CDFIs turn financial access into community power. This panel explores how policy, capital, and local relationships shape who can build and grow wealth, and how CDFIs can help close persistent financing gaps. Leaders will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing community lenders, the policies that influence their work, and practical ways to expand responsible capital for entrepreneurs and communities. We'll also explore how CDFIs can strengthen their role as trusted partners in building a more inclusive, prosperous economy.
CDFIs turn financial access into community power. This panel explores how policy, capital, and local relationships shape who can build and grow wealth, and how CDFIs can help close persistent financing gaps. Leaders will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing community lenders, the policies that influence their work, and practical ways to expand responsible capital for entrepreneurs and communities. We'll also explore how CDFIs can strengthen their role as trusted partners in building a more inclusive, prosperous economy.
CDFIs turn financial access into community power. This panel explores how policy, capital, and local relationships shape who can build and grow wealth, and how CDFIs can help close persistent financing gaps. Leaders will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing community lenders, the policies that influence their work, and practical ways to expand responsible capital for entrepreneurs and communities. We'll also explore how CDFIs can strengthen their role as trusted partners in building a more inclusive, prosperous economy.
Over the next several years, a massive wave of business owners will retire and hand off companies with no succession plan in place, and most of those doors are about to open to buyers who look nothing like the founders who built them. This panel digs into entrepreneurship through acquisition as a real, underused path to ownership for the entrepreneurs and investors in this room.
Over the next several years, a massive wave of business owners will retire and hand off companies with no succession plan in place, and most of those doors are about to open to buyers who look nothing like the founders who built them. This panel digs into entrepreneurship through acquisition as a real, underused path to ownership for the entrepreneurs and investors in this room.
Over the next several years, a massive wave of business owners will retire and hand off companies with no succession plan in place, and most of those doors are about to open to buyers who look nothing like the founders who built them. This panel digs into entrepreneurship through acquisition as a real, underused path to ownership for the entrepreneurs and investors in this room.
Over the next several years, a massive wave of business owners will retire and hand off companies with no succession plan in place, and most of those doors are about to open to buyers who look nothing like the founders who built them. This panel digs into entrepreneurship through acquisition as a real, underused path to ownership for the entrepreneurs and investors in this room.
Explore how AI can give founders, small businesses, and historically underserved communities access to capabilities once reserved for large institutions, while addressing the policy and accountability required to ensure that opportunity is distributed responsibly.
Celebrate our Capital Readiness Cohort Graduates! Access becomes action here. Our fall cohort graduates cap off six- weeks of preparing for capital and step forward to share what they've built and where they're headed.
Buffet style lunch, open seats, and intentional connection. Grab some food, find a table, introduce yourself, and see who you end up building with.
Every system was built by people, which means people can rebuild it. That belief sits behind everything we do at Impact Ventures, and it's why this Summit looks different from the usual conference. Our CEO takes the main stage to share what happens when lenders, founders, and community leaders stop waiting for someone else to fix the problem and start working on it together, in the open, with the evidence to show for it. Expect candor about what has worked, what hasn't, and why the next chapter needs you in it.
No amount of polish or persuasion can win support for a decision that isn't grounded in what is true. In this table talk, a facilitator guides your group through a series of prompts built to surface the questions your team, partners, and investors are already asking themselves. You'll hear how others at the table would respond to your thinking, see where the gaps are, and leave knowing what it takes to build a case people can stand behind.
Most rooms are good at agreeing that something needs to change. Fewer are good at deciding who does what by Monday. This facilitated table talk puts you in a small group with founders, funders, and ecosystem builders to name one problem you're each close to, trace who holds the power to fix it, and leave with a specific commitment you can act on and be held to. Bring a challenge from your own work and come ready to talk, because every seat at the table has something to contribute.
This session pulls back the curtain on a cohort that spent months rethinking how underwriting decisions get made and who they leave out. Attendees get a direct look at the findings, what changed for the institutions involved, and what other lenders and CDFIs can put into practice starting the next day.
With the purchase a of a VIP ticket, gain access to a special invitation-only networking reception for the official kick-off the 3rd Annual Inclusive Capital Summit. Enjoy an open bar and lite bites with event speakers, sponsors, and attendees. Please note, address will be emailed to all VIP Ticket holders.