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May 1-2, 2023
A two-day Summit focused on deploying capital, education, networking, and driving positive impact
Convene City View (Center City) 30 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA
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I thought you might find the “xx session” of interest. “Pedro Henriques da Silva” is such a meaningful voice in “our net zero future”.
I hope you are available to join me the first two days, Monday and Tuesday in May 1st & 2nd, it will be a meaningful community to connect with.
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Please do not hesitate to purchase a ticket at $500 off when you enter “FRIEND” on the second registration page.
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Total Impact Summit invites individuals and organizations seeking to align assets and make investments for positive global and local impact.
The 2-day event will feature peer connection opportunities, an Investable Impact showcase, and 20+ sessions featuring 50+ speakers on topics including ESG, impact investing, climate action, racial equity, and more.
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Don’t miss <organization / topic name> at Total Impact Summit, May 1-2, in Center City, Philadelphia, PA.
Total Impact Summit invites individuals and organizations seeking to align their assets and make investments for positive local and global impact. The 2-day event will feature peer connection opportunities, an Investable Impact showcase, and 20+ sessions featuring 50+ speakers covering topics including ESG, impact investing, climate action, racial equity, and more. Learn more and register with the code 'YOUR CODE' for $500 off at impactphl.org/tis23.
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Total Impact Summit 2023 Event FAQs
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A COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATION
AGENDA
3 - 3:15pm // Welcome & IntroductionMeg DeBrito welcomes participants to Imagining the Future of Greater Philadelphia’s Ecosystem for Investment in Arts & Culture, invites brief introductions, and reviews the agenda.
3:15 - 3:25pm // Introduction to Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture InvestmentMegan McFadden & Sammetria Goodson briefly share high-level learnings and suggestions from the primer, Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture Investment, about moving beyond the traditional arts and culture investment paradigm.
3:25 - 3:55pm // Participant Panel Kick-Off ConversationRyan Bowers kicks off our conversation by highlighting the voices of four local interdisciplinary arts and culture leaders and practitioners:
- Erlin Geffrard (PAFA)
- Gabriela Sanchez (The Philadelphia Culture Fund)
- Rebecca Segall (Gross McCleaf Gallery)
- Tayyib Smith (Guild of Future Architects)
3:55 - 4:10pm // Breakout Group Introduction & Bio Break Megan McFadden will introduce our breakout groups, invite a bio break, and ask attendees to find their groups.
4:10 - 4:50pm // Breakout Group Conversations Led by facilitators, small groups will focus 40 minutes of breakout group conversation on big-picture investment in the arts and culture sector, significant barriers and assets, immediate needs, and next steps.
4:50 - 5pm // Group Takeaways & Next StepsWe’ll close out by capturing any inspiring or informative takeaways and our collective hopes to address immediate needs and next steps.
5-7pm // (re)Focus Gallery Tour & Refreshments Stay for an open invitation of ImpactPHL Social’s broad network with a specific focus on local arts and culture organizations. This is a time to meet each other and experience Fortitude at 50 - A Resilient Five Decades at Gross McCleaf Gallery, an exhibition celebrating (re)Focus, the 50th anniversary of “Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts”.
OUR FOCUS TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE
Art and culture generate meaningful positive impact for Greater Philadelphia’s economy, neighborhoods, and communities; yet, arts and culture-driven practitioners face layered barriers to obtaining the capital needed to sustain, deepen, and expand their work and impact.
How can we come together to collectively imagine the future of Greater Philadelphia’s ecosystem for investment in arts and culture? How can we each bring our own capital - cultural, social, intellectual, financial, and more - to bear for the advancement of arts and culture-driven impact?
Meet our Panelists & Hosts
Our Conversation Goals
Convene local investors, arts practitioners, and culture-bearers interested in the future of Greater Philadelphia’s investment in arts and culture
Create new relationships or deepen existing relationships between these individuals
Prompt preliminary conversations about reimagining the future of Greater Philadelphia’s ecosystem for investment in arts and culture
Identify ways that ImpactPHL can support these stakeholders using our programming
GROSS MCCLEAF GALLERY
127 S 16th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Imagining the Future for Arts + Culture Investment
Gabriela Serena Sanchez
Executive Director - The Philadelphia Cultural Fund / Co-Artistic Director / Board Member
Gabriela Serena Sanchez, is a cultural producer and multidisciplinary mother artist- a director, actor, photographer, video editor, teaching artist, poet – who blends creative practice with deeply embedded social justice action. A Philadelphia native, Sanchez graduated from the Creative and Performing Arts highschool and received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Temple University. Sanchez is known for effectively building coalitions in a diverse range of communities throughout the city and furthering a vision of an arts sector deeply rooted in equity and justice.
Gabriela is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Sanchez provides leadership and vision in the fulfillment of PCF’s mission to support and enhance the cultural vitality of Philadelphia and all its residents by promoting arts and culture as engines of social cohesion, economic development, and health and well-being.
Sanchez is also the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Power Street Theatre, a women of color- led multicultural theater collective presenting powerful new plays, theater education and community story circles in the heart of el barrio as well as other Philadelphia neighborhoods. For over a decade, she has worked with multiple influential arts and culture organizations in the city including Conflict Resolution Theatre, Taller Puertorriqueño, Norris Square Neighborhood Project, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and dozens more!
Erlin Geffrard
Artist / Professor at PAFA
Erlin Geffrard is a painter based in Philadelphia, PA. Most of his work is mixed media painting with a variety of styles. Ranging from family portraits to images derived from imagination. Using new and repurposed materials in rhythmic combinations. His current series explores the connections between family memory, ritual, and popular culture.
Erlin Geffrard is originally from Palm Beach, Florida and is of Haitian descent. He studied painting and design at San Francisco Art Institute before earning an M.F.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. Primarily an installation artist and activating his pieces through participation by the visitor and sound, Geffrard originally worked under the alias, Kreyola Kid, as a performance artist. He was influenced by the idea of "refugee" running throughout his work and life; his Haitian origin and family, upbringing in Florida and the underground culture in the Bay Area. His work concerns the overlap of fine arts, commercial hip hop culture, and issues of class, race, place, gender, and religion through subject matter and material.
Tayyib Smith
Founding Partner at The Growth Collective / Principal at Smith & Roller Holdings / Board Member / Investor
Tayyib Smith is serial entrepreneur ; founding partner and chief strategist at The Growth Collective³’ a partnership with the vision is to provide access to resources and capital that will elevate Bipoc communities and generate wealth for neighborhoods stagnated by systemic racism and divestment.
A principal at Smith & Roller Holdings, a real estate company that engages and invites diverse stakeholders of neighborhoods to become part of a growing, multicultural and multi-socioeconomic tapestry. Tayyib has long been a successful conduit of professional and cultural ecosystems. He is a Board member at The Guild of Future Architects , the Kensington Corridor Trust, The Prizm Art Fair in Miami, and Black Star Film Festival.
Tayyib is dedicated to cultural competency and the ability to engage multicultural audiences. He co-founded Pipeline Philly to serve as an inviting and dynamic co-working space filled with professionals from various backgrounds and industries, creating one of the most diverse workspaces in the city. .
Rebecca Segall
Owner & Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery / Board Member / PAFA Advisor
Rebecca Segall is the owner and director of Gross McCleaf Gallery, an institution in Philadelphia’s Fine Arts community for the last half-century. An accomplished artist herself, Rebecca is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has also had a career in consumer products sales as an on-air specialist for the QVC television shopping network, as well as in real estate brokerage representing developers in the sale of residential properties.
Rebecca is a member of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization focused on meeting the therapeutic needs of children who have experienced trauma in the city’s diverse communities. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s South Asian Art Committee and serves as an advisor to the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Ryan Bowers
CEO of Baker Station Advisors / Panel Moderator
Ryan Bowers is a seasoned economic justice advocate focusing on the intersection of capital markets and social change. He currently serves as CEO of Baker Station Advisors, a boutique consultancy advising nonprofits, investors, and local governments.
Most recently, Ryan co-founded Activest, an investment research firm bringing a racial justice lens to municipal finance. Previously, he was Senior Partner and Cofounder at Frontline Solutions, a management consulting firm serving foundations and nonprofits.
Ryan has a BA from Temple University and MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.
Sammetria Goodson
Attorney of Goodson Law PLLC / Host
Sammetria is an Attorney who focuses her practice on Art Law and Intellectual Property. Sammetria works with a wide range of art industry clients including artists, art agencies, collectors, consultants, cultural organizations, dealers, galleries, and independent curators. She also works with creatives, makers, and artisans in a various intellectual property-based enterprises.
Sammetria holds a BBA in Marketing from the McCombs School of Business and a BA in Art History from the College of Fine Arts - both from The University of Texas at Austin. She’s also a proud graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia.
Sammetria loves talking about the intersection of law, art, and design. She’s a frequent lecturer on the topics of Art Law, and best business practices for Creatives, Artists, and Designers. She currently teaches a class called How to (Not) be a Starving Artist at UT Austin, College of Fine Arts. Sammetria was recently awarded an Arts Education Award from the Dallas Business Council for the Arts for her community arts education work. An article co-authored by Sammetria discussing Art and Private Investment was published in 2023. She is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas and serves client at her boutique Art Law firm Goodson Law PLLC.
Megan McFadden
Director of Strategy, ImpactPHL / Host
Megan has dedicated her 18-year career to economic systems change. As a field and ecosystem builder, Megan's worked with pioneering organizations at local, national, and international levels on everything from investment convenings to the R&D of new investment funds, global research projects to capacity-building for entrepreneurs. She's worked with teams including SOCAP, Institute for the Future, ImpactAlpha, The Enterprise Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Impact Hub, and more.
Megan is committed to being in service of a Just Transition and believes that artists and cultural practitioners are essential to this transition and a future regenerative economy. She is the co-author of Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture Investment.
Karyn Polak
Founder & Principal of Shift the Prism / Host
Karyn Polak works passionately on social and economic equity, making progress towards a more regenerative and inclusive global economy.
Karyn founded Shift the Prism Advisory to support changes in mindsets, systems, and approaches to capital and development – sparking creative engagement and collaboration from the hyperlocal to the national and international level within public, private, non-profit, and community spaces. She previously served as a senior counsel, trusted advisor, and C-suite executive at Citigroup, PNC Bank, and Transamerica — from her first senior position as General Counsel for Citi Private Bank to her most recent as Chief Legal Officer for Transamerica -- and before that at three top-100 U.S. law firms.
Karyn serves on the Programming Committee with ImpactPHL to help expand the reach of this meaningful work.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
LOCATION
Where and when will TIS25 take place?
Total Impact Summit 2025 is an in-person event taking place on Wednesday, May 14th and Thursday, May 15th, 2025
The venue is Convene CityView, located at 30 South 17th Street between Ludlow Street and Ranstead Street.
TRAVEL
Where do I park?
Liberty Place Garage is located at 99 South 17th Street.
LAZ Parking is located at 1800 Market Street.
What’s the closest subway/train station?
Septa Transit & Regional Rail - 15th Street Station
Amtrak - 30th Street Station
What are the closest bus routes?
7th Street & Chestnut Street: 2, 9, 21, 42
Chestnut Street & 18th Street: 9, 21, 42
Market Street & 18th Street: 17, 31, 32, 33, 38, 44, 48
REGISTRATION
How do I get an official receipt and confirmation?
Within 5-10 minutes of payment, attendees will receive an official TIS25 confirmation via email. If you do not receive the official TIS25 confirmation within 5-10 minutes after registering please contact info@impactphl.org.
Can I register several people at once?
Yes. The buyer will be asked to complete registration questions for each person.
Can we split a ticket between several attendees?
No. If you want different people to attend on different days, you will need each person to purchase a day pass.
CANCELLATIONS
Can I receive a refund?
Tickets to Total Impact Summit 2025 are non-refundable.
Can I transfer my registration to someone else?
Your registration can be transferred until April May 5th, 2025. If you cannot attend TIS24 and you want to transfer your ticket to someone else, email katy@wittygritty.com.
What’s New at the Zoo?
June 21st at 3:00-5:00pm
This is a Special Invite Only Event Limited to Thirty People
For more than four generations, Philadelphia Zoo has served as one of the region’s most important destinations, welcoming millions of diverse visitors to experience magnificent wildlife and be inspired to action for animals and habitats. More recently, the Zoo has become a leader in addressing some of the key environmental and social issues affecting the Greater Philadelphia region.
Come join us on June 21st and have a conversation with Vikram Dewan, the President and CEO of the Philadelphia Zoo. Vik will share with our group his journey to educate his Board and staff on ESG issues and then translate these ideas into reality with programs like:
Launching the first-ever community access program
Creating an award-winning contest to take action for wildlife
Establishing the West Philly Scholars program
Creating KidZooU
Designing sustainable fund sources for the animals
Implementing alternative energy sources
Addressing the transportation issues
Please let us know as soon as possible your availability to join us at this special event.
No Substitutes for Registrants & No Children
About Our Speaker
Vikram Dewan joined Philadelphia Zoo in July 2006; he is the 14th President to lead the area’s most-visited ticketed cultural attraction. As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Zoo, Vik is responsible for institutional leadership and strategic direction for all programs, services, operations, and fundraising.
During his tenure, the Zoo has opened several one-of-a-kind animal exhibits, launched new groundbreaking initiatives, and instituted a comprehensive 10-year transformative site master plan. Vik holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.