CST & Investing Summit 2026

Sponsorship · December 1–3 · Duke Divinity School · Durham, NC

Francesco Collaborative organizes institutional investors, fund managers, foundation leaders, and the advisors who serve them around one question: what does it look like to deploy capital in genuine alignment with Catholic Social Teaching. For five years, we've built the culture, community, and market intelligence that move serious allocators from interest to action.

This December, about 150 of them gather at Duke Divinity School for three days, working toward $150,000 in support of that work. Sponsorship is how your organization stands alongside it, in the room, in front of the people making the decisions.

Who's in the room

Confirmed speakers include

Jim Sorenson, Sorenson Impact Group

Sr. Sue Ernster, President, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

Matt Ahearn, Ahearn Family Foundation

Lindsay Zizumbo, Executive Director, Sorenson Impact Foundation

Kate Walsh, Director of Training, The Global Impact Investing Network

Nicholas Banovetz, Executive Director, Better Way Foundation

Kate Barron-Alicante, Director of Impact, Abacus Wealth Partners

Carolyn LaRocco, President, LCP Institutional

Heather Beatty, HCB Insights

More to come.

Beyond the stage: partners from leading foundations, endowments, religious congregations, impact-first RIAs, and mission-aligned fund managers, together representing billions in institutional assets under management.

The investor track stays small on purpose, invite-only sessions built for asset owners and allocators, with dedicated space for the full three days. Your sponsorship reaches a room built for depth of relationship among a small group of real decision-makers.

What partnership offers

Relationships built on trust. Time alongside a curated room of institutional decision-makers and the advisors who guide them, the kind of context outreach rarely earns.

Standing in a serious community. Your institution associated publicly with a credible, established Catholic impact-investing community.

A real voice in the room. The deeper tiers include a speaking slot and a role facilitating an actual working-group conversation with the investors and allocators in the room.

A contribution that lasts. Your support builds the field itself, the culture and community that make this work repeatable for everyone involved.

We don't make investment recommendations, and sponsorship never implies FC's endorsement of any product or offering, yours or anyone else's.

Sponsorship levels

Lead Sponsor — $30,000 Everything below, plus exclusive naming of the closing dinner, an extended speaking slot to all participants, and featured prominence across every Summit communication.

Working Group Sponsor — $15,000 Everything below, plus hosting and framing one themed working-group conversation, with a speaking introduction to the room.

Summit Sponsor — $5,000 Your name recognized across all Summit materials, one complimentary registration, and your logo in the program.

Supporter — $2,000 Named recognition across the website, program, and Summit materials. This is how we recognize the broader base of organizations standing behind this work.

Add-on, any tier — Network Power-Up ($5,000) A personalized pre-Summit session mapping who in our community can advance your priorities.

Ready to talk?

For Lead Sponsor or Working Group Sponsor, email Felipe directly at felipe@francescocollaborative.org. Both levels involve shaping part of the program together, worth a real conversation before anything's finalized.

For Summit Sponsor or Supporter, you can register directly below.

Questions about sponsorship? Email cameron@francescocollaborative.org.