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Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons
Climate change, conflict, and violence displace millions of people, not just from their homes but from access to opportunity. Forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) often cannot open bank accounts, access credit, or rebuild their livelihoods.
How can digital finance bridge this gap?
Join our webinar on “Building inclusive digital financial solutions for climate-displaced persons” to explore how innovation and inclusion can go hand in hand to advance financial inclusion and resilience for forcibly displaced communities.
Time: 2:00 PM EAT
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Building Trust in the Age of AI: Safeguarding the Impact Economy
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Building Trust in the Age of AI: Safeguarding the Impact Economy with B Cavello
The Impact Economy depends on transparency, accountability, and stakeholder trust — values increasingly tested by the rise of opaque AI systems. As algorithms shape decisions in finance, healthcare, hiring, and development, biases and unintended harms threaten to undermine social progress. This session will explore cutting-edge approaches to ethical AI and impact measurement: embedding fairness in design, aligning AI with SDGs, and ensuring human oversight in high-stakes contexts. Together, we will ask: How do we govern AI at scale so that it advances equity, justice, and systemic well-being rather than eroding them?
At a moment when AI adoption is accelerating faster than regulation, the stakes could not be higher. Governments are scrambling to write rules, companies are racing to integrate AI into core operations, and civil society is calling for safeguards before trust is irreparably broken. For impact investors, entrepreneurs, and changemakers, the question is not whether AI will transform markets and societies — but whether it will do so in ways consistent with human dignity and planetary sustainability. This conversation will surface the tensions, opportunities, and bold ideas needed to ensure that AI becomes a tool for systemic good rather than systemic harm.
About the Featured Guest
B Cavello is a technology and facilitation expert who is passionate about creating social change by empowering everyone to participate in technological and social governance. They serve as director of emerging technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. B also serves as assistant program chair for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference and as a board member to Metagov, an interdisciplinary research nonprofit promoting digital self-governance. Previously, they worked as a tech policy advisor in the US Congress, program lead at Partnership on AI, senior engagement lead at IBM, and director of product and community Exploding Kittens.
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Antidotes to Fascism with Jed Emerson I
Antidotes to Fascism — Conversations with Jed Emerson (Program 1 of 2)
Context, History, and the Stakes for the Impact Economy
How democratic backsliding, media realignment, and policy “deconstruction” are reshaping the playing field for impact investors and entrepreneurs.
Program overview
The impact community doesn’t operate in a vacuum — it sits inside a rapidly shifting political economy where norms, institutions, and information channels are being rewritten in real time. In this opening Deep Dive of a two-program exploration, inspired by a new series of Substack posts, Jed Emerson traces the road to the present moment and makes a clear case for why “business as usual” in impact finance is no longer sufficient. We’ll examine how governance erosion, ESG/DEI backlash, and the migration of public attention away from legacy media alter risk, narrative, and execution for impact practitioners — and why recognizing an “anti-impact context” is a prerequisite to effective action.Topics covered
- What changed: from institutional guardrails to politicized markets — a brief historical arc
- Narrative power: the shift from legacy media to newsletters, podcasts, and short-form video
- ESG/DEI backlash and regulatory chill: practical implications for capital formation and deployment
- Why impact’s inside-baseball debates miss the moment — and how to reframe
- Reading the landscape: sources and signals every impact leader should track
About Our Deep Dives
Deep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of related articles and our members. Be sure to read the articles in question and come bearing questions!
Jed Emerson
Jed Emerson is a pioneer of purpose-driven capital with 30+ years in the field. Co-author of the first book on impact investing — and seven others on impact and social entrepreneurship — he founded Blended Value Group, advising investment firms, funds, family offices, and foundations on strategy and execution. In the late 1990s he coined “blended value,” the now-influential idea that social, environmental, and economic value are inseparable; his book The Purpose of Capital explores aligning wealth and purpose across generations. Emerson serves as Senior Strategic Advisor at AlTi Tiedemann Global and Senior Fellow at ImpactAssets; he advises Happiness Capital and sits on the board of the Katapult Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow with the University of Zurich’s Blended Finance Initiative and a Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University’s Center on Social Investing, and has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, with teaching roles at Kellogg and NYU–Abu Dhabi. Earlier, he helped found REDF and Larkin Street Youth Services.
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
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South Asia Convening 2025: Building Tomorrow’s Ecosystems
ANDE South Asia Convening is an initiative to bring this ecosystem of entrepreneur support organizations, in South Asia, together to initiate discussion and catalyze cross-border collaboration to further economic growth through entrepreneurship and strengthen the SGB ecosystem.
South Asia Convening 2025 is taking place, on December 2-4, 2025, in the context of unprecedented global upheavals, the impacts of which are reverberating across the South Asia region as well. In this context, the main theme of the South Asia convening is: Building Tomorrow’s Ecosystems: Connect, Innovate, Transform.
ANDE would like to invite its partners to nominate themselves for designing, facilitating, or participating in sessions falling under these sub-tracks.
Track One: Nascent & Developed Ecosystems in South Asia
Track Two: Corporate Engagement
Track Three: Diversifying Funding ModelsThere has been a steady increase in entrepreneurial activity and the Small and Growing Business (SGB) support ecosystem over the past few years across the South Asian region. Though the countries in this region have different nuances, there has always been an underlying current of similarities in the challenges and opportunities the SGB ecosystem across them presents. This regional convening will follow up on the momentum built in the previous three editions around bringing the ecosystem of entrepreneur support organisations together to catalyse cross-border collaboration to accelerate on-ground action towards achieving the SDGs, especially in the changed political scenario globally.
South Asia Convening 2025 is taking place in the context of unprecedented global upheavals, the impacts of which are reverberating across the South Asia region as well. In this context, the main theme of the South Asia convening is: Building Tomorrow’s Ecosystems: Connect, Innovate, Transform.
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