CSP North America

The Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) North America is a nonprofit organization focused on transforming social, environmental, and economic systems by enabling holders of wealth to use all their forms of capital for positive impact.

CSP North America was founded in February of 2022 to expand the work of CSP at The University of Zurich. CSP’s global vision is that scientifically robust evidence enables the entire portfolio of every wealth holder to fully advance sustainable development. CSP North America’s mission is to equip ultra high net wealth investors (UHNWIs) with the training, skills, and networks they need to co-create regenerative systemic change.

Now that CSP North America is fully operational, the organization is scaling its existing programs and growing its portfolio of programs and research in the North American region. In 2024, the team will build the foundation to reach a working model for systems change investing, leveraging the collective power of impact-oriented UHNWIs.

Historical Background

CSP North America developed out of CSP at The University of Zurich, an academic research and teaching institution that has a distinctive edge in bringing together wealth holders, investment professionals, scientists, and policy makers to generate knowledge and to mobilize substantial amounts of financial capital toward impact.

CSP at The University of Zurich developed out of the Impact Investing for the Next Generation program for wealth holders that was launched in 2015 at the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard Kennedy School. The program is now in its 9th iteration. Globally, we’ve trained 500 wealth holders and 10,000 wealth managers, and mobilized up to $32 billion toward impact . Our “Next Gen Program” is at the core of our wealth holder training programs, and is complemented by a range of other research and training programs. ACCELERATE is CSP North America’s strategic focus for intermediate+ impact investors, with an emphasis on using systemic investing, polycapital – meaning financial and non-financial capital – regenerative approaches, and personal development to transform our economic and financial system.