How localized capital allocation can drive meaningful economic and social change for women and marginalized communities. An interesting conversation focused on gender lens while celebrating Women’s History Month.
Total Impact Summit ‘25 will provide the opportunity to educate yourself, connect with community, and - most importantly - become equipped with the resources you need to transform your investments to align with your values.
Join us at our happy hour in the new year to hear about our 2025 programming. We welcome the impact community - impact investors, family offices, philanthropists, financial professionals, social entrepreneurs, and others who want to align financial assets with values in order to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient regional economy.
During the holiday season, learn more about the current methods for philanthropic donors to give more through moving their invested capital into mission aligned values for impact.
This is a non-partisan event to explore how various electoral outcomes — based on who won the White House and Congress — will likely shape public policy that could influence sustainable investing trends for the next four years and beyond.
Learn about the diverse roles impact lawyers play in advancing social justice, environmental sustainability, and economic development.
Unleashing Scale Through Creative Financing, Partnerships, and Business Models
Join Invest for Better at a Women’s Social to learn about their work and connect with other women investors.
A conference focused on recent trends and developments in financing investments in energy efficiency and sustainability for commercial real estate assets.
With the support of Halloran Philanthropies, join ImpactPHL at SOCAP24. This year, our focus is to showcase and cultivate place-based/local investing leadership across the United States. Within our theme, the Power of Place, we will hold four activation sessions one on each day of the convening impact ecosystem.
Unleashing Scale Through Creative Financing, Partnerships, and Business Models
Join SBN for a conversation between on how local businesses can navigate the grant application process.
Join us at our fall happy hour that welcomes the impact community - impact investors, family offices, philanthropists, financial professionals, social entrepreneurs, and others who want to align financial assets with values in order to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient regional economy.
Total Impact Summit ‘24 will provide the opportunity to educate yourself, connect with community, and - most importantly - become equipped with the resources you need to start or take the next step in aligning your investments with your values and deploying capital into place-based solutions.
Join us for an event to connect around where our city is going in terms of arts and culture. We invite investors, culture-bearers, arts practitioners, and all other local community members who are interested in connecting on this thinking for a social in a center city art gallery.
Join us for our first in person event in 2024! This happy hour welcomes the impact community - impact investors, family offices, philanthropists, financial professionals, social entrepreneurs, and others who want to align financial assets with values in order to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient regional economy.
Please join us for a casual social and cash bar happy hour to connect with investors, businesses, practitioners, and other leaders that have participated in or are interested in the work of PAGE Capital, The Hurdle Fund, and - more broadly - connecting capital for racial justice and equity in the Greater Philadelphia region. If you’re interested in applying for a Hurdle Fund grant or contributing to the fund, please reach out to Melina Harris at mharris@economyleague.org.
This discussion will focus on the impact of impact investment on accelerating minority-led enterprises. We’ll look at case studies on the catalyzing effect of impact investment capital, why it is important for promoting racial and economic equity, and how to deploy more capital for maximum benefit.
Learn how corporations are reshaping their business strategies, in reaction to the expansion of regulatory mandates for sustainability-related disclosures, growing concerns over climate change, and the political backlash against ESG.
Join As You Sow and ImpactPHL for happy hour to learn more about shareholder advocacy, aligning your investments with your values, and inspiring change through corporate action. Come for a lively discussion on climate, clean energy transitions, and ways you can make a difference with Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow.
In our August ImpactPHL Conversations session, we will explore fair chance hiring practices, returning citizen entrepreneurs, and the importance of networks as tools that can be used to positively change the outcomes highlighted above.
In our July ImpactPHL Conversations Session, we will focus on Philadelphia Green Capital Corporation (PGCC), a non-profit spinoff of the municipal Philadelphia Energy Authority, that is finding ways to use financing layer models and tools to support the clean energy transition in the City of Philadelphia.
Total Impact Summit 2023: Investing for People, Planet, and Place is a two-day, dynamic event for individual investors, family offices, foundations, fund managers, and financial advisors to connect with aligned peers and partners, learn about proven and new investment tools, meet leaders of investable opportunities, and move toward investment action.
This ImpactPHL Conversations panel will share their insights on the state of place-based investing, their experiences and learnings in cultivating local impact investing ecosystems, and critical assets that other ecosystems builders would need to do the same in their respective places.
Hear from leaders working across U.S. geographies on the importance of blended finance as a tool, their own experiences and needs, and what lessons they’d share with investors considering blended investments.
Join us for our first in person event in 2023!
In the first installment of the 2023 ImpactPHL Conversations Series, Ryan Bowers of Activest, speaks with Adriana Abizadeh of the Kensington Corridor Trust, and Nia Evans of the Boston Ujima Project. Learn how these leaders are building a reimagined future of shared local culture, places, and economic determination by focusing on and pioneering neighborhood engagement alongside collaboration strategies to problem-solve for community growth.
There is currently a movement, in Philadelphia, that believes crowdfunding is a critical financial element in the financial success and stability of socially impactful businesses. Our panelists, George Cook, Brian Nagendra, and Peter Leone will investigate whether groups that have historically been underrepresented in capital markets gain additional access to capital markets through crowdfunding.
We have received a commitment from four of the most prominent impact-related organizations in the Greater Philadelphia area to gather one hundred (100) investment professionals, endowment/foundation leaders, and impact investors, at The Racquet Club of Philadelphia, to discuss the use of blended finance and how it can be used to move dollars from the balance sheets of endowments/foundations to affordable housing projects and Black, Brown, and women-owned businesses.
As fall approaches, we invite you to join us for a drink to reflect, make new friends, and catch up with old ones. This happy hour welcomes the impact community - impact investors, philanthropists, financial professionals, social entrepreneurs, and others who want to align financial assets with values in order to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient regional economy.
Fashion is a $3B industry ripe for disruption. As the demand for sustainable products continues to rise, global preference and greater investment in sustainable business have an opportunity to meet that demand. Hear from 2 founders from the Greater Philadelphia region who are paving the way and proving that sustainability can actually result in more profit for a investors.
Over 99% of plastic is made from fossil fuels. Learn about the unintended risk investors have in their investment portfolios as well as the companies in the Greater Philadelphia area that are turning the tide and making a difference in this space. Our panelists will show how you too can make a difference.
