Stephanie Gripne, PhD
Visiting Scholar, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School
CEO, Impact Finance Center
and
Nicole Bagley
Senior Advisor, Impact Finance Center
President, The Sapelo and Brenn Foundations
Description
From Jan. 4-15, Dr. Stephanie Gripne, Visiting Scholar, Tishman Environment and Design Center will be teaching a Winter Webinar Series, Social Impact Investing: Full Spectrum Capital, Community Stewards, and Capital Stewards.
Students will be introduced to impact investing and financial innovation concepts that include Full Spectrum Capital, Catalytic Capital, and Integrated Enterprise Investments. We will focus on overall governance, philanthropy, direct investments, and public investments of individual and organizational investors and explore 10-15 of Impact Finance Center’s 80+ tools. Specifically, students will learn about the importance of governance, including investment beliefs and evidence based attribution evaluation, philanthropic audits, and how to high level structure investments for social ventures (i.e., projects, nonprofits, small businesses, startups, cooperatives, tandem hybrids, and funds). Students will understand why venture capital is currently structured the way it is and how we can reimagine it for a more just and equitable world. Additionally, students will be introduced to key components of community infrastructure such as Investor Accelerators, aka Impact Investing Giving Circles, Investor Clubs, Impact Days, Regional Directories, and Impact Investing Institute. Finally, the students will be introduced to the Main Street 2.0 vision and National Impact Investing Marketplace.
Students will be required to read or watch recorded webinars and come to the live webinar prepared to discuss the pre-assigned readings.
Email gripnes@newschool.edu to register for the webinar series and receive the syllabus.
Instructor (s):
Dr. Stephanie Gripne: Visiting Scholar, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School and CEO, Impact Finance Center. As Founder and Executive Director of Impact Finance Center (IFC), Stephanie is the creative force behind several social enterprises to accelerate the impact investing movement and move $1T in investment capital into social ventures doing well by doing good including the following: CO Impact Days, Impact Investing Institute, and Rocky Mountain Who’s Who & Impact Investing. Lauded by Forbes as “the Steve Jobs of impact investing”, Stephanie is continuously innovating IFC’s model, which serves as an accelerator for asset owners, by identifying, educating, and activating early adopter philanthropists and investors who want to become impact investors.
Nicole Bagley focuses on positive social change and female empowerment in her work as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor. She leads The Brenn Foundation, host to thought-provoking, action-oriented gatherings where visionaries and leaders come together to tackle the world’s most complex issues. In the role of Vice President at Arca, her aim is to advance equity, justice and human rights. Nicole is also President of the Sapelo Foundation, committed to the enhancement and preservation of Georgia’s natural environment through enlightened social change. Active in the Colorado impact community, through her direct investments in early stage companies, she lends mentorship to women and impact. To that end, she’s a member of Social Venture Circle, Gender Lens Investing Committee through Beyond our Borders, and a senior advisor at the Impact Finance Center that hosts CO Impact Days.