When Capital Breaks: Redesigning finance for community sovereignty

Impact investing often treats exclusion as a pipeline problem solved through better data, technical assistance, or patient capital. In practice, many community‑governed systems cannot conform to market assumptions because of structural realities such as non‑seizable land, collective governance, protected assets, and long‑term stewardship obligations.
This collaborative forum brings practitioners together to examine how capital is being redesigned under these conditions. Participants explore sovereignty‑aligned, Indigenous‑led, Black‑led, and place‑based financial models to understand how guarantees, risk allocation, governance, and returns change when capital adapts to communities rather than forcing communities to adapt to capital.