GP Dinner #181 | Politics & Impact Investing at Manny’s – San Francisco, CA

WHAT: GP Dinner #181 | Politics & Impact Investing at Manny’s

WHERE: Manny’s, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN: 6:00 to 9:00pm on September 29th, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU’RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 181st dinner on September 29th at Manny’s in San Francisco’s Mission district.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

This evening will include a sneak peek screening of clips from the upcoming docuseries Bootstraps, a deep dive exploration of universal basic income (UBI) that documented the lives and experiences of eleven diverse American households receiving a basic income for over two years.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ?conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:

Our friend Janine Firpo is co-founder of Invest-For-Better and the recent author of Activate Your Money. A writer, angel investor, impact investor, and social entrepreneur, for almost 20 years Janine has been on a personal mission to invest all of her money in alignment with her values and to help others to do the same.

Most of us are aware of the incredibly significant political consequences of the coming election cycle, but few of us are aware of the financial implications of our current political divisions. Affirmative action has been repealed and there’s an attack on funds that were designed to serve minority Americans and move capital to previously ignored entrepreneurs. There are coordinated assaults on ESG investment strategies and impact investing, trying to steer capital away from sustainability and to diminish the power of shareholder choice. Many of these attacks are being underwritten by the oil and gas industries which see the shift in energy investments as an existential threat to their businesses.

How are progressive investors fighting back? What are the biggest groups focused on reversing climate change, clean and renewable energy and addressing wealth inequality? Are we facing structural reforms that limit our choices on how we can invest our money for both financial returns and social impact?

Tonight we’ll discuss the intersection of policy, politics and capital flows and how these shape our options when it comes to investing our money.

OUR CHEF:

Chef Anthony Giacobbe has been cooking Californian Farm to Table Cuisine for over 20 years. He got his start working directly with farmers and produced grown at Esalen, California’s legendary retreat center in Big Sur.

Chef Anthony’s cooking is a celebration of freshness, seasonality, and cultural fusion. His commitment to farm-to-table dining and his love for Asian cuisine continue to redefine the culinary landscape, offering a unique and delicious experience that stays true to the roots of California’s rich agricultural heritage. Anthony has also spent a year traveling Latin America and has a great respect for all things taco.

OUR MENU:

TO START:

Prawn and scallop toast w/cilantro mint yogurt and sesame seeds

Vegan blue cheese dip w/organic red peppers, watermelon radish, painted serpent cucumbers, sugar bomb tomatoes

MAINS:

Aguachile w/Pacific line caught halibut, chili de arbol, green papaya, micro sprouts

Star Route Farms lettuce, w/Marcona almonds, Humboldt Fog goat cheese, Bosc pears, fig balsamic and tarragon dressing

Smoked Stemple Creek tri-tip w/red pepper salsa criolla, crispy new potatoes

Roasted farmers market winter squash w/Bellweather Farms Yogurt, pomegranate seeds, pistachios, mint

Kale w/smoked salt, maple, and mustard seeds

TO FINISH:

Purple sweet potato pie w/coconut cream sauce

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.

Below: Our fire pit in front of the Good People Lodge at Camp Earnest.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.com

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we’ve purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Below: Catherine Connors speaks on Biophilia in Hollywood at a recent GP Dinner in SF.