Your wealth is already shaping the world. The question is how.
Capital is never neutral. Whether you steer it deliberately or leave it on autopilot, it's already at work, backing the status quo or helping build what comes next.
You know what you value and the kind of world you want your capital to contribute to. Your challenge is translating that intention into an investment strategy. That’s the gap where most next-gen wealth holders we talk to get stuck.
You don't need to be a professional investor to close the gap between who you are and how your wealth operates. You need a clear, independent place to start.
Where to start? Who to trust? How to have these conversations with family? You're not the only one asking these questions.
Maybe you've raised it with your advisors and gotten polite reassurance that values-aligned investing means giving up returns. Maybe you've sat through a summit that lit you up, then come home to a family office that runs exactly as it always has.
- New to this? The jargon and the gap between your values and your family's portfolio feel overwhelming.
- Already engaged, but stuck? You don't know how to evaluate a fund, question a wealth manager, or bring the rest of your family with you.
- Doing this alongside a sibling, cousin, or partner? You're looking for a shared language to steer things together. We encourage family members to apply as a group.
Wherever you're starting from, this is where the path gets clearer.
The program provided me with the initial vocabulary to structure conversations about impact investing and with the network and support system to ensure that these conversations actually help me achieve my impact investing goals.
Lara Lemann, Alum
Sustainable investing is a noisy space. Impact Investing for the Next Generation provides a structured way through it.
Your operational blueprint, not another lecture series.
Founded in 2015 at Harvard Kennedy School and now co-hosted with MIT Sloan, Impact Investing for the Next Generation has guided over 300 wealth holders across 11 cohorts from good intentions to real action.
Over seven months, you'll build the financial literacy and family governance skills to walk into your next wealth conversation with genuine clarity. Not because you memorized a framework, but because you've done the work: evaluated real funds, built your own investment policy, and pressure-tested it with peers living similar amily dynamics you are.
It's a protected space, governed by the Chatham House Rule. No funds to sell. No advisory services to pitch. Just the room, the work, and people who get it.
What you will walk away with
Clarify what your wealth is for: Look past the balance sheet and define what you actually want your capital to stand for, and start closing the distance between that and how it's managed today.
Master the mechanics of investing: Get hands-on with asset classes, risk, return, and liquidity, and the full sustainable investing toolbox, so you can build a portfolio and speak with your advisors as an equal, not a guest.
Put it in writing: Draft your own Investment Policy Statement, covering asset allocation, risk tolerance, and impact goals, a working document that turns intention into an actual mandate for how your family's wealth gets managed.
Know what you're really invested in: Master real fund due diligence, from screening managers to reading a term sheet, so you can evaluate a fund on the merits, not the pitch deck.
The people you learn with matter as much as what you learn.
Your cohort is curated: wealth holders who share your generation, your family dynamics, and often the exact same unspoken pressure to have this all figured out already.
12 nationalities · 300+ alumni worldwide · 33 average age (range 23–48)
Bring a sibling, cousin, or partner and you'll each get 15% off tuition. This works best as a shared journey.
Meet the experts
Led by researchers and practitioners who've spent decades at the forefront of impact investing. Hosted by the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth and MIT Sloan, both university-based and not-for-profit. No funds to sell. No advisory services
The program in numbers
An independent measurement of program alumni found
91 %
credit CSP for their increased confidence
93%
report high confidence in impact investing after the program
72%
say their family approved more impact-related opportunities
65%
made changes to their family's investment strategy
Hear from those who have been in your shoes
Over 300 wealth holders have completed this program. Their stories speak louder than anything we could write.
Practical information
This seven-month program combines intensive in-person learning with flexible online engagement, designed to fit the schedules of working professionals.
Dates & Locations
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Module 1: October 20–23, 2026 · Zürich, Switzerland
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Module 2: April 14–16, 2027 · Boston, MIT Sloan School of Management
Program Fee
Program fee: CHF 23,100 per participant. Covers onboarding, all training sessions, meals and drinks during in-person modules, coursework, staff support, and lifetime access to the alumni network. Travel and accommodation not included.
Optional add-ons
- Introduction to Finance day (CHF 1,000)
- Personal Development Module with four one-to-one coaching sessions with CSP Senior Fellow Britta Gruenig (CHF 2,280 + VAT)
- Internship placements at impact funds facilitated by CSP.
Application Deadline
Applications close September 15, 2026. Reviewed on a rolling basis following a short interview. Space in each cohort is limited by design, the value is in the room staying small.
"MIT is proud to co-host this program because it's simply unique. There is no other mechanism for building a trusted learning community among prospective impact investors with this level of instruction, accumulated wisdom, and robust alumni community."
— Dr. Jason Jay, MIT Sloan
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