The sixth annual Luskin Summit will feature a keynote presentation and the unveiling of our annual poll about life in Los Angeles, plus six breakout discussions. Speakers and details will be announced as the day draws closer.

FEATURED PRESENTERS

Government officials and civic leaders

Decision-makers in politics and business

UCLA scholars

Difference-makers in the nonprofit and ​philanthropic spheres

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Join us in-person at SCG's 2023 Annual Conference!

Join SCG’s 2023 Annual Conference to reimagine economic prosperity deeply grounded in mutuality. We invite you to envision an economy that prioritizes relationships with each other and our planet over profits.

Our current economy is already profoundly dependent on mutuality, but systemic inequities undermine this spirit of reciprocity and our economic well-being. We can commit to interdependence and collective freedom by divesting from exploitative and extractive practices. We can better align with movement leaders and organizers to shift capital and power toward communities most impacted by oppressive systems.

During REIMAGINE Our Economy, we will participate in an incredible journey from imagination to integration with movement leaders, culture workers, and cross-sector practitioners. Together, we will hear from experts and engage in dialogues to share prosperity, listen to our land, resource our communities, heal our culture, and repair our relations. Our philanthropic community will learn how to apply these principles through a systems change approach in economic justice, climate and culture change, and other issue areas.

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Join us on November 16th for Rooted - an annual fundraiser for LA Más with food, music, dancing, art and family-friendly fun!

We’ll be honoring teams in our solidarity ecosystem who have invested deeply and nurtured tenderly the foundations of a regenerative economy. Support our growing movement to transform our relationship to land, labor, and care in Northeast LA.

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We're celebrating cleantech leaders.

The LACItizen Awards honors the partners who are helping LACI build an inclusive green economy and a sustainable future for Los Angeles. We invite you to join us for an evening of inspiration as we celebrate our local changemakers, enjoy culinary delights, and toast our honorees, partners and friends with craft libations, at the La Kretz Innovation Campus on November 9, 2023. This year, we’re honored to celebrate Pedro Pizarro, President and CEO of Edison International. 

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Join Next City on August 3 as we discuss how economic development can play a key role in racial equity and promoting economic well-being for communities of color.

The International Economic Development Council’s (IEDC) Equitable Economic Development Playbook offers concrete steps and recommendations on how economic development can play a key role in racial equity and promoting economic well-being for communities of color. To help detail the actionable steps within the playbook, Gregory Johnson, Managing Director of U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity at The Rockefeller Foundation, will have a candid discussion with IEDC’s Vice President of Knowledge Management and Development, Frankie Clogston, Ph.D., about centering equity in economic development practices and leveraging incentives and tools to build inclusive local economies.

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Join Philanthropy California to discuss the use of guarantees in impact investing and learn more about the Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP).

Financial guarantees are an evolving tool for philanthropies looking to back mission-aligned projects normally beyond the scope of traditional finance. How can foundations leverage their balance sheets to accelerate community investments?

The Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP) is a first of its kind platform allowing guarantors to combine resources and expertise by establishing a single, one-stop-shop for intermediary lenders in the climate, affordable housing, and small business sectors. Together, this group is making more and new types of community development transactions feasible by putting more of their assets to work in service of greater community impact.

Join us to explore guarantees as a type of credit-enhancement tool and one way that different types of capital can work together to develop attractive deals and create larger impact.

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Spring Power Day is a celebration of 34 companies in LACI’s flagship Incubation Program and their outstanding work to build an inclusive green economy.

Join us as we publicly graduate our first cohort of startups and support the scaling of their unique businesses serving our communities. We’ll also welcome our newest cohort, share the inside scoop on our startups’ fundraising and green job creation, and hear the latest findings from those founders driving LACI funded small-scale technology pilots.

We invite all cleantech advocates to participate in this power-packed showcase of progress made in clean energy, zero emissions transportation, and sustainable cities.

AGENDA

• 10:30am: Virtual Platform Launches & Networking

• 10:45am: A Farewell & Welcome to LACI’s Incubation Companies

• 10:50am: Panel: "Capital Raises that Made an Impact"

• 11:10am: Pilots Showcase - meet 10 startups in 30 minutes!

• 11:45am: Closing Remarks & Networking

Spring Power Day will be hosted virtually and a link will be provided to all registrants in advance of the event.

Stay tuned to laci.org/powerday for the latest speaker line-up and additional details.

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Join LAANE for a celebration of the leaders that make progressive change possible.

The premier progressive awards gala in Los Angeles, the City of Justice Awards Dinner honors the nation’s leading changemakers and celebrates a bold, common vision of a new economy for all. Every year, the City of Justice Awards attracts 1,000 attendees, including labor leaders, elected officials, philanthropists, celebrities, artists and activists. Past honorees and speakers include Vice President Kamala Harris, IUPAT General President Ken Rigmaiden, Norman Lear, Jane Fonda, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Teamsters General President James Hoffa Jr., ABC's Modern Family, AFT President Randi Weingarten and many others.

Thursday, December 2, 2021
Reception: 6pm PST
Program: 7:30pm PST

RSVP and ad deadline: November 12, 2021

If you prefer to pay by check, please download and complete this form and mail in with payment.

RSVP here.

MASTERCLASS:

Tipping the Scales - How The Helm is Using SPVs to Build the Next Generation of Women Investors

The Helm CEO Lindsey Taylor Wood and Assure CEO Jeremy Neilson will get together for a virtual fireside chat to discuss the convergence of innovation in the democratization of private investing. They will discuss strategies and tools that enable more access to private investing, specifically enabling a new generation of women investors and founders.

Topics for Discussion include:

• - Origin story of The Helm - How to Invest in More Women-founded companies and Change Who is at the Investment Table

• - Why The Helm Launched a Small Fund with Lower Investment Minimums to Become More Accessible

• - Why an Angel Syndicate as an Entry Point for Women to Use Capital to Invest

• - Why We Need More Women Angels to Have More Fortune 500 Women CEOs

Featured Guest Speakers

Lindsey Taylor Wood

Over the last decade, Lindsey has built and run two companies and The Helm’s first fund. A proven operator and investor, she has invested in some of the country’s best women-led companies.   An expert in the empowerment of girls and women, prior to The Helm, Lindsey founded LTW, an impact studio with an emphasis on contemporary feminism. Clients include actor Matt McGorry, MAKERS, The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, The Harnisch Foundation, Women Moving Millions, and filmmakers Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus, and Rashida Jones, among others.  Prior to consulting, Lindsey was on the founding team of  Catapult , a crowdfunding platform for girls and women. Having spent 15+ years in the gender equality movement, her ability to found, build, and introduce new funding products with a gender lens has made her a sought-after strategist in the women’s rights movement.

 Jeremy Neilson

Jeremy Neilson, an Inc. 5000 entrepreneur, is a founder and a co-CEO of Assure. Prior to Assure, Mr. Neilson launched and managed Utah’s $300M private equity program, the Utah Fund of Funds, which invested in 28 funds and across most of the private equity spectrum. Before the Utah Fund of Funds, Jeremy was an associate with the University Venture Fund where he spent time working closely with local and national venture capitalists on company due diligence. Jeremy has served as a venture capital fund advisory board member and investment committee member for various foundations.

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Traditionally, investors have had one duty – to make the greatest possible return on capital for their shareholders. It’s an outdated model that’s brought us to the brink of climate disaster, and we need a new way of understanding value and returns that looks beyond the short-term and drives resources towards scalable solutions. There are trillions of dollars in so-called ‘green’ funds, but how do we fundamentally redesign financial markets to make responsible, climate-focused investing the rule rather than the exception?

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The cascading crises of 2020 have not only brought into stark relief the immediacy of the global climate emergency but also the deadly costs of racial and economic inequities. With little hope for another round of stimulus funding from Congress before November, VX Hack-a-thon Session #3 will explore opportunities, regardless of the election’s outcome, for paving the road to recovery with multi-benefit and community-driven green infrastructure investment.

Continuing the conversation sparked at VX2020 in January, join Milken Institute Director, Dan Carol; Stockton Sr. Economic Development Advisor, Ann Rogan; and i(x) Investments President, Christine Harada, who lead this hack-a-thon highlighting mechanisms for aligning, expediting, and optimizing green infrastructure investment with local, state, and federal COVID recovery efforts in the months to come.

Register here.