Preliminary Content Outline

“Nourish”: Taking active care of body, mind, spirit, nature, and community*

* Subject to change based on participant availability and continuing stakeholder conversations

 This year, the Summit is focused on what it takes to “Nourish” – looking at how we take care of ourselves and each other through food, hospitality, and the arts. You will have the opportunity to join interdisciplinary teams, working on projects to solve real issues, spark creativity, and generate new excitement for fully engaging their world . Together, we’ll come up with fresh ideas to be presented at a final Hōʻike, or showcase, that celebrates the work of the previous three days.

  • This journey will explore how we could build economic systems that have societal health at their core. It will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofit leaders, and community builders to examine the nuts and bolts of creating more equitable economic models — including how decisions are made, how resources move, who benefits, and what kinds of support help enterprises thrive over time.

    Journey Detail

    Over three days, participants could move from shared framing to applied design: first identifying what makes an economic model more equitable and community-serving, then looking at examples of shared power, governance, capital, and accountability, and finally working in small groups to shape a practical model or set of principles. Groups of 15-20 could each focus on a different tension, such as access to capital, ownership, growth, or accountability.

  • Participants develop a short set of principles, model, or decision-making framework for building economic systems with greater shared power, community benefit, and long-term accountability.

  • Shared Power, Shared Prosperity

    How do we build economic systems with the communities they are meant to serve? This session explores what changes when community leaders, entrepreneurs, funders, and institutions share more power in shaping economic models — from ownership and access to capital to decision-making, governance, and long-term accountability. Together, participants will consider what it takes to move from inclusion toward real agency, and how more equitable models can take root in practice.

     Scaling Without Losing the Plot

    How can businesses and organizations grow without extracting from the people, places, and values that made them possible? This session looks at the pressures that come with scale — capital, supply chains, market demand, efficiency, and growth expectations — and explores the choices and structures that help keep a mission rooted over time. Participants will consider how growth can expand impact without flattening complexity, compromising purpose, or disconnecting from community.

  • To be announced soon