Honest Money: What Funders Get Wrong About Wealth-Building and How to Fix It

The impact investing field has spent decades talking about closing wealth gaps through entrepreneurship. Yet funders and capital allocators often design grants, loan products, and investment vehicles that inadvertently create friction for the entrepreneurs they claim to serve. This practitioner-grounded working session surfaces mismatches between philanthropic design and wealth-building outcomes, then moves into co-creation. A short discussion led by Lindsay Siegel of New Majority Capital, family office whisperer Qiana Patterson, and Eventnoire founder Jeffrey Osuji anchors the problem from multiple vantage points: nonprofit intermediary, capital access strategist, and entrepreneur. Attendees then co-create solutions relevant to their work.