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.

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 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 responsibility.