\, such as Outsourced Chief Investment Officers (OCIOs)\, investment consultants\, and bulge bracket broker dealers. These key players act as intermediaries between capital providers (allocators) and fund managers (investors). However\, the business models of most gatekeepers present challenges in embracing new ideas and assessing impact opportunities. Consequently\, many exceptional impact managers\, including those head up by women and underrepresented minorities\, find it difficult to access capital through traditional channels. \nIn this Luminarias Series webinar\, Impact Entrepreneur's Laurie Lane-Zucker hosts a conversation with Priya Parrish\, CIO of Impact Engine\, to explore the ways in which impact managers can overcome these barriers and secure the necessary capital to drive change. The program will delve into the following topics: \n\nThe role of gatekeepers in the asset management industry and the challenges they pose for innovative impact managers.\nThe unique strengths and perspectives that women and minority impact managers bring to the table\, enabling them to effectively invest in underserved communities and businesses.\nStrategies for empowering impact managers in accessing capital\, including relationship-building\, education\, and field building.\nSuccessful case studies that demonstrate the power of inclusive investing and the positive impact it can have on marginalized communities.\nThe efforts of organizations like Impact Engine in breaking down barriers and fostering a more inclusive impact investing ecosystem.\n\nJoin us for an insightful discussion on the crucial role underrepresented impact managers play in the industry and the measures that can be taken to ensure their voices are heard and their initiatives supported. This program will offer valuable insights for impact investors\, fund managers\, and other stakeholders interested in promoting a more equitable and inclusive approach to financing social\, economic\, and environmental progress. \nFeatured Guest\nPriya ParrishPriya Parrish is Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Impact Engine\, a women-led and employee-owned institutional investment firm that has been working to build the impact ecosystem since 2012 through investments that deliver superior risk-adjusted returns and deep impact outcomes. Priya is responsible for fund and co-investment sourcing\, diligence\, and management. She is also a member of the Investment Committee.   \nPriya is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy and Impact Investor in Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business\, and serves as an adviser to investment firms and asset owners developing and managing impact investment strategies.    \nPrior to joining Impact Engine\, she served as Chief Investment Officer at Schwartz Capital Group\, a single-family office investing across global markets. Previously\, Priya was Strategy Head at Aurora Investment Management\, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund\, and managed development of investment products that incorporated ESG factors at Northern Trust Asset Management and KLD Research & Analytics.   \nPriya holds a B.S. in Business Management from Babson College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/bridging-the-gap-empowering-impact-managers-in-accessing-capital/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Priya-headshot.jpeg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81514940716 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20230318T220717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134524Z UID:10000078-1681992000-1681996500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:The Ideal Role of Catalytic Capital in an Impact Economy DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nCatalytic capital is foundational to the impact economy\, injecting patient\, risk-tolerant\, concessionary\, and flexible dollars to impact enterprises. For much of the past decade\, catalytic capital has arguably served as the “R&D” arm for the broader field\, helping to seed innovative impact investing market developments. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and confluence of global crises in 2020\, catalytic capital providers pivoted to flow capital to response\, recovery\, and resiliency interventions. Now in 2023\, amid a challenging\, dynamic economic and political backdrop\, what will be the ideal role of catalytic capital going forward? How can catalytic capital most effectively support early-stage impact ventures and the impact economy as a whole? \nJoin Impact Entrepreneur for a Luminarias Series Webinar to hear from field leaders on the following topics: \n\nBest practices and taking stock — what has worked well and what needs to evolve in how catalytic capital is deployed and leveraged\nDoubling down on policy progress - opportunities for the private sector to invest alongside government funds for sustainable infrastructure\, climate solutions and economic resiliency\nWidening the tent — bringing catalytic capital products to wealth management\n\nFeatured Guests\nJohn BalbachJohn Balbach is Director of Impact Investments at MacArthur Foundation. John is responsible for the operational management of Impact Investments\, including playing leadership roles with major initiatives such as Benefit Chicago and the Catalytic Capital Consortium. He also leads impact investing efforts to advance the Foundation’s Climate Solutions Big Bet. Prior to MacArthur\, John worked with Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase. He has also served on a National Science Foundation commercialization review committee\, managed and raised capital for an Impact Investing Fund focused on developing the Michigan life sciences sector\, advised industry-leading corporations on infusing cleantech solutions into their supply chains\, provided consulting services to leading nonprofit organizations with the Nonprofit Finance Fund\, and served as a strategic advisor to hundreds of founders of technology-based startup ventures through a Michigan economic development program. He holds a BS in Finance from Miami (Ohio) University\, an MA from St. John’s College\, and an MPA from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. \nTracy PalandjianTracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance\, a national nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. Since 2011\, the firm has pioneered impact investments including the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond. To date\, Social Finance has mobilized over $350 million in new investments to deliver measurable outcomes in education\, economic mobility\, health\, and housing. Social Finance also develops recoverable grant opportunities for donor-advised funds (DAFs)\, aiming to unlock the $200+ billion in DAF assets toward greater social impact. Prior to Social Finance\, Tracy was a Managing Director for eleven years at The Parthenon Group\, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice. She also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society\, Tracy is a frequent speaker and writer on ESG and impact investing\, social innovation\, and results-oriented policymaking. Tracy is a member of the Harvard Corporation\, is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance\, and serves on the boards of The Surdna Foundation and The Boston Foundation. She is also an Independent Director of Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG). A native of Hong Kong\, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School\, where she was a Baker Scholar. \nFran SeegullFran Seegull is President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance\, which works to increase awareness of impact investing in the United States\, foster deployment of impact capital across asset classes globally\, and partner with stakeholders\, including government\, to build the impact investing ecosystem. She also serves as Executive Director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing—a donor collaborative focused on growing the field. Previously\, Fran was the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at ImpactAssets where she headed investment management for The Giving Fund—now a $2B impact investing donor-advised fund. Fran has a BS in Economics from Barnard and an MBA from Harvard. She serves on the Investment Committee of Align Impact and the Advisory Boards of SOCAP and the CASE i3 Initiative at Duke. She tweets at @franseegull. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/the-ideal-role-of-catalytic-capital-in-an-impact-economy/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Homepage-2.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82709309018 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20230131T185010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134509Z UID:10000075-1680782400-1680786900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Defending ESG from the Trolls DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\n*IMPORTANT: This Webinar Has Been Postponed to April 6th* \n​Environment\, Social and Governance (ESG) and the impact investing industry has recently been subjected to a barrage of verbal attacks and state bans. A Florida law passed in 2022\, for example\, currently prevents the state’s pension funds managers from considering ESG criteria. A host of politicians\, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Rick Desantis have publicly trolled ESG as “woke capitalism.” \nDespite the attacks\, demand for ESG investing has become a dominant force that markets cannot ignore. In their annual Report on US Sustainable Investing Trends\, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing\, known as US SIF\, calculated sustainable investment assets under management to be $8.4 trillion in 2022. Growing numbers of investors are seeking sustainable investment opportunities that integrate environmental\, social\, and governance factors\, despite the efforts of divisive trolls who often seem to be attacking ESG for their own political gain. \nStephanie Cohn Rupp\, a Board Director at US SIF who has spent the last two decades of her career focused on economic development\, global Impact\, and ESG investing\, thinks that these attacks demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of ESG and ignorance of the potential risks for investors and politicians who dismiss it. Cohn Rupp has been working to get out the message that ESG is not an ideology\, it is a lens applied to investment due diligence that integrates real world impacts. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Stephanie Cohn Rupp\, CEO of Veris Wealth Partners – a wealth management firm founded with a 100% focus on impact and ESG investing – for a discussion about the realities of ESG and how each of us can help defend ESG from the trolls. \nFeatured Guest\nStephanie Cohn RuppStephanie Cohn Rupp is a Partner and Chief Executive Officer with more than 20 years of global impact investing experience. During her career\, Stephanie has focused on building scalable\, profitable\, sustainable businesses. Based in Denver\, she helps lead the firm’s impact wealth management growth strategies\, financial performance and client experience. \nBefore joining Veris\, Stephanie was Managing Director and Partner\, Head of Impact Investing\, at Tiedemann Advisors\, where she served clients as a wealth advisor and led the development of the impact investing platform and impact client experience. Prior to that\, she was CEO of Toniic\, a global community of impact investors which she grew tenfold. Previously\, Stephanie held globally focused investment roles at Omidyar Network\, PlaNet Finance\, UBS\, The World Bank and building greenfield micro-finance institutions financed by USAID. \nStephanie is a Board Director of the US Sustainable Investment Forum\, a member of the ImpactAssets 50 Review Committee and an advisory board member to Paris-based Investisseurs et Partenaires’ investment fund for Education in Africa. \nShe earned a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a French and U.S. binational and co-authored The ImpactAssets Handbook in 2017 with Jed Emerson. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/defending-esg-from-the-trolls-with-stephanie-cohn-rupp/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Stephanie_Cohn_Rupp.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84446627613 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20230114T005538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134455Z UID:10000073-1680177600-1680182100@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Using Integrated Capital to Build Community Wealth and Power DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIf we wish to address the growing wealth gap and ecological challenges of our times\, we need to create the opportunity for communities to own and control their future. That means circulating investment dollars locally\, transforming the governance structures that allocate capital so people most affected have the most say\, and designing investment approaches that make wise use of blended capital — integrating debt\, equity and grantmaking. This requires a whole systems approach to place-based change\, engaging all the stakeholders – entrepreneurs\, investors\, philanthropy\, anchor institutions\, policymakers\, professional service providers and community members–in building sustainable\, resilient\, and inclusive local economies.  \nIt also requires a willingness on the part of investors and philanthropists to challenge their current understanding of risk and return. In conventional finance\, investors try to transmute risk into return. Practitioners of solidarity finance redefine risk and transmute it into impact and power. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Deborah Frieze\, founder and president of Boston Impact Initiative and a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University’s Department of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning\, for a discussion of how to deploy integrated capital to build community wealth and power.​ \nFeatured Guest\nDeborah FriezeDeborah Frieze is a professor\, author\, entrepreneur and activist. She teaches impact investing at Tufts University’s Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. In 2013\, she founded the Boston Impact Initiative\, an impact investing fund working to close the racial wealth divide in Eastern Massachusetts. The fund takes an integrated capital approach\, combining investing\, lending and giving to build a resilient and inclusive local economy. Deborah is co-author (with Margaret Wheatley) of Walk Out Walk On\, an award-winning book that profiles pioneering leaders who walked out of organizations failing to contribute to the common good—and walked on to build resilient communities. She is also founder of the Old Oak Dojo\, an urban learning center in Boston\, MA. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/using-integrated-capital-to-build-community-wealth-and-power/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Deborah-Frieze-Photo.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84584462918 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20230125T214932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134501Z UID:10000074-1678968000-1678972500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Building an Entrepreneur-centric Impact Ecosystem DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nParticipants in the impact ecosystem — accelerators\, investors\, corporates\, higher education\, and other interested parties — all strive to support impact entrepreneurs according to their own unique strategies. Unfortunately\, these collective efforts can be mystifying and even counterproductive for the very entrepreneurs we seek to support. \nA better approach entails working together to evolve an ecosystem that offers a seamless continuum of technical support\, networks\, and capital to accompany entrepreneurs throughout their journeys. Collective solutions must overcome the capital mismatch between supply and demand\, ensure diversity and inclusion in the enterprises we support\, prioritize impact measurement and management\, and bridge partnerships with corporations and universities. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes social impact pioneer and global development leader Brigit Helms of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship for an in-depth conversation about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to centering impact entrepreneurs. Spoiler alert: It’s about connecting the dots rather than strengthening silos. \nFeatured Guest\nBrigit HelmsBrigit Helms is Executive Director\, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship\, the premier university-based social enterprise accelerator dedicated to eliminating poverty. For 30 years\, Helms has created and delivered solutions to social and environmental challenges in 45 countries across Africa\, Asia and Latin America\, in both the private and public sectors. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/building-an-entrepreneur-centric-impact-ecosystem/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Brigit-Helms-Image-Lower-Res-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82891108393 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20220808T235006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134422Z UID:10000067-1668686400-1668690900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Building a Vibrant Impact Ecosystem with Jim Sorenson DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nBuilding a Vibrant Impact Ecosystem with Jim Sorenson \nBuilding a robust impact investment market requires establishing a healthy\, supportive ecosystem. Impact investors\, just like conventional investors\, depend on the work of researchers\, advisors\, wealth managers\, entrepreneurs\, industry experts\, and others to make well-informed\, successful investments. Moving from a single bottom line to triple bottom line set of priorities\, however\, requires embracing additional complexities and utilizing creative problem-solving\, especially around such challenges as impact measurement. \nSuccessfully growing early-stage impact enterprises necessitates a similar level of comfort with complexity and creative experimentation. Strategic pivots and unorthodox funding strategies are often the norm for impact entrepreneurs and their businesses. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes one of the founding voices of the impact investing movement\, Jim Sorenson\, founder of the Sorenson Impact Group\, for a far-ranging conversation about impact investing\, impact entrepreneurship\, and impact field-building. \nFeatured Guest\nJim SorensonJim Sorenson is a global impact leader\, and one of the founding voices in the impact investment movement. Since the start of his career\, first as an entrepreneur and then as an investor\, Jim has focused on mission-driven investments that prioritize profit and purpose. \nThe son of a self-made billionaire and entrepreneur\, Jim grew up surrounded by innovation and business. When it came time to launch his own career Jim went off on his own before returning to the family business. In 2002\, he was about to fundraise for one of those businesses\, Sorenson Media\, when the dot.com bust derailed those plans\, forcing Jim and his team back to the drawing board. \nOut of that crisis Sorenson Communications was born\, a technology business that provides communications services for the deaf community. Sorenson Communications soon became the world’s largest employer of the deaf. In 2005\, the business was spun out and sold in what was the largest private equity deal in Utah to date. \nHis experience with Sorenson Communications opened Jim’s eyes to the real meaning of profit and purpose. Deaf educators estimate that the services provided by Sorenson Communications have increased employment for the hearing-impaired fourfold. \nIn June\, Jim launched Sorenson Impact Group (SIG) as a multi-faceted center for impact investing\, to advance the field of impact investing\, drive capital to impact investing\, institutionalize\, and scale the sector. At the Sorenson Impact summit\, also in June\, SIG announced that it was taking over the operations of SOCAP\, the cornerstone impact investing conference\, now in its 15th year. \nJim strongly believes that to solve the biggest challenges facing our society the impact ecosystem must align through a more holistic approach to impact investing\, with a focus on actionable results at scale. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/building-a-vibrant-impact-ecosystem-with-jim-sorenson/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Jim-Sorenson_headshot66.png LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86228731873 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20220906T235938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T191002Z UID:10000069-1668081600-1668086100@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Bridging the Gap Between Entertainment and the Impact Economy DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nEntertainment\, when effectively engaged\, is a powerful tool to effect social change and can be utilized by entrepreneurs as a catalyst for purpose and profit. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Paul Katz\, CEO of social impact agency Entertain Impact and veteran music industry executive\, to discuss the Influencer Effect\, the field of social impact entertainment\, edutainment\, and how to harness the power of popular culture to effect social change. There may not be a more significant time in our history when businesses\, non-profits\, entertainment\, creators\, and influencers\, can work together to meet the challenges of our time meaningfully. \nFeatured Guest\nPaul KatzWith multiple Grammy nominations under his belt\, Paul Katz’s approach to the field of cause influence - the use of pop culture to effect social change - is informed by his experience at Jive Records\, working with artists such as Pink\, A Tribe Called Quest\, and Britney Spears\, as well as his music work consulting for Oscar-winning films\, including 12 Years A Slave\, Green Book\, and American Factory. \nAs founder and CEO of Entertain Impact\, a leading social impact agency\, Katz has raised awareness\, support\, and funds\, inspired action\, and driven programs forward for philanthropic\, social justice\, and purpose-driven organizations over the past two decades—including the African Wildlife Foundation\, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\, National Trust for Historic Preservation\, Rotary International\, ELMA Philanthropies\, and WHO Foundation. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/bridging-the-gap-between-entertainment-and-the-impact-economy/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Paul-Katz-headshot-scaled.jpeg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87041681125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20220906T234419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T190935Z UID:10000068-1667476800-1667481300@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Moral Imagination\, Patient Capital\, and Their Roles in Solving Big Problems DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nToo many who yearn to make a difference become paralyzed by the fear of leaping without having worked out every detail. Yet the decision we face is not to chart the perfect way forward; it is simply to embark on the journey. In her latest book\, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution\, Jacqueline Novogratz\, founder and CEO of Acumen\, outlines concrete practices we can all use to jumpstart our own impact on the world. Change is possible\, she argues\, and because it’s possible\, it’s up to each of us to be part of that change.  \nThe critical ingredient for large-scale\, sustainable progress lies in moral imagination — which starts by viewing other people’s problems as if they were your own\, and discerning how to solve those problems. It requires both the audacity to see where you want to go\, and the humility to realize the scale of what we’re facing. In this intimate conversation and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Jacqueline Novogratz\, who will share her story of quitting her banking job to start a business in Rwanda\, which ultimately led to founding Acumen 21 years ago and forging the path for a now-thriving impact investing industry. She’ll explain the role of patient capital in building markets and solving the problems of poverty\, and the role that listening\, immersion\, and transcending our tendencies toward binary thinking plays in building dignity for all. \nFeatured Guest\nJacqueline NovogratzJacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen\, and a recognized leader and innovator in the social impact sector. Her work began in 1986 when she quit her job on Wall Street to co-found Rwanda’s first microfinance institution\, Duterimbere; the experience inspired her to write the bestselling book The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor\, and\, in 2001\, launch Acumen. \nA pioneer of impact investing\, Acumen has invested more than $146 million of patient capital into 151 companies affecting the lives of nearly 400 million people across Africa\, Latin America\, South Asia and the United States in the areas of clean energy\, agriculture\, healthcare\, and education.  Acumen also has launched four for-profit funds\, including KawiSafi\, a nearly $70 million impact fund focused on off-grid solar energy in East Africa\, and ARAF\, a first-of-its-kind $58 million fund focused on helping smallholder farmers mitigate the impacts of climate change. \nHer second book\, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World\, was named one of the top 10 social entrepreneurship books of all time. A recognized leader in the issue of poverty and the importance of dignity\, Jacqueline has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy\, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast\, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes. She lives in New York with her husband. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/moral-imagination-patient-capital-solving-big-problems/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jacqueline-Novogratz-Headshot2-2.png LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81027288435 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222546 CREATED:20220922T142708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T190819Z UID:10000040-1666872000-1666876500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Closing the Disability Wealth Gap Through Venture Investment DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nClosing the Disability Wealth Gap Through Venture Investment with Regina “Gina” Kline \nThe disabled population currently experiences crisis-level unemployment and a lack of capital investing in early-stage solutions. According to the United Nations\, 1.5 billion people globally live with disabilities\, which is almost 20 percent of the world’s population. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s working-age persons with disabilities (PWD) are not employed. All in all\, it is estimated that the global GDP loses approximately $1.9 trillion annually due to exclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. \nThe investment case for investing in innovation at the nexus of disability and tech could not be stronger\, yet the disability market is massively underserved and undercapitalized. There are more than 2.5 billion people who would benefit from assistive products. People with disabilities alongside their friends and family control over $13 trillion in global disposable income. The US assistive tech market will be valued at $26 billion by 2024. The global disability community is expected to increase from 1.5 billion people to 3.5 billion by 2050 as populations age and the rate of non-communicable diseases rise. \nEnable Ventures is the first impact venture fund dedicated to closing the disability wealth gap while achieving competitive\, market-rate returns. It is supported by SmartJob\, a platform to attract disability deal flow\, and support and build the disability innovation ecosystem. Enable Ventures is part of the Sorenson Impact Platform of Funds. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes founder and CEO of Enable Ventures\, Gina Kline\, for an in-depth discussion on how to close the disability gap by investing in some of today’s most exciting innovations at the intersection of disability and tech\, and the potential for these innovations to improve all of our lives. \nFeatured Guest\nGina KlineRegina “Gina” Kline is an investor\, entrepreneur\, civil rights lawyer\, and thought leader dedicated to building the future of work by advancing the rights and interests of people with disabilities as innovators\, workers\, business owners\, and consumers. She is the founder and Managing Partner of Enable Ventures\, the first impact venture fund dedicated to closing the disability wealth gap while achieving competitive\, market-rate return. She is also founder of SmartJob\, a platform to attract disability deal flow\, and support and build the disability innovation ecosystem\, and a 2022 recipient of a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action. ? Previously\, Gina led a successful career as a civil rights attorney which included working at the U.S. Department of Justice\, Civil Rights Division\, where she successfully led efforts to dramatically improving working conditions and the employment of people with disabilities. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/closing-the-disability-wealth-gap-through-venture-investment/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Gina-Low-res-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86048716788 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20220628T165422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T185326Z UID:10000065-1659009600-1659014100@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Innovating New Financing Solutions to Advance the SDGs DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nFinance is not working for people or the planet. We need to act to change this. \nThere is a significant gap between this growing awareness and tangible actions that will result in better outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the annual SDG financing gap to $3.7 trillion in 2020\, up from $2.5 trillion in 2019 (OECD) – a drop in the ocean compared to the claimed ESG investment universe. It is certain that in the current landscape of small\, separate sustainable finance initiatives\, often focused in high- and middle-income countries\, we will not deliver the change at scale needed across the financial system globally. A transformational shift in how we think about capital\, the role of capital in society\, and the private sector is needed. \nIn this special fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes the Director of UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub\, Marcos Neto\, to discuss the innovative instruments for attracting and disbursing significantly greater amounts of impact capital and exponentially growing the business/finance sector’s social and environmental impact. \nWe will discuss\, among other topics: \n\nA new normal where enterprises’ role moves from maximizing profits to maximizing economic\, social\, and environmental impacts or\, to put it even more ambitiously\, our collective human and planetary wellbeing\nInstruments that enable businesses and investors to continue to be profitable and become more equitable economic models fit for the future\nUNDP’s relationship to countries and the private sector in this journey\n\nFeatured Guest\nMarcos NetoMarcos Athias Neto joined UNDP in February 2013 and has since led UNDP’s global work on private sector development and foundations\, first at UNDP’s headquarters in New York and then\, from November 2014\, as head of the Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD). In April 2019\, Marcos returned to New York to lead the establishment and management of UNDP’s new Finance Sector Hub. \nMarcos led the development of UNDP’s new private sector strategy and its offers on SDG Finance. He co-chairs the executive boards of the Business Call To Action and the Connecting Business Initiative. Apart from his role at UNDP\, Marcos also serves on the Supervisory Boards of CARE International and the Museum of Tomorrow International. \nOver the past 25 years\, Marcos has been a leader in sustainable development\, poverty eradication and multi-stakeholder partnership building. He is a passionate advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining UNDP\, Marcos spent 17 years at CARE International. During his tenure at CARE International\, Marcos served in numerous roles including Regional Manager for Asia and Latin America at CARE UK\, Executive Director of CARE Brasil\, and Program Director in Central America. \nMarcos has lived and worked in Central and South America\, Europe and the United States and has also worked in Asia\, Middle East and Africa. He is a lawyer by training\, with a Master of Laws from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Marcos is married and has two children. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/innovating-new-financing-solutions-to-advance-the-sdgs/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Marcos_A_Neto.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81111787297 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20220612T193308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T185124Z UID:10000064-1656590400-1656594900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:The Resilience Imperative DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nThe Resilience Imperative: Innovating and Investing Like Our Future Depends on It \nToday\, there are many important global issues\, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and COVID\, which vie for our attention. But we cannot afford to take our eyes off the threat of global warming. Everything that we know and love depends on collective climate action. \nClimate-related disasters\, spurred on by rising emissions\, are growing in frequency\, severity\, and scale\, reaching ominous and unprecedented proportions around the world. Epic disasters\, damages\, and losses will define the 21st century unless we invest in climate resilience - now. Yet\, one of the biggest challenges we face is how to make our communities more resilient. Real resilience is based in coordinated community action that is backed by data and analytics. To get there\, we need investment in climate resilience efforts that will prepare society and the economy to respond and recover from the effects of climate change. \nToday\, efforts to increase resilience in communities are fragmented\, especially so in frontline communities and contested environments. This lack of integration and information coordination across the various actors and agents necessary to stabilize communities is exacerbated by 1) a failure to address the communities’ inability to properly absorb capital (both human and financial)\, and 2) by a lack of innovation in exploring ways to invest more appropriately in the vanguard communities that bear the first and worst of climate change. \nIn this live webinar and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Green Jobs Machine co-founder & CEO Sharron McPherson to discuss the resilience imperative and how impact investors and entrepreneurs can effectively tackle the biggest social and environmental challenge of the century. \nFeatured Guest\nSharron McPhersonA reformed investment banker and Wall Street attorney\, Sharron McPherson is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Green Jobs Machine\, a resilience tech company committed to helping communities globally thrive in adverse climate conditions. She is a leading expert on the impact of advancing technologies that drive sustainable growth and development. Sharron is co-founder and Former CEO of one of Africa’s largest women’s infrastructure investment groups\, the WINDE Consortium (Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy). She is a founding director of Singularity University South Africa and is a former Executive Director of the Centre for Disruptive Technologies\, a “think & do” tank based in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her life’s passion is to measurably help improve the lives of a billion people by reimaging how we leverage advancing technologies to unlock a better world. \nAn accomplished public speaker\, moderator\, and published author with a lifetime interest in building better communities through social impact investing\, Sharron has addressed a wide range of audiences\, including TED and the World Economic Forum. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/the-resilience-imperative-with-sharron-mcpherson/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/S-McPherson-Headshot-3-May-2022-scaled.jpeg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83341410291 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20220504T150117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T184843Z UID:10000061-1654776000-1654780500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Challenging the Big Money Myths with Deb Nelson DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIn her recent article for Impact Entrepreneur Magazine\, Deb Nelson\, founder and executive director of the Just Economy Institute\, writes\, “Our culture encourages excessive consumption\, financial systems were designed to be complicated\, and money myths are hard to escape”. \nNelson goes on to deconstruct several deeply seated myths about capital and wealth\, including: \n\nYou shouldn’t talk about money\nMore money means more happiness\nYou shouldn’t just give people money\nWhen it comes to financial decisions\, leave it to the money experts\nMoney will protect you\n\nIn this Luminarias live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker explores with Deb Nelson these five money myths and why it is important to debunk them. She will offer examples of “financial activists” that are “shifting the flow of capital and power” to advance sustainability goals and build the impact economy. \nAbout Luminarias\nLuminarias is a live video webinar series featuring the leading lights in impact investing and entrepreneurship. \nFeatured Guest\nDeb NelsonDeb Nelson is Executive Director of the Just Economy Institute. She launched the Just Economy Institute in 2021 to train and support financial activists who are shifting the flow of capital and power to solve social and environmental problems. Her leadership draws on more than two decades of work with social entrepreneurs\, impact investors and donors to build the networks and structures needed to create positive systems change. \nShe developed and incubated the Just Economy Institute\, formerly the Integrated Capital Institute\, for five years as vice president of client and community engagement at RSF Social Finance\, from 2016 to early 2021. Her initiatives there also included launching the impact sector’s first Women’s Capital Collaborative in 2016. The fund provided integrated capital—loans\, grants and other forms of financing and support—for women-led social enterprises that serve women and girls. \nPrior to joining RSF\, Nelson was executive director of Social Venture Network for 15 years\, leading a community of over 500 mission-driven entrepreneurs\, business leaders and investors dedicated to using business for social and environmental good. The organization merged with the American Sustainable Business Council in 2021 to form the American Sustainable Business Network\, a movement builder working with companies\, investors and policymakers. \nNelson is a pragmatic idealist. Her social conscience blossomed early—she marched for the Equal Rights Amendment as a 12-year-old and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon—and she has earned recognition for her effectiveness. Nelson was named a 2019 “World-Changing Woman” by Conscious Company magazine for her pioneering work advancing economic justice\, women’s rights and diversity in leadership. In 2015\, Real Leaders magazine named her one of 100 Visionary Leaders. She has written for publications including Worth\, See Change and TriplePundit\, was quoted in Newsweek and The New York Times\, and has spoken at the White House\, SOCAP\, TEDx Presidio and other events. \nNelson is a leading voice on how to change the way our economy works—and whom it works for. She is an articulate source on the growing movement of financial activists\, what it will take to create an economy that serves all people and the planet\, how to build high-impact collaborative programs\, why we need more women in positions of power and influence\, and capital strategies that help social enterprises grow. She resides in San Francisco and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/challenging-the-big-money-myths-with-deb-nelson/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Deb-Nelson.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83646227348 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20220201T181812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T004410Z UID:10000054-1650542400-1650546900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Investing in Locally-led Rural Resilience with Willy Foote DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\n​Globally\, 2.5 billion people rely on smallholder agriculture for their livelihoods. Farming families lack access to critical resources like business knowledge\, market connections\, and financing. Fortunately\, there's a solution. Agricultural enterprises are engines of impact in rural communities\, connecting farmers with higher prices on the international market and helping them tackle some of their most dire challenges: gender inequity\, youth unemployment\, cycles of poverty\, and the impacts of climate change. But these enterprises are unserved by financial institutions. They fall into the "missing middle" of agricultural finance — too big for microfinance yet too small for a commercial bank. \nIn 1999\, Willy Foote founded Root Capital to close that rural financing gap and unlock impact in their communities. Root Capital leverages blended finance to extend credit to these enterprises while building their business and agronomic knowledge so that they can build their long-term resilience. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Willy Foote to discuss the story of Root Capital and how to use catalytic capital to drive impact in rural communities. Over the conversation\, we'll learn about: \n\nRoot Capital's novel triangulated payment model that allows them to make loans that other financial institutions don't\nThe lessons learned over the past twenty years as they've moved from focusing on bankability to building the long-term resilience of their clients; and\nHow agricultural enterprises are uniquely positioned to promote gender equity\, include young people\, and unlock grassroots climate action in rural communities.\n\nFeatured Guest\nWilly FooteWilly Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital\, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a pathway to prosperity by investing in agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since 1999\, Root Capital has provided more than $1.6 billion in loans to 740 agricultural businesses in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America reaching 2.3 million smallholder farmers and over 10 million people in rural communities. \nFoote is a Skoll Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Global Fellow. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008\, one of Forbes’  “Impact 30” in 2011\, was a 2012 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute\, and was the 2020 Northeast Honoree for the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) Global Impact Awards. He served for nearly a decade on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)\, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and YPO\, and serves on the Strategic Advisory Council of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. Foote holds an MS in development economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Yale University. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/investing-in-locally-led-rural-resilience-with-willy-foote/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Willy-Foote_GREEN_2019-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86267752019 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20220115T190259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T004128Z UID:10000053-1645099200-1645103700@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Building a Global Impact Culture Through Development Finance DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nAchieving authentic sustainable development requires more than simply increasing capital and deal flows. It also requires creating a “culture of impact” within organizations\, countries\, and across international borders. Development finance can play an important role not only in providing and catalyzing investment in businesses and projects that advance sustainability goals\, but also by supporting the formation of a global impact culture anchored to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen\, Vice President of Development Policy at the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC)\, and former Director of SDG Impact at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)\, to discuss: \n\nThe ways in which development finance can contribute to the building of a global impact economy\nHow funding institutions can most effectively move from high-level principles to executing and deploying capital\nHow the DFC is introducing new approaches\, systems\, and instruments aimed at amplifying the impact it has through its investments\n\nFeatured Guest\nElizabeth Boggs DavidsenElizabeth Boggs Davidsen is a Senior Executive\, advisor\, and global expert in social innovation and impact investing with the strategic vision to create and deliver financing and business models that produce sustainable\, scalable business development. Currently\, Ms. Boggs Davidsen is a political appointee with the Biden Administration and the Vice President of the Office of Development Policy at the U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In this role\, she is responsible for ensuring that all DFC projects have measurable development impact\, respect human rights\, and are environmentally and socially sustainable. She also oversees the Corporation’s technical assistance portfolio. Prior to her work at DFC\, Elizabeth was the Director of SDG Impact\, a flagship initiative of the United Nations Development Programme focused on mobilizing private sector capital in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. For the majority of her career\, she held leadership roles at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington\, D.C. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/building-a-global-impact-culture-through-development-finance/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EBD2-pic-4.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88469263880 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20211208T141011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134243Z UID:10000045-1639656000-1639660500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Activating Impact Investors at Scale to Achieve the SDGs DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nAccording to the United Nations\, “between $3.3-4.5 trillion per year needs to be mobilized if we hope to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Much of that funding needs to go to efficiently capitalizing impactful\, entrepreneurial business solutions. There are growing numbers of entrepreneurship centers and accelerators devoted to impact entrepreneurship\, yet there are relatively few centers and accelerators focused on nurturing and activating new impact investors. \nHow do we create an effective infrastructure to welcome and activate the thousands of high-net-worth individuals\, hundred thousand foundations\, four thousand family offices\, and thousands of corporations that are primed to become impact investors? What are the most efficient and effective ways to engage\, educate\, and activate them? \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Stephanie Gripne\, founder and CEO of the Impact Finance Center\, for a discussion of how to activate impact investors at scale and best direct their capital to early-stage impact enterprises. \nFeatured Guest\nStephanie GripneStephanie Gripne founded Impact Finance Center to develop the groundwork for a model that identifies\, educates\, and activates said investors. Investor Clubs create a marketplace for these investors to discover investment opportunities that align with their values. In addition to these clubs\, the Impact Investing Institute was founded as an Ed Tech platform to bring the idea of Full Spectrum Capital to a broader audience\, no matter what their needs are. Lauded by Forbes as “the Steve Jobs of impact investing”\, Stephanie is continuously innovating Impact Finance Center’s model\, which empowers asset owners to become the philanthropists and impact investors they dare to be. Early evaluation efforts of her work indicate that 300 direct impact investments totaling over $500M have been completed. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/activating-impact-investors-at-scale-to-achieve-the-sdgs/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Steph-Gripne-Photo.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85458285917 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T144500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20211112T173221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T134234Z UID:10000049-1638365400-1638369900@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Impact Investing at the Crossroads DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIn his recent Impact Entrepreneur Magazine article\, Impact Investing Needs Better Returns to be Sustainable\, growth equity investor Clemens Feil argues that\, “the key issue is that lower returns decrease the attractiveness of the impact investing industry. Over time\, commercial interest in it will wane\, reducing the available capital\, and thus creating a vicious cycle that makes it harder for local entrepreneurs to build businesses and create prosperity. Therefore\, the highest priority for emerging markets impact investors must be to improve returns.” \nIn contrast\, impact investor and author (Adventure Finance) Aunnie Patton Power\, in an Impact Entrepreneur webinar\, asserts that “private equity is not correct for 99% of impact enterprises”\, in part due to the gulf separating the expectations between equity investors and impact enterprises. She proposes a range of more attractive\, patient\, and\, at times\, “concessionary” options\, including\, in a recent IE Magazine article\, Revenue-based Financing. \nHow should one balance these two visions? Or are they incompatible with each other? If so\, what does it mean for the future of impact investing and the funding of impact enterprises? In this Impact Entrepreneur live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes IE Magazine authors Clemens Feil and Aunnie Patton Power to discuss their contrasting perspectives on impact investing and financing impact enterprises. \nFeatured Guests\nClemens FeilClemens Feil is a growth equity investment professional at the largest global development finance institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. Clemens has a decade of private equity investing experience\, including at Bain Capital\, Clayton\, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)\, and Neuberger Berman. Clemens has a BSc from the London School of Economics (LSE)\, an MA from Columbia University\, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. \nAunnie Patton PowerAunnie Patton Power is a university lecturer on Innovative Finance\, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact and an advisor on these topics globally. At the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School\, she holds the title Associate Fellow as well as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. She also is a founding member of the Dazzle Angels\, a female angel investing group. A reformed M&A investment banker\, Aunnie began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups\, intermediaries\, funds\, family offices\, foundations\, corporates\, and governments across Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and North America. Aunnie's work has been published throughout the world\, including by the Oxford University Press\, the Stanford Social Innovation Review\, the World Economic Forum\, and as Massive Open Online Courses on Coursera and GetSmarter. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/impact-investing-at-the-crossroads/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/clemens_patten.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88072637599 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20211019T160616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T001213Z UID:10000048-1636632000-1636636500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:Law and the Impact Economy DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nThe Impact Economy requires a fundamental reassessment of the goals and practices of business and finance. Policies and laws can be either a help or hindrance in moving the economy toward authentic sustainability and supporting businesses that have measurable social and/or environmental aims built into their DNA. \nLawyers play a critical role in determining how the necessary paradigm shift is done\, financed\, and regulated\, and how the ecosystem functions. For example\, the foundational notions of stakeholder capitalism and circular economy need not only clarifying principles and effective measures but also a bulletproof set of mechanisms for them to not only be usefully implemented but truly transformational. \nIn practice\, when the triple bottom line enters seriously into the conversation\, many conventional assumptions and methodologies break\, and new models and instruments need to be crafted. Lawyers are needed to navigate this increasingly complex geography — testing their values\, legal acumen\, and creativity. \nIn this live fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes distinguished attorney Chintan Panchal\, who has co-created and facilitated the launch of numerous scalable and investible solutions that address social and environmental targets for clients around the world. The conversation will center on the role of the law and of lawyers in a rapidly changing landscape driven by impact enterprise and finance. \nFeatured Guest\nChintan PanchalA transformative figure and influencer since the early days of impact investing\, Chintan Panchal is recognized for his ability to use the levers of finance and law to create novel transaction frameworks that address some of the most pressing global challenges around the world. Chintan is a Founding Partner and head of the U.S. region at RPCK\, Rastegar Panchal\, a global boutique law firm that specializes in co-creating and facilitating the launch of scalable and investible solutions that address social and environmental targets. \nRPCK works closely with leading family offices and foundations\, high growth companies\, and investment funds around the globe and across a broad spectrum of industries on a range of capital investments that generate social and environmental impact alongside market rate\, risk-adjusted financial returns. \nChintan has helped architect a number of groundbreaking transactions for clients around the world that have become templates for the rest of the industry\, and is a recognized speaker at industry conferences around the country. \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/law-and-the-impact-economy-with-chintan-panchal/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ChintanPanchal.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83515532463 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222547 CREATED:20210919T232903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T001121Z UID:10000044-1634817600-1634822100@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:The Impact of the Creative Economy DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIn her article\, Impact Investing in the Creative Economy Today\, Upstart Co-Lab Founding Partner Laura Callanan writes\, “The creative economy is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy\, it is also highly transformative in terms of income generation\, job creation\, and export earnings. But opportunities are often unevenly distributed and\, unless efforts are made\, the environmental toll of this growth can be severe. There is the chance now – before the sector grows even larger – to shape the creative economy to be more inclusive and sustainable.” \nIn this live\, virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Laura Callanan to discuss the important role that the Creative Economy has in inspiring transformational change and creating impactful benefits across a wide geography of economic sectors\, such as Ethical Fashion\, Sustainable Food\, Social Impact Media\, and other creative businesses. \nFeatured Guest\nLaura Callanan\n\n\nLaura Callanan\, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab\, is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting impact investing to the creative economy. Laura was senior deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts leading grant-making\, operations and research before launching Upstart Co-Lab. Laura was a consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office and associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation where\, in addition to responsibilities managing the endowment\, she co-led impact investing including investments in the creative economy with Smithsonian Folkways Records and netomat. Laura has been visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco\, scholar in residence at UC-Berkeley/Haas School of Business\, visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome\, and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship. She is a board member and immediate past chair of the GlobalGiving Foundation\, is an advisor to Shift Capital\, and a member of the British Council Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries – International Council. \n\n\n\nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/the-impact-of-the-creative-economy/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Laura-Callanan-photo-credit-Helga-Sigvaldadottir-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89066551329 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T222548 CREATED:20210912T161656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T000016Z UID:10000039-1633608000-1633612500@impactentrepreneur.com SUMMARY:21st Century Investing: Driving Systems Change DESCRIPTION:LuminariasThursday\, November 21\, 202412:00 PM - 1:15 PM\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Tickets\n\n \n \n \n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n Tickets are no longer available \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nStream This Program\nIn their new book\, 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change\, authors William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg assert that\, “investment today has evolved historically from a basic\, conventional approach (concern about the risks of security selection and portfolio risk management) to embrace as well sustainable investment (intentionally achieving social and environmental benefits along with financial returns). Building on this integration of sustainability factors\, it can now transition to a third stage that recognizes both the power of investments to impact social\, financial\, and environmental systems and the complexity of the times we live in. We call this system-level investing”. \nSystem-level investors believe that “it is time to support and enhance the health and stability of the social\, financial\, and environmental systems on which they depend for long-term returns. They preserve and strengthen these fundamental systems while still generating competitive or otherwise acceptable performance.” In this live virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A\, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes William Burckart to discuss the context\, philosophy\, and practical implementations of systems-level investing. \nGuest\nWilliam BurckartWilliam Burckart is the President of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP)\, a consulting services and applied research firm that provides advice\, thought leadership and a turnkey solution to help investors manage systemic risks and opportunities. He has also contributed to the field through groundbreaking research\, including the development of market insights and practical guidance for investors and financial advisors in collaboration with the Money Management Institute (MMI); co-editing the New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (Oxford University Press); and helping to write the “Status of the Social impact investing Market: A Primer” (UK Cabinet Office) that was distributed to policymakers at the inaugural G8-level forum on impact investing. Mr. Burckart is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute and co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler\, 2021). \nHost\nLaurie Lane-ZuckerLaurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur\, PBC\, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large\, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs\, investors\, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur\, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years\, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability\, social enterprise\, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization\, Orion Society\, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine\, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank\, the Triad Institute\, and Hotfrog\, a Founding B Corporation\, GIIRS Pioneer Company\, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry\, Barry Lopez\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific\, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book\, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy\, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026\, with global distribution by Penguin Random House. URL:https://impactentrepreneur.com/event/21st-century-investing-driving-systems-change/ CATEGORIES:Luminarias ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://impactentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Burckart-headshot.png LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81400172560 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR