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SIDCO - Sustainable Innovative Design & Construction builds Passive Zero Emission Homes to combat Climate change using all the Tesla’s technologies. These homes are designed with PHPP software from Germany.…

To achieve the new global goals of ending preventable infant morbidity, mortality, and malnutrition by 2030, radically-new approaches that promote and support breastfeeding in low- and high-income countries must be…

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the US requires a multigenerational solution. This interactive panel will present current and proposed solutions engaged with a niche group: college students of color…

How do five different social impact investors seek to build capacity and drive solutions to scale in the education sector?

Preparing for the physical impacts of climate change will require massive investment in public and private infrastructure, as well as a renewed focus on the most vulnerable communities in the…

As social impact researchers, we hear a consistent refrain: impact enterprises say they can’t attract funding, and investors say there are too few investable enterprises. Whatever the cause, it’s impeding…

Recent studies show that 100% alignment of one’s investment capital and values is possible today for a wide range of investors. Geography is no barrier, nor are particular causes or…

Intermediaries can be a powerful partner for incubating new social ventures, scaling existing initiatives and managing the complexity of multi-stakeholder collaborations, and yet for many the role simply conjures added…

India and the United States – the world’s two largest democracies – are both major hubs for social innovation and global leaders in impact investment. But despite the strong linkages…

From Chance the Rapper’s social entrepreneurship efforts in Chicago to Netflix picking up a project (with Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o) after initially being tweeted as a ‘joke’ on Twitter, then…

With a combined track record deploying $30M of impact capital in social enterprise equity investments, PRIs, and new market tax credits, as well as $396M in mission-related lending by Beneficial…

How can smaller countries/regions put themselves on the social venture and impact investing map? How might we distribute the benefits of this movement more widely, particularly in developing regions? And…

Ten years of direct impact investments have taught us a lot about what type of capital works well for social enterprises. Spoiler alert: it’s not always venture capital. We explore…

This session will explore how innovative real estate planning and development can result in attractive social, environmental and economic returns. The panelists will walk through the Renaissance Downtowns model in…

When we ask “Is it worth it?” we are trying to measure one category of thing against a different category of thing. For example, “Is sleeping an extra 20 minutes…

Enabling the Entrepreneur as a purpose driven impact to ecomomy

Is it possible to create financial alpha in conjunction with impact alpha? Achieving the SDGs while also driving meaningful financial return, requires engagement from all categories of investors across all…

The Regional Opportunity Index (ROI) is an index of community and regional opportunity for understanding social and economic opportunity. The goal of the ROI is to help target resources and…

The demand for affordable housing in the US continues to grow as incomes stagnate, housing costs rise and subsidies decline. This level of demand means that market risk is low,…

Let’s face it, no single venture or investment is going to really move the needle on the bigger systems issues we face. Through the lens of big questions surrounding sustainable…

Learn about the power of social labs, social sculpture and design thinking to put communities in command of their futures. We’ll walk through cases showing how strategies that put those…

In this interactive session, participants will find out how small and medium sized businesses can help make a dent in the SDGs by commercializing agricultural products and services in emerging…

The evidence is clear - diverse and inclusive organizations produce better results. So why is there still a lack of diverse representation at mission-driven, impact focused organizations? In taking steps…

The world’s population is increasing. The oceans are overfished. Meat production is untenable. Insects, which are packed with protein and already consumed by myriad cultures throughout the world, may very…

Southeast Asia and the Pacific region is lagging behind other regions in the amount of impact investment assets under management. This panel of actors are working to change this. Australia…