Hosted by SOCAP Global, supported by Halloran Philanthropies, facilitated by ImpactPHL
In 2025, ImpactPHL will return to SOCAP for its fourth year of sponsored engagement with support from Halloran Philanthropies. This year’s theme, Seeding Systems Investment in Place, reflects both Greater Philadelphia’s growing leadership in place-based investing and a national movement toward regenerative, locally-driven investment strategies that create systems change.
Neighborhoods to regions across the U.S. are demonstrating that rooted, local communities need and can leverage a spectrum of aligned capital to seed the new systems that our local futures want and need. ImpactPHL’s SOCAP2025 presence will uplift this work—showcasing actionable models, tools, and relationships helping to seed new futures in place.
Activations
Place-Based & Community Impact
Opening Panel on SOCAP Tracks
— Monday, October 27th, at 9:00 am, on the Main Stage
Join us for the kick-off session of the Place-Based & Community Impact track, featuring an opening panel curated by the track’s Content Curation Council. This session will provide a high-level view of the current landscape and introduce the topics that shape this track's sessions. As efforts grow to move place-based strategies from niche to mainstream, our Content Curation Council members will examine what’s needed to empower communities and create lasting change.
Seeding New Systems: Investing in Cultural & Creative Economies
Capital Connections
— Monday, October 27th, at 4:00 pm, in Yud Galley, located at The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Systems change starts from the roots. Culture is the foundation of every community, shaping how we connect, heal, and imagine the future. This facilitated networking session brings together investors, fund managers, CDFIs, artists, culture bearers, healers, and community leaders who are transforming their local systems through investment in cultural and creative economies. Rooted in place, these investments shift conditions for everything else - from health to housing, from belonging to economic mobility. Participants will engage through guided prompts: What future are you seeding in your place? What resources are you seeking or offering? Leave with new allies, fresh tools, and momentum to grow regenerative, culturally-rooted systems.
Local Futures: Investing in Artists & Culture for Community Health
Place-Based & Community Impact Panel
— Tuesday, October 28th, at 3:45 pm, in Goldman Hall, located at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
What does the future of community health look like in the United States? Just as science seeks understanding and connection, so too does culture. Imagine if we invested in culture and artists the same way we invest in science and scientists - with patient capital, long-term perspective, and infrastructure to support experimentation. This session explores how communities, artists, and investors can co-design place-based upstream interventions that drive equitable health and wellbeing. Panelists will share models where a spectrum of impact capital invests in community assets such as safety and belonging, reducing downstream costs and building agency, wealth, and health for generations to come.
Seeding Local Systems Booth
Ongoing Conversation Connection Space
— Sponsor space, located between deck doors.
How are you seeding and growing new investment systems in your neighborhood, city, or region? Come to ImpactPHL’s booth to talk about locally-driven growth in place-based investing and a national movement toward regenerative, locally-driven investment strategies that create systems change.