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6th Annual Impact Investing Symposium Series

What is Impact Investing? According to Michael Drexler and Abigail Noble from the World Economic Forum it’s “an investment approach intentionally seeking to create both financial return and positive social impact that is actively measured.” Yet there is dissonance. What takes priority the financial return or the impact? Which stakeholder is most important? Is impact investing for the short-term or the long-term? Should change be incremental or revolutionary?

 

The 6th annual Impact Investing Symposium (IIS) took place in 2021 and featured the following sessions:

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  • Impact Investing 101
    1 PM - 1:30 PM CST: Impact Investing 101 Louie Nguyen, CFA - Mission Driven Finance
  • Pathways for Individual Impact
    1:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST: Pathways for Individual Impact: How Can I Make an Impact through Investing? Yoni Blumberg - WEPOWER Julia Ho - Solidarity Economy and STL Mutual Aid Fund Zach Gildehaus, CFA, CFP, CEPA - Edward Jones Anna Sears, CFA - St. Louis Trust & Family Office
  • Tools for Community Empowerment
    3 PM - 4 PM CST: Tools for Community Empowerment: How Can Local Organizations Make an Impact through Investing? Jill Nowak - MO Foundation for Health Stephen Westbrooks - IFF Neelu Panth - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis CDFF Amina Abdul-Malik - WEPOWER
  • Connecting Institutional Capital to Community Needs
    4 PM - 4:50 PM CST: Connecting Institutional Capital to Community Needs at Scale: How can Corporations and Larger Institutions Make an Impact Through Investing? Louie Nguyen, CFA - Mission Driven Finance Caleb A. Bobo - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Heather Navarro - Midwest Climate Collaborative Charli Cooksey - WEPOWER
  • Impact Investing in Action
    5 PM - 5:30 PM CST: Closing Stanley Toussaint - MoCaFi
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