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!
Invest New England April 2026 Project Update
This quarterly check-in provided an update on New England’s impact investment ecosystem map initiated by Questrom students at Boston University and included lessons-learned from similar mapping projects in Georgia and New Mexico. Event participants saw an emerging draft map, provided feedback on further development, and helped strategize how New England's ecosystem might be strengthened in the coming years.
Learn more about the event post here and on our website:
https://www.investnewengland.org/map-
Description text The New England Impact Investing Ecosystem Map is a place-based effort to strengthen the network of New England-focused impact investors and ecosystem partners. An outgrowth of the 2025 Invest for New England Conference and developed in collaboration with a student team at BU Questrom School of Business starting in January 2026, the project aspires to be a dynamic tool designed to clear capital barriers, reveal resource concentrations, and unearth unmet community development opportunities across Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The prototype map categorizes over 200 organizations into three partner types: Impact Investors (such as foundations and banks), Intermediaries & Aggregators (such as CDFIs and community loan funds), and Investment Partners & System Supporters (such as accelerators and other technical assistance providers). The team hopes to make a prototype version of the map available in 2026 or early 2027.goes here
Thank you to the interviews we had with our network. This included (in no specific order) Josie Shagwert, Lubna Maria Elia, Janice St. Onge (she/her), Mark Paley, Karen Kelleher, Thomas Mitchell, Eliza Chory-Noyes, Alexander Sterling, Laurie Lane-Zucker, Lisa Hayles, Jeff Rosen, Faina Rozental-Behrer, Stephen Michon Pierre Joseph, Jonah Zahnd, Michael Swack, John Hamilton, Celina Adams, Rebecca Hession, Kristen Sharpless, Christen Graham and others for their support, connections, and feedback.
And special thanks to Adam Rubel and Sydney England for presenting examples of their map-making work to inspire action in New England. Check the recording to see their contribution.
None of this would have been possible without the help of a very dedicated and hardworking team. A very special thank you to Boston University’s Questrom School of Business students who contributed to the development of our ecosystem map, including Hannah Roberge, Jesse Colman, Evan Airey, Vistaar Verma, Victoria Lai, Alexander Orta, Prach Muneegorn, Francisca Ralil Altamirano, Abigail Setterholm, Catherine Murray, and Aurore Kucaba.
We'd like to also extend a big thank you to volunteers who helped to review the data and with the event itself, including Lukas Paltanavicius, "Maggie" Magalie Laliberté, EMBA, Martha Bentley, Kate Vellucci, Sally Jackson, Elizabeth Falco, Anna-Maria Wohlgemuth, and many others here who pitched in before, during, and after this event. Thank you!
Thank you to Travis Green and Stephen Snider for championing the event and to the NEIII Fellows and Board Members who joined and supported the project.
This webinar series is brought to you by the Community Investing Project. Learn more about their work here: www.investmentproject.org/
2026 Community Investor Accelerator
For place-focused foundations building new impact investing programs
These webinars are used to highlight this initiative, and we’re happy to support these efforts. Please follow the links to register or watch the recording:
How Foundations Get Started Investing Locally
To follow more of these events and connect with other community foundations, check out this LinkedIn group:
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.