​🌍 Impact for Breakfast – Climate Week

​Join us for a special Impact for Breakfast – Climate Week session, bringing together funders, investors, and changemakers to explore how emerging investment practices can shape a greener, more equitable future.

​This session will feature a conversation with visionary leader Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, spanning climate finance, policy, governance, arts, culture, and entrepreneurship. Drawing on her extraordinary background, Indrani will share insights into emerging practices in sustainable investing, the role of creative collaboration, and the importance of aligning values with capital flows. The conversation will be moderated by Pallavi Nuka, Associate Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF) at Princeton’s School of Public & International Affairs.

​Following the conversation will be a presentation of high-level findings from the Impact Investor Pulse, a joint initiative of JRCPPF, Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area, FinPublica, and other partners. Based on a broad industry survey, this part of the session will highlight how new financing and investment approaches are reshaping the relationship between capital and environmental and social impacts.​

​Coffee and light breakfast provided!

​Speakers:

​Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri – Multidisciplinary Artist, Entrepreneur, UN Convener, Founder of OpenOrigin & Shakti Regeneration Institute 

​Pallavi Nuka – Associate Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF), Princeton School of Public & International Affairs

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​Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri is a Tribeca and Cannes Film Festival award-winning artist, director, entrepreneur, and thought leader recognized for driving transformational impact across culture, sustainability, and innovation. She is the founder of OpenOrigin and the Shakti Regeneration Institute, advancing economic opportunity, cultural preservation, and ancestral wisdom traditions for global good. She co-led an XPRIZE Rainforest team, focusing on national security through the lens of environmental stewardship, economic resilience, and strategic investments in biodiversity, education, and Indigenous-led entrepreneurship. At the United Nations, she convenes the Science Summit and co-hosts the Global People’s Summit. A Princeton-trained anthropologist and visiting lecturer, she has spoken at TEDx, Harvard, Yale, and beyond, sharing insights on scaling innovation, economic resilience, and climate stewardship. Her creative collaborations span global icons such as Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Lady Gaga, and her award-winning work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian, Centre Pompidou, and Brooklyn Museum. With expertise across policy, finance, startups, and the arts, Indrani brings a unique perspective to advancing sustainable development and building a more equitable future.

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​Pallavi Nuka is the associate director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF) at Princeton’s School of Public & International Affairs, where she leads policy and research initiatives on financing the climate transition and sustainable investing.  Pallavi also guides the Center’s strategy, outreach, and co-curricular programs to amplify the policy impact of the Center’s research at the intersection of finance, macro, and policy. She has a background in governance, environmental policy, and economic development. Before Princeton, she worked with the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility for six years, assessing the design, performance, and impact of the Bank’s investments, focusing on climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable land use. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and holds an MPA from Princeton and a B.S. from MIT.

​Event Partners:

​Finpublica, Impact Capital Forum, BASIC-NY, Climate + Positive Investing Alliance, Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC), Triibe, Impact for Breakfast, Impact Investment Exchange (iix), Princeton University, Etho Capital, One Earth, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance and Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area.

​About Impact for Breakfast:

​The Impact for Breakfast Club is an informal gathering of people from family offices, foundations, funds, venture philanthropy as well as advisory and intermediary organizations with a common focus on greater efficiency and learning in our collective quest to support and invest in social enterprise and entrepreneurship. The geographical interests of our group span from small and growing businesses in Europe to those in the furthest emerging markets.

​Our Social Investment Breakfast Club, later re-named Impact for Breakfast in 2012, began with a small circle of 8-10 people in London in 2008. It has since grown to a network of a couple of thousand people with shared interests and a desire to engage in monthly jam sessions about the challenges, models, methodologies, case studies and ideas that help us each to better navigate and understand the space between financial and social return.

​Our gatherings are informal, and free-flowing discourse over structured sessions is encouraged. Our objective is to help build relationships and the learning that drive action and ultimately, capital into this sector. The discussions, led by sector experts, must follow our strict 'no pitching' policy. The Impact for Breakfast Club should be a safe space for garnering feedback and a venue for brainstorming and deconstructing the hardest questions we face as impact financiers.

​About Impact State of Mind:

​This Impact for Breakfast Session is part of “Impact State of Mind - Investing in the Green Economy“ - a full day of groundbreaking content on the sidelines of UNGA80 designed to help investors, funders, and other stakeholders advance the impact of their work. Impact State of Mind is an initiative of Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area to create events and conferences that that catalyze action around the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals to protect the environment and improve lives.