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Event Insights
In case you missed it or just need a refresh, here is where you'll find the recaps from our latest events. Additionally, we go beyond the highlights to share the key takeaways, expert perspectives, and actionable ideas that emerged from the conversation. Whether you were in the room or following from afar, catch up on what you need to know and discover how these dialogues are shaping our collective work.
Unlocking Capital for Women: What We Learned and What Comes Next
On September 10, Foundation House convened nearly 80 investors, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and practitioners for Women in Impact II: Society. The morning moved quickly from inspiration to action, examining what it takes to move more capital to women and girls, close gaps in health and wealth, and build financial tools that meet women where they are.

Foundation House
4 min read


Accessibility: Expanding Opportunity. Accelerating Impact.
More than a billion people around the world live with a disability. Add aging populations and caregivers, and this community is one of the largest, fastest growing, and most under-served segments in the global economy. Yet the July 10 gathering at Foundation House opened with a simpler observation: most products, programs, and capital flows still are not built with these people in mind.

Foundation House
4 min read


From Inequity to Integrity: How Climate Justice Unites Environmental, Social, and Mental Wellbeing
We explore how climate justice serves as the bridge between ecological health, human dignity, and psychological resilience—and why integrity in our actions can transform inequity into shared flourishing.
Richard Zimmerman
10 min read
Blue Finance for Restoring Ocean Health
On June 5, a diverse community of ocean advocates, funders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and creatives gathered at Foundation House to explore a central question: how can blue finance move at the pace and scale that ocean health demands?

Foundation House
3 min read


Water: Essence of Life and Pathways to Sustainability
Water is more than a resource. It is relationship, rhythm, and renewal. Long revered as sacred, water is now a frontline witness to climate disruption, injustice, and ecological imbalance. This Impact Insights paper explores water not just as a commodity, but as a living essence—holding the key to both survival and regeneration. As droughts deepen and access grows more unequal, how we relate to water reflects how we relate to life itself.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
Conscious Capital: Translating Wisdom into Action
Foundation House hosted a series of conversations exploring how wisdom, ancestry, and community can reshape our relationship with capital, climate, and each other. Participants reflected on money as energy, capital as a flow, and the need to move from extraction and scarcity toward stewardship, reciprocity, and long term care. Together, these dialogues traced a through-line from personal healing to systemic transformation, inviting a different story about value, growth, and r

Foundation House
3 min read


The Spirit of the Earth: Climate, Consciousness, and Wisdom Traditions
The Spirit of the Earth: Climate, Consciousness, and Wisdom Traditions explores how ancient teachings, from Indigenous knowledge to spiritual heritage, can inform modern solutions. By integrating time-tested principles with today’s science and systems thinking, we can foster resilience, regeneration, and a renewed sense of interdependence between people and planet.
Richard Zimmerman
6 min read
Being REAL: Community, Connection, and Mental Health
On April 3, The REAL Mental Health Foundation brought together a community united by a shared belief: mental health is foundational to a meaningful life, and community is one of the most powerful tools we have to protect it. The session explored how personal stories, catalytic capital, and intentional community design can transform the landscape of men's mental health and, by extension, families and wider society.

Foundation House
3 min read


Climate Anxiety: A Growing Concern for Younger Generations
Climate Anxiety: A Growing Concern for Younger Generations explores how climate anxiety, a chronic fear and distress about environmental collapse, is rapidly rising, especially among Gen Z and Millennials.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
Northeast Food Systems Forum
On March 13, over 40 food practitioners from across the Northeast gathered at Foundation House to explore how regional collaboration can strengthen our food systems.

Foundation House
3 min read


Voices of Impact: The Unfinished Debt for Black Veterans with Richard Brookshire & Kyle Bibby of the Black Veterans Project
A conversation with Richard Brookshire and Kyle Bibby, Co-CEOs and Co-Founders of the Black Veterans Project. What started as a shared instinct that something wasn't being said about the Black veteran experience has grown into one of the most consequential reparations fights in the country.

Foundation House
20 min read


Voices of Impact: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Ocean with Lea D'Auriol of Oceanic Global, the NGO running World Oceans Day
A conversation with Lea D'Auriol, Founder & Executive Director of Oceanic Global. From festival in Ibiza, to now running World Oceans Day at the UN with a full decentralized team.

Foundation House
12 min read


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