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SOCAP26 is designed to move the conversation from ideas to action. This year's agenda reflects a renewed focus on creating more opportunities for meaningful collaboration, practical learning, and solution-building before, during, and beyond the event. We are excited to share the partial agenda and a snapshot of the new features we’re looking forward to at this year’s convening:

• New Chicago Community Sessions will bring attendees directly into the neighborhoods, organizations, and innovation hubs shaping the city's impact ecosystem. These off-site sessions on the first day of SOCAP26 will give participants the opportunity to experience impact not as a theory discussed on stage, but as tangible, place-based work happening in real time alongside the practitioners building it.
  
  
• The new Capital Provider Experience offers curated opportunities for investors, fund managers, foundations, family offices, and other capital allocators to forge actionable partnerships around emerging financing models. Everyone in the community is invited to join a live webinar on July 23 to learn more about this experience! 
  
  
• The SOCAP26 Tracks have been reimagined to reflect evolving capital flows, cross-sector collaboration, and the solutions defining the future of impact. This year, each track will launch through a virtual opening webinar in the weeks leading up to the live event, held October 12-14 in Chicago. These pre-sessions — available live and on demand — will equip participants with shared context and network connections before Day 1, allowing more time for deeper conversations and collaborative problem-solving while on-site.

We will provide instructions to SOCAP26 ticketholders on how to sign up for these opportunities. If you have not yet reserved your spot, take advantage of discounted Spring Tickets to save $400. The ticket price increases soon, so don’t wait!

In This Edition

• Explore the SOCAP26 partial agenda.
• Tune in to a new Money + Meaning episode on unlocking small business potential.
• Join the webinar, A Funder Preview of SOCAP26, on July 23.
• Discover the community-driven SOCAP Open sessions selected for SOCAP26.

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🔖 The SOCAP26 Agenda: Building Solutions Together

The agenda reinforces SOCAP’s commitment to strengthening connections between capital and impact and accelerating solutions long after the event concludes.

Inspired by the positive response to Capital Connections Day last year, SOCAP26 will emphasize participatory, action-oriented engagement across all three days — prioritizing interactive sessions, deeper relationship-building, and opportunities to connect around emerging models, financing strategies, and actionable partnerships. Preview the partial agenda today, and follow along on LinkedIn for more session and speaker announcements soon! EXPLORE THE PARTIAL AGENDA.

PS: Interested in hosting a session or community engagement opportunity at SOCAP26? Get in touch to learn about SOCAP partnerships!

From Silos to Success: Keys to Equitably Unlocking Small Business Potential

Featuring Tonitrice Wicks (Winrock International), Frank Scott Jr. (City of Little Rock), Dr. Alisha Murphy (Navajo Nation Division of Economic Development), and Amy Cortese (ImpactAlpha).

Small business finance is often discussed as a single, static problem: Entrepreneurs need capital, and capital isn't reaching them. But access looks entirely different depending on where a business sits and who governs the ground beneath it. A new episode of the Money + Meaning podcast, recorded live at SOCAP25, explores how targeted business support and cross-sector collaboration can help reduce marginalization and build more resilient local economies for socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs. TUNE IN.

Join the Webinar! In Good Company: A Funder Preview of SOCAP26

Learn how SOCAP26 can help you make meaningful progress toward your goals during this webinar featuring Sarah Sterling (SOCAP Global), Dipti Pratt (Toniic), and Pamela Roussos (WeavingImpact). 

Join a live virtual session at 12 p.m. ET on July 23 for an inside look at why leading impact investors, family offices, foundations, donor-advised fund holders, wealth advisors, and fund managers are gathering at SOCAP26. We’ll explore what makes SOCAP different this year with a spotlight on the Capital Provider Experience — a pathway that creates opportunities for allocators to engage with peers, discover emerging opportunities, gain insight into market trends, and build trusted relationships that can lead to future collaborations and investments. Ask questions of the Capital Provider Experience organizers, meet other capital allocators, and learn how to make the most of your time at SOCAP26. REGISTER.

The SOCAP26 Open Sessions Created by and for Our Community

After nearly 300 proposals and more than 13,500 community votes, our Content Curation Councils and the SOCAP Content Team have determined which will be showcased at SOCAP26.

Join us in celebrating the sessions selected through the 2026 SOCAP Open process! These forward-thinking and solutions-oriented sessions span the five SOCAP26 content tracks. They feature impact leaders with not just ideas and inspiration, but also tangible tools, resources, and lessons that can be applied, adapted, and scaled. EXPLORE THE SESSIONS.

"Pathways to Shared Prosperity” at SOCAP26 🌱

"How do we move into a paradigm of shared ownership of economic autonomy that can lead to all sorts of political, economic, and social autonomy?" In this video, Morgan Simon of Candide Group introduces "Pathways to Shared Prosperity," one of the five content tracks at SOCAP26. This track invites attendees to reimagine how investment, policy, and inclusive approaches to work, ownership, and economic participation can drive shared prosperity, strengthen communities, and create lasting impact. WATCH HERE.

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