W10: Personal Impact
🛎 Weekly Summary
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Week 10: Your Impact Journey
What You Need to Do:
🗣️ Community Call - Your Impact Investing Learning Journey and Peer Practice Space for Teams
Description: Today, we will take some time to start putting into practice what we have been learning. Think of this as a chance to integrate the learnings and resources you've been picking up over the last two months as part of this learning journey. We will spend a good amount of the session in our Peer Groups as we embark on Peer Action April - there will be some activities we will complete in groups to help you find. In addition, we'll explore our own personal impact that we can have through our work. Do join us.
🪛 Skill Session - Impact Reporting Webinar
Brought to you by our past Fellow Lisa Knob and her work as a researcher and academic perspectives. The whole panel looks great as they will explore the Impact Frntiers performance metrics and will be of relevance to many in your group.
🪛 Skill Session - XXX
See below for the details and relevant resources for this skill session:
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🧠 Impact Investing Knowledge
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Recommended Resources:
Recommended Readings:
🧰 Additional Learning Resources
📅 Related sessions & offerings
Additional opportunities and events will be added here for you to check out on
April 8th:
Finpublica - Liberty, the Markets and Sustainability: The Capitalist Case for Sustainable Finance - Panel Discussion
Please join Finpublica, Impact Capital Forum, and Liberty Ventures for an insightful discussion exploring the intersection of both capitalist and conservative principles and sustainable finance. Our expert panelists will discuss how market-driven solutions can advance sustainability, while maintaining economic freedom and financial growth.
Featuring leading voices in finance, policy, and business, this event will provide a fresh perspective on impact investing, sustainable finance, and responsible capital allocation—all through a conservative and capitalist lens.
Speakers include:
Alexander McCobin: Founder and CEO at Liberty Ventures
Eli Lehrer: President at R Street Institute
Robert Smith: President & Chief Investment Officer at Sage Advisory Services
The event will be moderated by:
Jennifer Simpson: COO Galway Sustainable Capital (and the Founding Executive Director of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship)
When: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 4pm ET
Where: Virtual (so anywhere)
Cost: None
April 9th:
Women, Technology, and Resilience in the Financial Ecosystem - MicroLoan Foundation
We are excited to invite you to a special webinar: Women, Technology, and Resilience in the Financial Ecosystem, hosted by MicroLoan Foundation in collaboration with the Swiss Capacity Building Facility (SCBF) on Thursday, April 9, at 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST.
This webinar will explore how technology can empower women to build resilience in the face of economic challenges. We’ll highlight key insights from the development of the Katumba Savings Product, a digital savings solution designed specifically for women living in extreme poverty in Zambia.
Developed by MicroLoan Foundation, Katumba provides an accessible, user-friendly way for women to save, borrow, and manage their finances—despite limited education and no prior access to formal financial services. During the webinar, we’ll discuss how we successfully designed technology tailored for women in poverty who have limited access to digital tools and financial services.
Learn how technology is transforming financial inclusion in Zambia.
Understand the role of digital solutions in addressing gender disparities in financial access.
Discover how Katumba, a USSD-based savings platform, is enabling women to build financial resilience.
Engage with experts on the challenges and future of digital financial products in underserved communities.
To register for the webinar and receive a free recording, please click the link below!Register Here!
April 9th:
April 10th and 11th:
Invest in New England Conference
https://newengland.investmentproject.org <— register here if you are in the area
About the Event
While New England’s foundations, philanthropists and mission-driven institutions have long supported programs and grantmaking with a place-based lens, much of their remaining assets (the “other 95%”) remain invested in the global markets and/or minimally aligned to their mission. However, a growing movement among philanthropists, including many organizations here in New England, are exploring and implementing additional ways to put their financial assets to work in local communities through place-based, impact investing.
On April 10 and 11, the New England Impact Investing Initiative (NEIII) and the Community Investment Project will host a mini-conference for foundations, philanthropists and mission driven institutions to explore the growing practice of place-based impact investing. We will highlight a diversity of local organizations who have moved their investment dollars to communities throughout New England and explore a range of strategies to make mission-aligned transactions a reality and improve outcomes for New England neighbors and neighborhoods.
The event hopes to:
Explore “place-based” impact investing opportunities in the New England region, with a diverse group of local foundations, philanthropists and mission driven institutions passionate about making a difference in their local communities.
Highlight some leading, regional approaches to impact investing that bridge cities, suburbs, and rural regions in more sustainable and interconnected economies.
Dive more deeply into place-based impact investing approaches to understand what it takes to move from grants-only strategies to incorporate different capital tools.
Create opportunities for foundations, philanthropists and impact investors to connect, learn, share insights and explore opportunities for greater collaboration to strengthen New England’s local investment ecosystem.
For more information about Invest in New England, contact Travis Green.
Quick Links:
📹 Week 10 Recordings & Resources
Community Call 10 Personal Impact and Community Change - How to make It possible in our work practice space
📹 Watch Here
📓 Session Slides
🙆♂️ Speaker's Bio - Jordyn Middlebrooks
Resources from Jordyn Past Session - Google Drive
jordyn middlebrooks jordyn@reimaginewealth.net
workshop description: developing communities of practice that further a Just Transition
bio copy: jordyn middlebrooks (they/she) jordyn middlebrooks (they/she) is a financial planner, money coach, and community organizer based in Tonkawa, Jumanos, Comanche, Coahuiltecan, and Lipan Apache land aka "Austin, TX". jordyn centers their work around building the world that they hope to one day actually live in, one where there are system-level alternative, permanent, and accessible, safety nets that shift the paradigms of power so that we all are able to meet our needs and thrive.
jordyn holds a Series 65 license and is a member of:
Resource Generation (a multiracial membership community of young people with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power)
Rad Planners (a group that organizes progressive financial professionals to further a just transition).
before delving into the world of finance, jordyn co-led the Sunrise Movement Austin, TX hub and worked in the Renewable Energy and Technology sectors.
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