October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
Elizabeth Funk is the CEO of DignityMoves, a nonprofit she co-founded together with several fellow members of YPO to address the crisis of homelessness in the United States. DignityMoves works to end street homelessness in our communities by building interim supportive housing with rapid, cost-effective, scalable solutions.
Elizabeth was one of the early pioneers in impact investing. She founded the Dignity Fund in 2004, one of the first for-profit funds mobilizing investment capital for the microfinance industry. She later created Dignity Capital to continue her impact investing efforts. For several years she served as Chairman of the Board of Unitus, one of the world’s most innovative microfinance accelerators. Since that time, she has been a tireless advocate for the impact investing movement, serving as a fund manager for several impact funds, a mentor to social entrepreneurs, and an angel investor. Most recently she served as the Senior GP at Dev Equity, an impact fund investing in economic development in Latin America. About half of Dev Equity’s portfolio is invested in low-income housing in impoverished regions across Honduras, Panama, and Ecuador. Elizabeth started her career as a Product Manager for Microsoft Word and on the founding team of Microsoft Office. She joined Yahoo! as one of the earliest employees, and was a co-founder of Yahoo! Shopping, among other Yahoo! services. Elizabeth was responsible for business development and strategic planning for services such as Yahoo! Finance, Search, Auctions, Greetings, Travel, and others. Elizabeth was President and CEO of CML Global Capital, a publicly traded investment conglomerate based in Canada. She is an active member of Young President’s Organization where she served on the International Board, co-founded the impact networks, and now chairs the YPO Impact Investing Initiative. She is a member of Toniic (an impact investors network) and Battery Powered, among many other impact-focused organizations. Elizabeth holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Economics with Honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. She is a proud single mother of two children and lives in San Francisco.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, Concourse: 151
This panel will be a direct, real-talk dialogue on homelessness in the United States that briefly summarizes the myriad causes of rising homelessness, then dives into innovative solutions to eradicate it with ethics, policy, and action. It will explore a range of housing and other innovative solutions locally in Los Angeles and throughout the country. The panelists, all recognized industry leaders, will describe how each is addressing the epidemic with actionable and unique efforts. They will also identify commonalities—namely, a shared harnessing of data, design, and dignity as helpful tools in their arsenal. With this, they will discuss how and […]