SOCAP Global

In our July newsletter, we invite you to explore the #SOCAP24 agenda, developed around the theme of Going Deeper: Catalyzing Systems Change! Along with engaging content sessions, this year's flagship convening focuses on building meaningful relationships and collaborations across silos toward investible, scalable solutions. Learn more here: https://hubs.la/Q02Jr1Fq0 Not subscribed? Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter with news, inspiration, and opportunities for the impact community: https://hubs.la/Q02JrlKc0 [Image description: Graphic reads: Free Impact Community Newsletter. Find ideas, monitor trends, and make connections within the growing community building the impact economy.]

Get to know the #SOCAP24 Fellows! This year’s Fellows represent founders creating incredible solutions to pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges around the world. From empowering access to quality healthcare for all to combating climate change and building thriving communities in rural and underserved areas, these innovators underscore the invaluable role entrepreneurs play in creating the impact we need to achieve a more just and sustainable world. 👏🌏 All of the selected Fellows are investment-ready, for-profit entrepreneurs who have social impact as a core focus of their venture and are actively seeking funding. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gZhfCB3n • Adeola Alli | OneHealth • Erika Boeing | Accelerate Wind • Aarav Chavda | INVERSA Leathers • Asher Hasan MD | doctHERs • Kevin Wolz | Canopy Farm Management • Nona Yehia | Vertical Harvest Farms • Aurelien Chu | Eskwelabs • Ali Khursheed | Aabshar • Anne-Christine Lacombe Mortimer | BYOTI Salon de Beauté • Pajani S. | Amazonia Impact Ventures • Lorena Gallardo | ReciVeci • Felipe Guevara Cisneros | AWA Nutrition Holdings Inc. • Suraj Nandakumar | ReCity Network • Wesley Owiti | Cherehani Africa • Mark Pascall | The Wellbeing Protocol • Marie-Reine Seshie, MBA | Kola Market • Daphne Ngunjiri | Access Afya • Olivia Onyemaobi | Pad-Up Creations LTD • lewitt Somarajan | WOSCA's Life-Lab Science Program • Weswa Ivan | African Community Center For Social Sustainability (ACCESS-Uganda)

It's that time of year again where we get to promote our incredible Fellows who are joining us at SOCAP Global this year. All of our entrepreneurs are doing deep, impactful work all across the globe from a variety of different sectors. Each week, we will be featuring one of them for our community to get to know and hopefully, to connect them with potential funders and others in our network. This week, I am excited to introduce to you all, Aarav Chavda, Co-Founder and CEO of INVERSA Leathers, which has created a new category of leathers, Invasive™ Leathers, each one addressing a unique environmental crisis. By removing harmful animals, INVERSA accomplishes two things: creating beautiful leathers for the fashion industry and reviving ecosystems around the world. For more about their venture, visit their website at https://lnkd.in/ecA6sRcv

"The best, most effective, most authentic real estate and housing strategies hold community at the center. They’re done in collaboration with the community, not to the community by an outside group.” – Nina Tschinkel, Vice President at Catalyst Opportunity Funds This new Money + Meaning episode features leaders in healthcare and finance who discuss how they’re partnering and innovating to address the housing affordability crisis through models that expand the housing stock and provide wraparound services for social and financial impact: https://lnkd.in/gSpMbmW8 Tune in to hear from: • Andy McMahon, Vice President of Impact Investment of UnitedHealth Group • Celia Smoot, Senior Vice President of KeyBank • Jeremy Keele, Managing Partner of Catalyst Opportunity Funds • Nina Tschinkel, Vice President at Catalyst Opportunity Funds [Image description: Graphic for the Money and Meaning episode "Cross-Sector Collaboration Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis."]

Imagine ✨ : having hundreds of hours of conversations 👩💻 with thought leaders, partners, experts, and friends about a unique set of questions that unites us: ❓ What are the most pressing topics in your side of the impact sector that we must absolutely talk about? ❓ Whose voices are we missing and should be elevated? ❓ And, how do we present this content in a compelling way that breaks silos and questions our own echo chambers? The result of these hundreds of hours is what we celebrate at SOCAP Global today: we released our early preview of titles featured in this year’s SOCAP Global Agenda. You can take a look at what we are planning here 👉 https://lnkd.in/enWcjfA2 Here is a taste of what is coming: 🗒 Evaluating AI Companies and Products: A Hands-on Workshop for Investors (Ravit Dotan, PhD) 🗒 How Can We Transform the Stories that Maintain Broken Systems? (Akira Nakahara, Ellen McGirt, Trevor Smith) 🗒 Systemic Change: Addressing Racism, Intergenerational Trauma, and Mental Health in Impact Investing (Jimmie Briggs, Dr Olajide Williams, Lori Rose Benson, #chuckD ) 🗒 Impact Acquisitions Funds: Surfing the ‘Silver Tsunami’ towards Regenerative Economic Transition (Cordell Jacks, Allegra Stennett, Carla Langhorst ) 🗒 Scaling an Amazon Forest-Based Food Systems (Augusto Bauer, Marcelo Cwerner ) 🗒 Putting Nature on the Balance Sheet: Transitioning Corporate Responsibility from the CSO to the CFO ( Samantha Power, Gilad Goren, Natural Capital Project ) Plenty more where this came from! You can jump directly to the agenda preview here: https://lnkd.in/e_JbK5z7 Who is coming to SOCAP? Will I see you there? 🤚 (please, mention friends who should be there too!)

We love this clip of Joshua Haynes, Founding Partner of Masawa, live from #SOCAP23. ⭐️ Joshua has vast experience in mental health and well-being and helped shape the "Well-Being for Impact" track at last year's convening. We will be building further at this year's event, centered around the theme of Going Deeper: Catalyzing Systems Change. #SOCAP24 will encourage our community to critically examine our practices and challenge ourselves to delve deeper. Explore the agenda here and meet us in San Francisco this October! https://hubs.la/Q02HFz900

Check out this unique opportunity for investors + spread the word! #SOCAP24 attendees can join our Investment Matching Program to help identify investment opportunities aligned with their specific areas of interest. Our partners at Toniic will apply their innovative investment matching technology to pair investors with entrepreneurs from the 2024 SOCAP Fellowship, a highly curated and competitively selected cohort of investment-ready social enterprises. ⭐️ Interested in participating? Learn more here (and register for SOCAP24 if you haven't already!): https://hubs.la/Q02HfZxP0 [Image description: Investment Matching Program. Toniic + SOCAP24.]

The 2024 #SorensonImpactSummit brought together thought leaders from various sectors and around the world to work toward one common goal: build a brighter future. Attendees challenged one another with compelling and inspirational conversations, shared ideas, best practices, and lessons learned, and leaned on each other to identify new ways forward. The Summit aims to inspire outcomes that move beyond the status quo and extend beyond the event itself. In this roundup of key insights from the event, we explore common themes and the most significant takeaways that can influence positive change within the impact investing community and beyond.

📢 There’s still time to save $700 on your #SOCAP24 ticket! Register now before the ticket price goes up to $2,299 at midnight PT. Now is the time to dig in — to impact, to bridge divides, to envision a new system, to build a stronger community. Join us in San Francisco from October 28 to 30 and be part of the movement. We hope to see you there! https://hubs.la/Q02GMd0p0 [Image description: Last chance to save $700. Register now. Full price $2,599. Current price $1,899.]

🎟️ ICYMI: The #SOCAP24 ticket price goes up tomorrow! Register today today to save $700 off the full-price ticket. https://hubs.la/Q02GD9yX0 Plus, explore the just-released #SOCAP24 agenda and plan your trip! SOCAP24 will take place from October 28 to 30 in the heart of San Francisco. Changemakers from across the impact ecosystem and around the world will gather to connect, collaborate, and find inspiration to catalyze systems change. Join us as we further facilitate authentic relationship-building across silos, geographics, approaches, and philosophies to move capital toward investible, scalable solutions. https://hubs.la/Q02GDvnv0 [Image description: Last chance to save $700. Price goes up July 16! Register now. Full price $2,599. Current price $1,899.]