Date
April 7, 2026 1:30 am – 3:00 am (PDT)Join us for the first conversation in our new series, Moving Money in Service of Life, to explore how funders and wealth holders are aligning their investments and philanthropy in service of systemic change.Hosted by Regenerosity and Be the Earth as part of the Nurture Funder Community of Practice.
Philanthropy is widely understood as a mechanism for redistributing capital for social benefit. Yet a long-standing paradox sits at the heart of the system: while philanthropic missions aim to resource social and environmental transformation, the majority of philanthropic capital remains invested through endowments, trusts, and donor-advised funds in ways that often reinforce harmful, extractive economic systems. As a result, far more harm can be done through investments than good achieved through the small percentage distributed as grants.
This session invites practitioners, wealth holders, and intermediaries who are actively working to resolve this paradox by aligning investment strategies with philanthropic purpose. Together we’ll explore what it takes to move from fragmentation towards coherence, looking at both lived examples and the structural, cultural, and emotional barriers that often stand in the way.
Our speakers bring perspectives from across the ecosystem, including:
- Wealth holders and families who have already aligned their portfolios with their purpose
- Organisations in the process of reorienting their investments to match their mission, and what makes that shift difficult
- Intermediaries and infrastructure builders developing mission-aligned financial vehicles, blended finance models, and regenerative investment pathways
Speakers:
- Lynn Murphy – Post-Capitalist Philanthropy | Transition Resource Circle
- Tim Freundlich – Impact Assets
- Matthew Monahan – Ma Earth | Biome Trust
- Jennifer Astone – Collective Action for Just Finance
- Renata Minerbo – Be the Earth Foundation
In this conversation, we’ll explore what alignment looks like in practice, and what it makes possible, the barriers wealth holders and institutions face when shifting portfolios,
the vehicles and intermediaries enabling mission-aligned and regenerative investment pathways, and why moving money into coherence is a meaningful lever for systemic change.
Whether you are a funder, wealth holder, practitioner, or ecosystem weaver, join us for a grounded and generative dialogue on how capital can be shifted out of extractive systems and into forms that genuinely serve ecological integrity, cultural renewal, and community sovereignty.
This session is part of Nurture, a community of practice convened by Regenerosity and Be the Earth, dedicated to reimagining philanthropy through trust, collaboration, and care for life.
Director, Biome Trust
Biome Trust is a philanthropic foundation dedicated to environmental health and education, based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Matthew is also the co-founder of Ma Earth, which is developing a funding platform for community-based nature projects.
Jennifer “Jen” Astone is a financial activist and philanthropic leader. As Ecosystem Director at Collective Action for Just Finance, she co-curates The Transformative 25, a list of funds transforming finance for people and planet. Collective Action for Just Finance activates a network of funds, investors, and allies for a regenerative and just economy. Jen founded Integrated Capital Investing to catalyze foundations to use all their assets to create just, regenerative economies. A coalition builder, she focuses on community-led solutions in climate, Indigenous Peoples and Agroecology. She is a Just Economy Institute fellow.
As Swift Foundation’s executive director (2011-19), Jen facilitated the mission alignment of the $60 million endowment with a $10 million impact first portfolio utilizing integrated capital focused on agroecology and climate solutions, and Indigenous Peoples.
At the Agroecology Fund, she leads the project to support agroecological businesses and territorial markets for smallholder farmers in collaboration with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Transformational Investing in Food Systems Initiative, and the Biovision Foundation
Renata Minerbo explores the intersection of capital, care, and shared power, looking for the cultural and relational conditions needed to (re)shape our economic systems.
Her impact journey started in 2009 and spans from social entrepreneurship in Brazil, as well as work across philanthropy, systemic thinking, and participatory processes. As co-founder and Head of Philanthropy of Be The Earth, she is interested in navigating complexity and building diverse partnerships to learn how to move toward greater coherence in how resources are used.
Renata’s work focuses on bridging worlds that are often kept separate — investment and philanthropy, inner work and systems change, participation and accountability — inviting more honest, grounded, and collaborative ways of working.
Founder & Executive Director, Strategic Development – ImpactAssets
Tim is an innovator of financial instruments for impact investing. Over the last 28 plus years, he served 12 at Calvert Investments and Calvert Impact Capital, helping to build the Calvert Community Investment Note ($3+ billion cumulatively invested into hundreds of nonprofits and for profits globally). While there he launched ImpactAssets as an impact investment firm and Donor Advised Fund that was spun out in 2010 – now with $5+ billion in total AUM. After more than 10 years as CEO, he now serves as executive director, strategic development. Additionally, he co-founded a venture fund and investment holding company, Good Capital, as well as the SOCAP Conference.
Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. Lynn is a co-director of the Transition Resource Circle and co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a “conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA and PhD in international comparative education from Stanford University. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff movement analyst.