Upcoming Events
Impact CFO Virtual Workshop Series with Holden Lee
April 23rd, 4:00-5:30 pm
Workshop Topic: How can we enable this next generation to accelerate innovation in impact investing? Impact investing, a swiftly evolving field, requires ongoing innovation to enhance positive returns and address pressing global challenges. Accelerating innovation requires a multi-disciplinary understanding of intricate market dynamics and capital flows.
Speaker Bio: Holden Lee has served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Financial Officer for large innovative philanthropic asset pools for the last ten years, leading new asset growth by capitalizing on emerging investment trends driven by the current $80 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer. Holden specializes in developing strategies for education, healthcare, sustainability, and asset management sectors, navigating regulatory complexities and mobilizing resources.
Past Speaker Series
Shashi Buluswar on Decarbonizing and Decolonizing Industrialization
November 16th, 2023
Dr. Shashi Buluswar, a scientist and a serial social entrepreneur, has worked to scale tech solutions on a range of issues including global health, energy access, water and food security.
Disruptive Climate Tech with Tom Chi
February 23rd, 2023
From his work as Head of Experience at Google X, to founding partner of At One Ventures, Tom Chi is dedicated to deepening the tools of human and team potential, and transforming established industries to reduce the planetary footprint.
Blue Economy Panel
November, 16th 2022
With the existential threat of climate change increasing unabated, investors look for technologies that can turn back the climate clock in scalable and profitable ways. Our expert panel discussed the viability of ocean carbon removal as a climate panacea and sustainable business model.
Voices for Change Speaker Series Panelists: Anthony Chavez, Eric Cortez, & Cristy Johnston Limon
November 4th, 2021
Voices for Change,” highlights varying levels of leadership across industry and generation. The intergenerational panel consisted of Anthony Chavez—Education advocate and grandson of the renowned social impact leader, Cesar Chavez—and Eric Cortes—youth voices advocate and UC Berkeley student, with arts education leader Cristy Johnston Limon.
Social Impact Consulting Panel Panelists
October 19th, 2021
CSSL annually hosts a panel of social impact consultants including partners from Camber Collective, Dalberg Advisors and Public Equity Group discuss everything from their own personal career journeys to how they’re advancing racial equity through their respective approaches and perspectives.