New Frontiers in Funding, Philanthropy and Investment (Virtual)

New Frontiers in Funding, Philanthropy and Investment

Join us for these hybrid sessions as part of the wider conference, and let's open up a conversation about re-imagining our future.

So what's going on?

A 2-day live-streamed conference bringing together innovators across the philanthropic and investment worlds, to learn from one another and make new connections. We want to explore approaches in investment and philanthropy that are actively challenging practices that prop up aspects of current systems that are not serving people and planet well. And we want to highlight financing and funding practices that have the potential to invest in - and even speed up - a transition towards a regenerative, fairer future.

How do I join online?

The sessions will be held on Zoom and a link will be sent our to registrants in the lead up to the event - you'll get some reminders as we get nearer the time.

Day 1 - Thursday 14th July

The conference will open with a conversation between Dame Caroline Mason, CEO of Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Kieron Boyle, CEO of  Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, and Impact on Urban Health.

Day 1 panels will include the following -

• The scale and depth of change needed
• Mission aligned endowments and responsible investment
• The plurality of transition / What needs funding or financing in transition
• A finance ecology
• New financial instruments to shift who owns the future
• Next generation asset holders: regenerative wealth stewardship
• Changing Places - an exploration into power, equity and accountability in foundations through the lens of those working to transform it

Day 2 - Thursday 15th July

Day 2 panels will include the following -

• Taking account of philanthropy's extractive past - a reparative future
• Innovations in philanthropic practise
• Risk and opportunity: a new framework

Speakers confirmed so far include :

Alastair Parvin, Open Systems Lab

Ali Torabi, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Alisha Pomells, London Funders

Amahra Spence, MAIA Group

Amir Rizwan, Big Society Capital

Anasuya Sengupta, Who's Knowledge?

Annette Dhami, Dark Matter Labs

Bea Karol Burkes

Callum Pethick, The Blagrave Trust

Dame Caroline Mason, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Catherine Howarth, Share Action

Colin Mevlin, Arkadiko Partners

Daze Aghaji, Earthrise Studios / Blagrave Trust

Derek Bardowell, Ten Years' Time

Eli Manderson Evans

Farah Elahi, Greater London Authority

Farzana Khan, Healing Justice London

Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Laboratorio Para La Ciudad

Gemma Mortensen, New Constellations

Geraud de Ville de Goyet, Barking + Dagenham Giving

Giulio Quaggioto

Graham Leicester, Transformative Innovation

Imandeep Kaur, Civic Square

Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs

Jayne Engle, Sacred Civics

Jen Hooke, Thirty Percy

Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson

Kerry McCarthy, KClarity

Kieron Boyle, Guy's & St. Thomas' Foundation

Kris Archie, The Circle

Laurence Meyer, Racial and Social Justice Lead

Lily Lewis, The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust

Louisa Mann, Skagen Conscience Capital

Louise Armstrong, System Change Lab

Luam Kidane, Thousand Currents

Maria Ortino, LGIM

Mariene Engelhorn, Author

Mathu Jeyaloganathan, Unltd

Matthew Lawrence, Common Wealth

Mita Desai, Young Trustees Movement

Nonhlanhla Makuyana, Decolonizing Economics

Pia Mancini, Open Collective

Rebecca Gowland, Patriotic Millionaires

Rick Alexander, Shareholder Commons

Rose Longhurst, Open Society Foundations

Sadaf Shallwani, Firelight

Sarah Teacher, Impact Investing Institute

Stephanie Brobbey, The Good Ancestor Project

Suzy Glass, Independent Consultant

The Grant Givers Movement

Vanessa Thomas, Decolonizing Wealth

Yuan Yang, Financial Times

A full agenda can be found on the JRF Events Page.

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