This event is hosted by ImpactPHL and Impact for Breakfast
Last autumn, ImpactPHL and Impact for Breakfast hosted a webinar, Answering the Call: Putting Faith into Action Through Impact Investing. The webinar explored how faith values and impact investing intersect and attendees learned how local faith-inspired investors were activating their assets for impact.
As a next step, we are hosting an informal (virtual) conversation focused on faith institutions interested in exploring how to engage in impact investing strategies here in the Philadelphia region, and how to put their capital to work for positive outcomes in the communities they serve and care about. If you are involved with a faith-based institution (for example, a church, congregation, synagogue, mosque, nonprofit organization, foundation) and are interested in meeting peers to explore the topic, please join us.
All are welcome, whether you are new to impact investing, beginning to explore opportunities, already have a program underway, or are just interested in learning more about the topic.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Amanda Joseph at ajoseph@calvertimpactcapital.org.
Amanda Joseph is Director of Faith-Based Initiatives for Calvert Impact Capital, serving as a resource for faith-based investors on their impact investing journeys. Prior to joining Calvert, Amanda worked at Opportunity Finance Network, the nation’s leading association of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) where she worked with CDFI funders, investors, and practitioners as Senior Vice President, Development, and previously as Vice President, Strategic Consulting. She has held had senior management roles at a technology company assisting Americans to sustainably move out of poverty and for a decade-plus at Jewish Funds for Justice/The Shefa Fund where she managed the first and only national initiative to organize the American Jewish community to invest in low-wealth communities across the county. Amanda has prior experience as a commercial loan officer for the Self-Help Credit Union and has worked with a range of mission-driven organizations.
Margaret Berger Bradley is an ImpactPHL Board Member and the VP of Strategic Initiatives at Ben Franklin Technology Partners. She joined Ben Franklin to lead the development and implementation of strategies and projects focused on creating partnerships that expand Ben Franklin’s access to capital and further the overall mission, with a particular focus on emerging impact investment strategies. She has spent more than 25 years focusing on community and economic development, building organizational capacity and managing philanthropic investments, and has had a particular focus on communications, strategic planning and implementation and organizational systems and growth. As Executive Director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative – Greater Philadelphia, she worked with partners across the region and a top-notch team at the Community College of Philadelphia to provide small business owners poised for growth with an experience many have called ‘transformational.’
Vanessa Lowe spent more than 20 years in federal service supporting access to capital for underserved communities. She underwrote investments at the U.S. Treasury Department’s CDFI Fund and distributed disaster recovery funds at the Economic Development Administration. As a Unitarian Universalist, she’s served on the denomination’s Committee on Socially Responsible Investing leading the community investing portfolio. Ms. Lowe has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Unitarian Society of Germantown in Philadelphia.
Eliot Ingram is a member of Arch Street Meeting, a Quaker Meeting located in Philadelphia. Since 2006, he has served on the Meeting's finance committee which oversees the management of the Meeting's endowment. In addition, Eliot co-authored the Arch Street Meeting investment policy which guides the Meeting’s socially responsible investment strategy. He is a Wharton MBA and is CEO of a digital media firm based in Philadelphia.
Stella Tai is Manager of Stewardship Investing Impact and Analysis for Praxis Mutual Funds® and Everence® Financial, a leading provider of faith-based financial products in the United States. With more than 15 years of experience in small business lending and non-profit development, Stella provides primary leadership and support for the promotion, integration and development of impact investing and community development finance solutions).
Who should attend this webinar?
High net worth individuals, family offices, endowment/foundation leadership, investment professionals, pension fund trustees, nonprofit leaders, and anyone interested in broadening their investment horizons.