In this conversation Alicia DeLia and I explore what it means to move money in ways that are relational, reparative, and non-extractive. Alicia is the founder of Buen Vivir Capital Institute, and her work sits at the intersection of philanthropy, impact investing, social movements, and community-rooted leadership. This conversation brings our show’s ongoing questions about money, values, power, and care into the world of capital allocation—asking not only where money goes, but how it arrives, who gets trusted, and what kinds of relationships it creates.

• Alicia's work across philanthropy and impact investing
• Why the Buen Vivir Capital Institute needed to become a platform
• Wealth holders as financial activists
• Trust-based, restorative, and reparative capital
• The roots of impact investing: Catholic nuns, microcredit, and activism
• Activating wealth holders in Latin America
• The role of network weavers and ecosystem builders
• Alicia's multi-class childhood and financial background
• Rewriting the development playbook in Central America
• The need for dignified, non-extractive investment

Alicia works at the intersection of capital, community, and impact leadership development across the U.S., Latin America, and Africa. Throughout her career, she has raised and helped mobilize more than $100 million for social enterprises and impact-driven initiatives globally. As a fundraiser, international economist, and convener of right-relationship capital, she designs spaces and programs for impact leaders and funders where money, power, and humanity can be brought back into alignment to accelerate human and ecological thriving.

Through the social impact institute and network she founded, Buen Vivir Capital Institute, she helps mobilize integrated capital (investments + philanthropy) into the most undercapitalized ecosystems of the Americas & Africa—while helping impact leaders and entrepreneurs create effective and sustainable fundraising programs grounded in trust and relationship as well as organizational rigor. She also works with philanthropists and impact investors to help advance their ability to fund impact enterprises in innovative and impactful ways, particularly advancing learning and activation of integrated capital and blended finance to marginalized communities and emerging economies.

She is building the future of impact capital—and it is grounded in rigor, humanity, and relationship. Join her @Buen Vivir Capital Institute

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