Fund the Change, Not Just the Gap: Lessons from Practitioners Building the Solidarity Economy
Track
Pathways to Shared Prosperity
Format
The Collaborative Forum ((Up to 3 Facilitators/Speakers))
Speakers
- NameLubna Elia
- TitleManaging Director, Impact Capital Lab
- OrganizationBoston Impact Initiative
- NameAbbeygale Anderson
- TitleManaging Partner
- OrganizationCross Impact Capital
- NameBlair Evans
- TitleNetwork Member
- OrganizationPeople’s Network for Land & Liberation
Description
What does it look like to fund systemic change, not just systemic access? This session brings together three models of integrated capital, each with a different theory of how money shifts power, builds ownership, and grows the solidarity economy.
In this World Café session, participants rotate through three small-group discussions with mission-driven venture funds disrupting capital markets from within: an impact-first fund advancing community and worker ownership, a CDFI advancing regenerative finance, and a venture firm unlocking DAF capital to close opportunity gaps.
This session will be highly interactive and generative. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how capital can catalyze systemic change and advance your own impact thesis.
