Public Events
Together with partners and friends, we host the following events for our community to attend. We encourage you to follow us on LinkedIn to stay current with in-person opportunities and online workshops/webinars. Reach out if you would like to host something with us!
The series highlights recent mission and values-aligned investments by community impact investors. NEIII & Community Investment Project are working together to host these webinars.
It's Happening Here Webinar Series
Invest New England's It's Happening Here Webinar Series highlights recent mission and values-aligned investments by New England's place-focused foundations. The series begins in June of 2025 and runs through the remainder of the year. There will be one webinar almost every month.
Click below to register for the latest event and to watch the recordings.
Some of the webinars in the series include:
Rooted Investment in Local Native Futures
Growing Community Entrepreneurship Using Revenue-based Financing
Financial EDUCATION Workshop Series
Freedmen Heirs Foundation is launching this series, and we're partnering with them to offer financial education sessions tailored to students and early-career professionals. These workshops are designed to promote strong financial habits early in life, equipping participants with the tools they need to navigate their professional and personal financial journeys with confidence.
Please share the online workshop with those in your network. Open for anyone to join.
Workshop One | June 17, 2025 - Budgeting 101: An Introduction to Intentional Budgeting
Workshop Two | July 15, 2025 - Understanding Credit & Debt: A Student's Roadmap to Financial Wellness
Workshop Three | July 29, 2025 - The Early Bird's Advantage: The Student's Guide to Saving & Investing
NEIII & Community Investment Project host a conference for foundations, philanthropists, and mission-driven institutions to mobilize place based investing. The conference will take place on April 10th and 11th, 2025, at the Boston Federal Reserve
Invest in New England Conference
Invest in New England’s Communities Conference was hosted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston across two days (April 10th and 11th) to convene place-based investors across the following three themes:
Explore - understand how philanthropic impact investing is done, and ways in which it is currently happening in New England.
Unlock - look at the steps foundations and intermediaries can take to jump into impact investing when opportunities arise.
Deploy - learn from examples where investments have happened through a collaboration of ecosystem partners, and who should be engaged.
The event was convened by the Community Investment Project, New England Impact Investing Iniatitive, and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Scroll down for a description for each of the sessions and the speakers.
The Role of Philanthropy in Delivering Catalytic Capital
Join an online workshop and skill session with Jeff Rosen. Join at Friday Nov 1 10am Eastern Time if interested!
What is philanthropy's role in impact investing? How can it play a part in catalytic capital? Join us for Jeff Rosen interactive workshop on this topic. He’ll take a deep dive into fund design and give us an overview of what catalytic capital means. Jeff Rosen joins us from his class at Tufts University as part of their Certificate in Impact and Sustainable Investing.