Last updated: September 20, 2023
Many of our team will be on the fall conference circuit again. If you see us, be sure to say hi!
2023 Gratitude Investor Gathering
Sunday–Wednesday, September 10–13, 2023
Scotts Valley, CA
Co-founder & CEO David Lynn is attending.
Regenerative Food Systems Investment Forum
September 26–27, 2023
Denver, CO
Structured Finance Lead David Cooper is attending.
Native Women Lead Growth Capital Summit
Monday–Wednesday, October 2–4, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is attending.
ESG for Impact!
Sunday–Wednesday, October 8–11, 2023
Broomfield, CO
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is attending.
The Ownership Economy Summit
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
New York City, NY
Chief Legal Officer Joe Pileri is attending.
Funders of Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) All Member Retreat & Learning Journey
Tuesday–Thursday, October 10–12, 2023
Kutztown, PA
Structured Finance Lead David Cooper is speaking on a panel.
California Forward (CA FWD) California Economic Summit
Wednesday–Friday, October 11–13, 2023
Indian Wells, CA
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is attending.
OFN Conference—Capital Meets Purpose
Sunday–Wednesday, October 15–18, 2023
Washington, DC
VP of Capital Initiatives Stephen Nunes is attending.
Social Purpose Real Estate Summit
Tuesday–Thursday, October 24–26, 2023
Detroit, MI
VP of Care & Education Laura Kohn is speaking on the panel “Child Care Real Estate for Social Good” on October 26, 2023.
The panelists represent four interlinked strategies for supporting child care real estate for social benefit.
Mission Driven Finance is launching a novel social impact REIT for child care, Care Access Real Estate (CARE). CARE is purchasing, renovating, and leasing residential and commercial properties to providers as a child care friendly landlord in order to grow the availability of quality child care and to stabilize child care businesses. Further, CARE tenants will have an opportunity to purchase their leased property after at least 2 years of successful tenancy, and CARE will share 50% of appreciation profits with the tenant to help them execute the purchase. CARE’s launch locations are San Diego County, Clark County (NV), Detroit/Michigan and nationally alongside micro-Montessori child care provider Wildflower Schools. The REITs investors are accredited investors including foundation PRIs.
IFF is a national leader in child care facilities development by CDFIs. By utilizing a real estate holding subsidiary as property owner and by integrating public and philanthropic capital, IFF is able to access long-term financing with favorable terms, provide affordable rent to child care tenants, and create a pathway to ownership for its child care tenants. IFF and CARE plan to partner for buyouts by the REIT to recycle capital and speed up the development cycle for child care in Michigan.
Hope Starts Here is a community leader of child care advocacy and planning in Detroit. One of its focuses is child care facilities and real estate, and the organization leads the regional conversation around child care as a powerful community development and equity strategy.
The WK Kellogg Foundation is a champion for each of these strategies and many more that elevate the power of child care real estate to drive equity and opportunity in communities around Michigan and the nation. Their role on the panel is expertise and investor voice.
SOCAP23
Monday–Wednesday, October 23–25, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is attending.
Freedman’s Bank Forum
Friday, October 25, 2023
Washington, DC
VP of Capital Initiatives Stephen Nunes is attending.
Impact Capital Managers Fall Convening 2023
Saturday, October 26, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is attending.
National Business Leaders in Action Summit
Wednesday–Friday, November 8–10, 2023
Denver, Colorado
VP of Care & Education Laura Kohn is speaking in the breakout session “Community as a Catalyst: Activating Public-Private Partnerships and Community Investment.”
SoCal Grantmakers 2023 Annual Conference—REIMAGINE Our Economy
Los Angeles, CA
Co-founder & Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan is speaking on the panel “Liberatory Philanthropy & Restorative Investing for a Reparative Economy.”
Not only is philanthropy a direct product of wealth inequality, but—indirectly or not—it is also a beneficiary of an environment that perpetuates privilege, white supremacy, and entrenched power. Join this provocative conversation to grapple with the inherent tensions of leveraging impact investing to pursue racial equity and explore actionable ways to repair the harms of racial capitalism. With a myriad of lessons learned from movements and communities, our sector has the opportunity to center racial equity and employ creative investing strategies to create pathways towards a reparative economy.
