Impact Investment - Funding Readiness Workshop

**Register by March 13th! Maximum of 24 participants and we expect to sell out quickly. Please bring a max of two people from your team.**

This interactive workshop will help Denver area nonprofits / social enterprises assess if impact investment is a viable path for them and understand what they need to be funding ready.

The event will take place VIRTUALLY on Friday, March 15th at 9-10:30am MT. 

Who is it for:

Nonprofit and social enterprise executive directors and board members who are interested in learning how impact investments (e.g., PRIs - program-related investments & MRIs - mission-related investments) can be used to fund large-scale projects and initiatives. 

What you’ll learn:

1. The case for Integrated Capital: Understand the spectrum of impact investment capital with a particular emphasis on "impact-first" capital. Learn why funders and donors are incorporating impact investing into their giving strategies and what types of projects are best suited for this type of funding 

2. Benefits & Case Studies: Explore real-life examples where impact-first investments have moved projects from vision to reality. Includes illustrations of different types of investment structures and vehicles.

3. Characteristics of a Successful Deal: Identify the key questions to answer to ensure an organization is creating a successful transaction. 

4. Funding Readiness: Identify key project and organizational characteristics that will position a project to successfully raise impact investing capital.

What we’ll do: 

• Presentation by our expert facilitator, Kate Krebs Lyda
• Look at successful impact investment case studies
• Interactive Q&A
• Time to connect with other attendees
• Assess your organization’s funding readiness and consider next steps

Meet the Facilitator

Kate Krebs Lyda is Principal and Founder of Staro Insights, an impact investing strategy firm that supports funders and nonprofits in impact-first capital strategies. Having worked as both as grantmaker and a fundraiser, Kate brings a refined perspective to community development finance, understanding the goals for both deploying and securing capital and where these objectives intersect. Kate is particularly focused on working with community-driven nonprofits where those most affected are the ones making decisions, and with foundations and families who are interested in shifting power and resources to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other communities. 

Over her career in development and philanthropy, Kate has raised over $50 million in grants, gifts, and impact investments for nonprofit organizations and community foundations. In addition to helping organizations attract financial support, she has also help funders and philanthropists with innovative strategies for effectively deploying grants and PRIs for greater impact. Particular areas of expertise include working with organizations on their first-ever large-scale real estate projects and working on community driven projects that would not have happened if not but for impact-first capital investments. 

Kate holds an MBA from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, a Master’s of Nonprofit Management from Regis University, and a BA in English from the University of Colorado at Denver. She has served as a board member and volunteer for numerous nonprofit organizations. Kate lives in the metro Denver area with her husband, two children, and a rescue dog called Freddy.