Catalytic Capital Forum

Achieving meaningful sustainability and social progress requires collaboration across the entire financial spectrum.

Join us to demystify catalytic capital, bridge silos, and help build the financing ecosystems that scales sustainable development solutions.

The Catalytic Capital Forum brings together leaders from philanthropy, impact investing, and sustainable development innovation to explore how diverse forms of capital can work in concert to accelerate sustainable social and environmental solutions.

What to Expect

This convening will unpack how each layer of the capital stack plays a vital role in de-risking innovation, scaling proven models, and unlocking private sector participation. You'll hear from practitioners deploying capital across different instruments and share insights into how cross-sector partnerships can unlock systems-level impact.

Key Themes

• How philanthropic and impact capital complement one another

• Examples of blended finance structures mobilizing capital for sustainable energy, adaptation, and resilience

• Collaborative pathways between foundations, investors, and entrepreneurs

• Actionable partnerships that leverage the right capital for the right stage of innovation

Join us to demystify catalytic capital, bridge silos, and help build the financing ecosystems that scales sustainable development solutions.

Participating Organizations*

• Acumen

• CARE

• ImpactAssets

• LEBEC

• MacArthur Foundation

• Prime Coalition

• The Schmidt Family Foundation

• Terraset

• Woodcock Foundation

*subject to change

Who Should Attend

Leaders and decision-makers from private foundations, public foundations, endowments, donor-advised funds, impact investors, fund managers, and climate-focused organizations.

Program at a Glance

9:00 am

• Arrivals - Registration/Networking

  
  

9:30 am

• Opening Remarks

  • Richard Zimmerman, Executive Director, Foundation House

    
    

• Fireside Chat: Landscape of Catalytic Capital

  • Debra Schwartz, Managing Director, Impact Investments, MacArthur Foundation

    
    

• Panel: Catalytic Capital & Foundations

  • Moderator: Chintan Panchal, Founding Partner, RPCK

  • Stacey Faella, Executive Director, Woodcock Foundation

  • Alix Lebec, Founder & CEO, LEBEC

  • Kyle McEneaney, Program Director - Climate Tech, Schmidt Family Foundation

    
    

• Panel: From Capital to Deployment

  • Moderator: Natalia Alvarez de Jesus, Program Officer, Foundation House

  • Sarah Bieber, Director of Climate Strategy, Acumen

  • Sarah Kearney, Founder & CEO, Prime Coalition

  • Sandra Osborne Kartt, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, ImpactAssets

    
    

• Panel: Catalytic Capital In Action

  • Moderator: Alix Lebec, Founder & CEO, LEBEC

  • Adanna Chukwuma, Associate VP for Economic Growth & Private Sector Engagement, CARE

  • Adam Fraser, CEO, Terraset

  
  

• Closing Remarks

  
  

12:10 pm

• Roundtable Lunch and Networking

  
  

1:00 pm

• Event Concludes

Who's in the Room

*The RSVP list will be updated on an ongoing basis. If you prefer to keep your name private, contact Jaclyn at jaclynl@foundationhousect.org

Jasmine Aarons, Amazon Investor Coalition

Marc Altman, Evergreen Climate Innovations

Rob Bachmann, Enterprise Community Partners

Caleb Ballou, Trimtab

Lorenzo Bernasconi, Carbon Balance

Sarah Bieber, Acumen

Zack Braunstein, Climate Connectors | Climate Bonds Initiative | Work on Climate

Ina Jamuna Breuer, NEID Global

Danielle Capalino, Neta Foundation

Michelle Carr, Evergreen Climate Innovations

Simona Ceci, Dara Strategies

Adanna Chukwuma, CARE

Darlene R. Currie, Global Social Impact Fund (powered by ImpactAssets)

Julie Davenson, University of Vermont

Andrew Eil, Consultant

Stacey Faella, Woodcock Foundation

Melissa Fensterstock, Material Impact

Xaira Ferrara, Acumen

Howard Fischer, Gratitude Railroad

Carlotta Franchin, GEDI

Adam Fraser, Terraset

Tim Freundlich, ImpactAssets

Caroline Greer, Commonfund

Safia Gulamani, Convergence Blended Finance

Ronald Gutstein, COtwo Advisors

Nancy Hament, Investableoceans.com

Katie Hill, Morgan Stanley, Polk Wealth Management Group

Katie Hoffman, Etho Capital

Emma Hubbard, Acumen

Taylor Insley, Terraset

Max Jawer, Jonathan Rose Companies

Julie Johnson McVeigh, Nia Impact Capital

Tracy Joseph, Reimagine Capital Advisors

Sandra Kartt, ImpactAssets

Sarah Kearney, Prime Coalition

Tami Kesselman, LOHAS | ReThink Packaging Alliance

Toren Kutnick, Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation

Schuyler (“Sky”) Lance, SustainVC

Christopher Landino, Career Resources, Inc.

Laurie J Lane-Zucker, Impact Entrepreneur, PBC

Alix Lebec, LEBEC

Justine Lee, ClimateHaven

Tony Lent, Capital for Climate

Jeremy Levinson, Bernstein PWM

Sarah Linder, Fundamental Venture Studio

Paulina Markiewicz, MoonRiver Ventures

Edward Marshall, Developing World Markets

Chris Maher, Samaritan Partners

Kyle McEneaney, The Schmidt Family Foundation

Susan McPherson, McPherson Strategies

Lisa Miniter, LAM Consultancy

Brian Mizoguchi, Finpublica

Alekhya Mukkavilli, The ClimateWorks Foundation

Grace Mumford, Terraset

Kristian Nammack, Matinecock Capital

Chintan Panchal, RPCK

Manoj Panjwani, Enable Impact

Rasika Parkhi, CapShift LLC

Suzanne Pelletier, Rainforest Foundation US

Ryan Petersen, Petersen Consultants

Roraj Pradhananga, Veris Wealth Partners

Curtis Probst, NYCEEC (NYC Energy Efficiency Corp.)

Claire Raffel, Collective Climate Justice Fund

Kishore Rao, Evergreen Climate Innovations

Virginie Raphael, FullCircle

Marie Rocha, Realist Lab

Chandra Roxanne, TLT CAPITAL

Matan Rudis, Wild Assets

Scott Ryan, Investature

Debra Schwartz, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Manu Sharma, CARE

Paula Sheu, Global Social Impact Fund

Karen Simons, Hudson Varick Resources

Etana Solomon, Etana Impact Consulting LLC

Erzsi Sousa, Terraset

Deborah Stern, Capital for Climate

Karen Sunderam, ImpactAssets Capital Partners

Desiree Tavera, Far Away Projects

Agnes Terestchenko, ISS STOXX

Nina Tschinkel, Catalyst

David Tswamuno, Fairbridge

Eric Tucker, Impact Alternatives, LLC

Kate Wade, Galvanize

Liz Walsh, Neta Foundation

Chris Wedding, Terraset

Lindsey White, Prime Coalition

Iain York, The Mission Investments Company

Raylene Yung, Activate

Brooke Zhang, Tailwind Futures

Richard Zimmerman, Foundation House

Robert Zulkoski, Conduit Capital