From Momentum to Impact: What’s Working in Mental Health Funding
Across the mental health landscape, intention is increasingly translating into real impact.
This session, co-hosted by Annika Sten Pärson, Founding Partner and Executive Chair of The Inner Foundation and Gregory Witkop, MD, Senior Advisor at Renaissance Philanthropy, brings together perspectives from philanthropy, investment, and care delivery to explore where funding is working in practice, and what factors best enabling that progress.
A central theme is the role of funder collaboration: rather than isolated investments, the conversation will examine how coordinated, sustained approaches can unlock greater impact, enabling organisations and solutions to connect, scale, and endure.
The session will also explore what it means to act catalytically, supporting not only individual organisations, but the broader ecosystems that allow effective models to take hold and grow over time.
Through shared insight and discussion, participants will reflect on how funding strategies can evolve to better match the complexity and urgency of mental health challenges.
Who this is for
This session is for funders, investors, practitioners, and ecosystem builders working in or adjacent to mental health who are interested in more effective, collaborative approaches to funding.
What you will get out of it
Real-world examples of what is working in mental health funding
Insight into how funder collaboration can unlock greater impact
A clearer understanding of catalytic funding approaches
Ideas for supporting not just organisations, but the systems around them
This session invites participants to move beyond momentum and consider what it takes to translate investment into lasting, system-level impact.