Money + Meaning

By SOCAP (Social Capital Markets)

What's Money + Meaning about?

Money + Meaning highlights the stories of innovators in our community who are leveraging the power of capital markets to create a more just and sustainable economy. We expand the conversation around impact investing and explore strategies to finance and support social change.

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Money + Meaning episodes:

04.12.2024
Supporting the Frontlines of Climate Justice: Funding Early and Funding Big
By re-examining traditional methods of investing and funding, foundations and endowments are working with partners to connect capital with communities most affected by the climate crisis. This path helps center the voices of people in frontline communities who are most...
03.14.2024
Driving Impact with Meaningful Measurement
In this episode of Money + Meaning, Advantage Capital Managing Director Ryan Brennan discusses how the firm continues to evolve its practices and expand its reach. His conversation with Nzinga Broussard of Sorenson Impact Institute was recorded live at SOCAP23. With...
02.19.2024
All About SOCAP Open
As the global impact community evolves and expands, so does SOCAP Global’s annual flagship conference. One key element is SOCAP Open, which invites the impact community to submit session proposals and brings new voices and differing perspectives to SOCAP. SOCAP Open...
01.15.2024
Innovative Funding Models for Entrepreneurs
A new Money + Meaning podcast episode features a SOCAP23 session exploring innovative funding models that go beyond equity and debt. Three fund managers share their capital solutions designed to better meet the financial needs of many entrepreneurs, especially founders,...
12.11.2023
Connecting Indigenous Communities with Capital for Impact
A Canadian social finance firm is demonstrating the value of a community-driven outcomes tool for positive impact. With a focus on revitalizing Indigenous economies, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners is partnering with communities to address social and environmental challenges and expand...
11.28.2023
Closing the Disability Wealth Gap
This Money + Meaning podcast features a SOCAP23 panel moderated by Enable Ventures Founder Regina Kline. During the “Closing the Disability Wealth Gap” dialogue, Kline spoke with entrepreneurs from four catalytic, impactful, high-growth startups who are leading the charge in...
11.13.2023
SOCAP23 Takeaways and Highlights: Innovations and Collaborations Shaping the Future of Impact
On the final day of SOCAP23, three Content Curation Council members gathered to discuss highlights and insights from the event and take a look at what’s ahead. Matthew Bishop, Senior Fellow at Sorenson Impact Institute, moderated the discussion with social...
10.17.2023
Driving Collaborative Impact Through Investing and Cross-Sector Partnerships
With a record of strong growth over the last decade, the impact investing field has the opportunity to lead in new ways and build on that promise by attracting new investors, organizations, and partnerships for action to drive and amplify...
09.19.2023
Leading SOCAP Through the Years: Connecting Changemakers to Accelerate Impact
By embracing a broader view of impact and community from the start, the people who helped found and nurture SOCAP built a strong foundation for an event that continues to grow and connect global changemakers. From the first SOCAP conference...
08.22.2023
Arts, Culture, Impact! The Value of Creativity in Systemic Change
In a time of growing global challenges and social divisions, the arts and culture sector presents new opportunities for connection and transformation to drive systemic change.
07.24.2023
How Food Tech Is Tackling Climate Change
Technology-driven startups and entrepreneurs are crafting products and methods to reduce the food industry’s greenhouse gas footprint. As they create foods with alternative materials and innovations, they also are shaping a more resilient future for people and the planet. This episode...
07.24.2023
Innovative Impact Investing in Canada
As impact investing makes a difference in communities around the world, practitioners are addressing regional challenges with innovative approaches that can inspire others. Made-in-Canada impact investing approaches to social and environmental issues get the spotlight in this Money and Meaning...
05.26.2023
Investing in Indigenous Women
This Money and Meaning episode features a powerful SOCAP22 session with Trisha Etringer, Shelley Buffalo, and Sikowis Nobiss of the Great Plains Action Society, who call for action and support to end the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis. Pulling...
04.25.2023
Improving the Textile Industry’s Social & Climate Impact
Entrepreneurs and investors are partnering to help improve the textile industry's social and climate impact. With innovative materials and operational changes for efficiency and transparency, they are taking aim at the 1.2 billion tons of CO2 produced annually during textile...
04.10.2023
The Evolving Role of the Chief Sustainability Officer
As companies face growing demands from customers, investors, employees, and regulators to improve their environmental and social impact, some are creating or adding to the job of chief sustainability officer. Through a broader scope and emphasis, this sustainability-focused role can...
03.28.2023
The Value of a Transparent and Holistic Approach to Sustainable Supply Chains and DEI
Organizations are expanding their impact mindset to create transparent, holistic approaches that can help shape sustainable supply chains and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. In this Money + Meaning conversation, Amy Brachio, EY Global Deputy Vice Chair for Sustainability,...
03.21.2023
Evidence-Based Approaches to Caring for Society’s Unsheltered, Vulnerable Populations
This episode of Money and Meaning is a recording of a fireside chat at the 2023 Sorenson Impact Summit with Randy Shumway, Founder of Cicero Group, and Geoff Davis, CEO of Sorenson Impact. Randy discusses how his more than 20...
02.13.2023
HBCUs and Equity in Education: A Student-Centric and Data-Driven Approach
This episode of Money and Meaning is a recording of an onstage conversation at SOCAP22 between Dr. Allison Boxer, Managing Director of Sorenson Impact Center, and Dr. Roslyn Artis, President and CEO of Benedict College. The college in Columbia, South...
01.23.2023
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs
Empowering women impact entrepreneurs to reach their fullest potential and drive social and environmental change is the goal of the Cartier Women’s Initiative (CWI), which became SOCAP’s newest Entrepreneur Program partner in 2022. Through the SOCAP Entrepreneur Program, CWI fellows...
01.09.2023
Finding and Funding Innovative Entrepreneurs Who Otherwise Get Missed
For 30 years, Advantage Capital has imagined new possibilities for impact by investing private institutional capital in businesses from traditionally underserved communities. Ryan Brennan, Managing Director at Advantage Capital, says the firm’s goal is to get funding to innovative entrepreneurs...
10.16.2022
What Is Systems Data? And Why Investors Need It in Emerging Markets
Biases that limit investors and support organizations are often reinforced by a lack of market visibility. One unexploited solution involves using systems data to boost the visibility of the relationships that small and growing businesses have in the entrepreneurial ecosystem...
10.10.2022
State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing
For the third year, SOCAP Global is pleased to present the State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing. Join Fran Seegull, President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance; Monique Aiken, Managing Director or TIIP & Co-founder of Make...
10.19.2021
Accelerating Capital to Save Children's Lives with Cristina Shapiro of UNICEF USA’s Impact Fund for Children
For 75 years UNICEF has been supporting the well-being of children around the globe, helping to save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization. In 2011, UNICEF USA launched an impact investment fund, the Impact Fund for Children (IF4C)....
09.22.2021
Bridging the Gap Between Investor and Borrower with Jasper van Brakel of RSF Social Finance
On this episode, host Alex Kravitz is joined by Jasper van Brakel, the President and CEO of RSF Social Finance. Since the 1980s, RSF has been driving capital to social enterprises supporting a more just and regenerative world. As an...
06.16.2021
The Participatory Funding Movement with Meg Massey and Ben Wrobel
“It’s not just about what you invest in, it’s about how you invest.” In their new book ‘Letting Go’, Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey make the case that in order to effectively tackle social challenges, philanthropists and impact investors need...
05.04.2021
Creating an Investment Roadmap with Shalini Rao of Generation Investment Management
On this episode of Money and Meaning, host Alex Kravitz is joined by Shalini Rao, Director of Growth Equity at Generation Investment Management. Originally founded in 2004 by Al Gore and David Blood, Generation currently manages over $30B in assets...
04.21.2021
The Need for Concessionary, Impact-First Capital with Greg Neichin of Ceniarth
“You’ll get no argument from me that there are sectors where moving institutional scale, finance-first money is what’s needed. Our argument is that in places where the market is not functioning, in places where markets have left people behind, that...
04.07.2021
Scaling Responsible Innovation in Lending with Jacob Haar of Community Investment Management
“Lending has the capacity to transform what people can do based on their capabilities and not necessarily based just on the opportunities that they’ve been dealt. If you believe, like I do, that capabilities are equally distributed but opportunities certainly...
03.23.2021
Launching a Corporate Impact Fund with Blair Miller of TELUS
In late 2020, TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunication companies, launched a $100mm corporate impact fund. Named the Pollinator Fund for Good, the fund invests seed and Series A capital in social entrepreneurs working across four impact areas: environment, agriculture,...
03.02.2021
The Economic Imperative to Support Marginalized Entrepreneurs with Melissa Bradley of 1863 Ventures
Ever since being denied a Small Business Association loan for being a Black woman, Melissa Bradley has dedicated her career to building support ecosystems for historically marginalized entrepreneurs. From her time working in the Treasury Department of the Clinton White...
02.17.2021
Designing a Fund to Work for Both Investor and Entrepreneur with Jewel Burks Solomon of Collab Capital
Jewel Burks Solomon is the Managing Partner of Collab Capital and the Head of Google for Startups in the US. Having founded and sold her first company, Partpic, to Amazon in her mid-20s, Jewel has made a career out of...
02.02.2021
Building an Equitable Future of Work with Dr. Angela Jackson of New Profit
On this week’s episode, Alex is joined by Dr. Angela Jackson, the Managing Partner of New Profit’s Future of Work initiatives. New Profit is a venture philanthropy that has provided over $325mm in support to social entrepreneurs since its founding...
10.27.2020
Independent Impact Verification with Christina Leijonhufvud of BlueMark
As demand for impact investments grow, more and more organizations are creating investment products labeled as ‘impact’. However, without any regulatory body or industry-wide standards, there are significant concerns about impact washing, the practice of branding products as ‘impact’ more...
10.06.2020
Unlocking Corporate Treasuries for Racial Equity with George Ashton of LISC
On this week’s episode, Alex is joined by George Ashton III, Managing Director of Strategic Investments at Local Initiatives Support Corporation or LISC. George recently helped launch LISC's Black Economic Development Fund. Targeting up to $250mm and initially seeded by...
09.22.2020
Catalyzing Impact Investing with Margret Trilli of ImpactAssets
On this episode, host Alex Kravitz is joined by Margret Trilli, the CEO & Chief Investment Officer of ImpactAssets, a nonprofit impact investing firm with over $1.2B in assets under management. They discuss ImpactAssets’ flagship donor-advised fund and the surge...
08.25.2020
MIT Solve’s Innovative Donor-Advised Venture Fund with Casey van der Stricht
Last year, MIT Solve launched Solve Innovation Future, a first-of-its-kind donor-advised venture fund. The philanthropic venture fund is structured as an evergreen vehicle where proceeds are paid forward into future social entrepreneurs. The evergreen nature allows the fund to provide...
08.11.2020
Driving Impact by Listening to Customers with Sasha Dichter
“It needed to be easier, faster, more dynamic, and more value-add to everybody involved to understand impact. It just doesn't make any sense; people are committing decades of their lives to trying to make a change in the world and...
07.28.2020
Gender Lens Investing with Joy Anderson
“Finance at some fundamental level is about making bets on the future. Nobody makes money in the present - we only make money because we were right about the future that we bet on. So one really important way to...
07.14.2020
How to Start Impact Investing with Beth Bafford
“It is a privilege to have any investable assets for savings or retirement but if you do, in any amount, you have power. You have the power to invest in companies, in funds, in a financial system and an economy...
06.30.2020
Impact Investing 101 with Rehana Nathoo
For our 50th episode, we take it back to the basics. What is impact investing? What does it look like across asset classes and impact areas? Is impact investing inherently concessionary? And, mostly importantly, is it working? Joining us for this...
06.16.2020
The History of Impact Investing with Antony Bugg-Levine
This week’s guest is Antony Bugg-Levine, impact investing pioneer and CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). Founded in 1980, NFF is a community development finance institution that provides financing and consulting to nonprofits across the country. In his role...
06.02.2020
Design, Engineering, and Impact at the Autodesk Foundation
“Our board and our team believe that you can define any societal problem as either a climate change problem or an inequality problem…so our thesis has evolved over the years to bring our resources to bear against those two large...
05.19.2020
Creating Diverse Communities with Entrepreneurship
MORTAR is a Cincinnati-based accelerator working to help historically marginalized entrepreneurs get the resources they need to start and run successful businesses. Whereas most accelerators pull from as large a pool of entrepreneurs as possible, MORTAR has taken the opposite...
05.06.2020
Removing Barriers to Capital for Entrepreneurs at the Kauffman Foundation
Entrepreneurship is a leading driver of economic growth, job creation, and wealth building yet 83% of entrepreneurs do not have access to either bank lending or venture capital. To reduce this barrier to starting or growing a business, the Kauffman...
04.14.2020
Cathy Clark on Emergency Funding Sources for Entrepreneurs
“About a month ago, we asked ourselves at CASE, ‘what can we do really quickly to help entrepreneurs through this crisis?’ We had already seen some very significant businesses in our local area shut down in the first week and...
04.07.2020
Building Equitable Economies with Rodney Foxworth from Common Future
“I encourage all of us who are the dreamers to continuously put forth new visions for what is possible - particularly in this moment - because, if we can’t do it right now, when can we do it?” - Rodney...
03.24.2020
Jed Emerson Talks About Anger, Purpose, Impact, and Capital
In his plenary address at SOCAP17 Jed Emerson said, “We need to understand the purpose of capital is not simply the absence of evil from our pursuit of wealth, something hard enough and potentially impossible for us to achieve, but...
03.10.2020
Scaling Solutions to Global Water Challenges
"The global water challenge is really about balancing the micro and the macro. People, industry, agriculture–everybody needs water in the right place, in the right quantity, at the right quality, and at the right time. Doing that is unbelievably hard.”...
02.25.2020
Kiva on the Need for Systems Change for Financial Inclusion
How can technology help extend access to financial services to the 1.7 billion unbanked people in the world? In the latest episode of Money and Meaning, Lindsay Smalling interviews Kiva’s Chief Strategy Officer, Matthew Davie, about some of their new...
02.11.2020
Blended Finance and International Development
Blended finance deals have the potential to drive trillions of dollars of institutional capital into high impact projects in emerging markets and could lead to massive progress towards achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In this episode, Joan Larrea, CEO...

What's Money + Meaning about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Money + Meaning episodes:

Supporting the Frontlines of Climate Justice: Funding Early and Funding Big

Driving Impact with Meaningful Measurement

All About SOCAP Open

Innovative Funding Models for Entrepreneurs

Connecting Indigenous Communities with Capital for Impact

Closing the Disability Wealth Gap

SOCAP23 Takeaways and Highlights: Innovations and Collaborations Shaping the Future of Impact

Driving Collaborative Impact Through Investing and Cross-Sector Partnerships

Leading SOCAP Through the Years: Connecting Changemakers to Accelerate Impact

Arts, Culture, Impact! The Value of Creativity in Systemic Change

How Food Tech Is Tackling Climate Change

Innovative Impact Investing in Canada

Investing in Indigenous Women

Improving the Textile Industry’s Social & Climate Impact

The Evolving Role of the Chief Sustainability Officer

The Value of a Transparent and Holistic Approach to Sustainable Supply Chains and DEI

Evidence-Based Approaches to Caring for Society’s Unsheltered, Vulnerable Populations

HBCUs and Equity in Education: A Student-Centric and Data-Driven Approach

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

Finding and Funding Innovative Entrepreneurs Who Otherwise Get Missed

What Is Systems Data? And Why Investors Need It in Emerging Markets

State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing

Accelerating Capital to Save Children's Lives with Cristina Shapiro of UNICEF USA’s Impact Fund for Children

Bridging the Gap Between Investor and Borrower with Jasper van Brakel of RSF Social Finance

The Participatory Funding Movement with Meg Massey and Ben Wrobel

Creating an Investment Roadmap with Shalini Rao of Generation Investment Management

The Need for Concessionary, Impact-First Capital with Greg Neichin of Ceniarth

Scaling Responsible Innovation in Lending with Jacob Haar of Community Investment Management

Launching a Corporate Impact Fund with Blair Miller of TELUS

The Economic Imperative to Support Marginalized Entrepreneurs with Melissa Bradley of 1863 Ventures

Designing a Fund to Work for Both Investor and Entrepreneur with Jewel Burks Solomon of Collab Capital

Building an Equitable Future of Work with Dr. Angela Jackson of New Profit

Independent Impact Verification with Christina Leijonhufvud of BlueMark

Unlocking Corporate Treasuries for Racial Equity with George Ashton of LISC

Catalyzing Impact Investing with Margret Trilli of ImpactAssets

MIT Solve’s Innovative Donor-Advised Venture Fund with Casey van der Stricht

Driving Impact by Listening to Customers with Sasha Dichter

Gender Lens Investing with Joy Anderson

How to Start Impact Investing with Beth Bafford

Impact Investing 101 with Rehana Nathoo

The History of Impact Investing with Antony Bugg-Levine

Design, Engineering, and Impact at the Autodesk Foundation

Creating Diverse Communities with Entrepreneurship

Removing Barriers to Capital for Entrepreneurs at the Kauffman Foundation

Cathy Clark on Emergency Funding Sources for Entrepreneurs

Building Equitable Economies with Rodney Foxworth from Common Future

Jed Emerson Talks About Anger, Purpose, Impact, and Capital

Scaling Solutions to Global Water Challenges

Kiva on the Need for Systems Change for Financial Inclusion

Blended Finance and International Development