INVESTING WITH VALUES
PROGRAM
Wealth is collective, cultural, and sovereign.
Enrollment Begins March April 1, 2026
Program starts May, 202.
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Why This Program
Investment Education for The People
Investing with Values is a Sanctum Foundation program built for professionals who have been legislatively excluded, culturally overlooked, or who haven't felt belonging in the investing world.
While mainstream financial education focuses on products and portfolios, Investing with Values expands the conversation to include the psychology of wealth, the cultural context of money, and the real pathways through we create lasting ownership, economic power and opportunity.
This program creates space for honest, community-grounded learning about investing — addressing the systems at the root of financial exclusion while building practical, real-world skills.
Core questions we answer:
  • Who gets to participate in investing — and why?
  • What does wealth building really mean?
  • How do we build wealth without losing ourselves in the process?
  • What are the real, accessible pathways to ownership and long-term economic power?
  • How do we activate our own skills sets, value, and networks to create long-term wealth
Who INvesting with Values is for
Professionals Ready to Invest, Not Assimilate
Investing with Values is built intentionally for professionals from multiple backgrounds — particularly for those of us who may not see themselves reflected in investing spaces. Our participation in creative, long-term wealth building is necessary for our own career expansion, our communities, and those coming after us.
Early-Mid-Level Career Professionals
Ambitious professionals beginning to build wealth who want a values-aligned foundation for investing and ownership.
Aspiring Investors/Owners
Individuals curious about entering the investing world — angel investing, public markets, real estate, professional sports, alternative assets, land, and more.
Corporate Professionals
Leaders inside organizations who want to understand investing beyond their 401k and build income streams outside their primary career.
Artists & Creatives
Creative entrepreneurs who want to understand how to monetize their work, invest their income, and build lasting financial security.
Small Business Owners
Operators building enterprises who want to diversify both their current revenue streams and develop a personal investing strategy alongside their work.
Community Leaders
Organizers and connectors who want to bring investment and ownership back to the communities they serve and influence.
How it works
Learning Designed to Gatebreak
The program combines technical instruction, peer learning, and practitioner-led sessions designed to build real investing confidence — grounded in your values and your community.
Live Sessions
Structured, technical sessions with practitioners of investing, community, and wealth-building.
Candid learning spaces to incorporate all parts of wealth building, including how we've been excluded from financial systems.
Practitioner Panels
Conversations with investors, entrepreneurs, and wealth-builders across different asset classes — angel investing, real estate, public markets, creative income, and more. All practitioner from within the Sanctum network.
Peer Circles
Community-driven discussions where cohort members share experiences, ask real questions, and build relationships meant to extend beyond the program. In community we practice our power to collaborate, invest, and circulate capital together.
Curriculum
Wealth, More than Just the Numbers
A cohort-based journey through the foundations of values-aligned investing — structured for depth, designed for real people, and built to last beyond the program.
The Psychology of Wealth
Unpack the beliefs, cultural narratives, and emotional patterns that shape how we relate to money, investing, and ownership. Build the internal foundation before the external strategy.
Understanding the Investing Landscape
A grounded overview of the major asset classes: public markets, private equity, angel investing, real estate, and alternative assets. Learn the language, the mechanics, and the real access points.
Align with Your Values
Explore what values-aligned and investing actually look like in practice. Learn how to evaluate investments through the lens of your community, your ethics, and your long-term vision.
Build Your Investment Strategy
Develop a personal investing framework: risk tolerance, portfolio thinking, time horizons, and how to start — regardless of where you are financially right now.
Pathways to Ownership
From equity in startups to fractional real estate to creative royalties — explore the breadth of what ownership can look like and identify the pathways most relevant to your goals.
Community & Continued Practice
Graduate into the broader Sanctum community. Build accountability, stay connected to a peer network, and continue your investing practice with ongoing support and programming.
Facilitators
The Voices You'll Learn From
Sanctum's network of interdisciplinary knowledge holders runs vast and deep. From land owner/stewardship to venture capital, to AI policy, family office and generational wealth building, early retirement, restaurant ownership, women's sports, investing in art, we could go ON. Each week, we'll hear voices from across the Sanctum ecosystem, giving you access to many different voices, showing you all that is truly possible in regards to participation in our own wealth and prosperity.

Check back as we update and confirm additional voices across investing, ownership, arts, entrepreneurship, and community wealth-building.
Family Office Whisperer and Investor
Decolonizing Wealth Advocate and Teacher
Black Ops VC investor
AI specialist
Financial Therapist, Author
Battery innovator, Policy advisor, Investor
PayPal Ventures, Angel Investor
EarthSeed Farms, Land Steward
Gallery Owner, Art Investor
Open Venture Capital, Techstars
Global Fund Manager, Investor, Land Steward
How Women Invest, How Women Lead
Author, Doula, Investor, Advisor, Land Steward
Partners & Supporters
Support the Program
Investing with Values is an infrastructure for investment education that is culturally relevant, community-rooted, and widely accessible.
We are inviting aligned partners and sponsors who share our commitment to expanding access to investment knowledge and demonstrate their belief in a more inclusive wealth-building future.
Partnership supports program delivery, facilitator compensation, scholarships, and our ability to keep access open to a diverse, cross-sector cohort.
What Partnership Includes
  • Brand recognition across program materials
  • Become a part of IWV's advisory group
  • Access to a cross-sector, high-potential cohort
  • Opportunity to help shape the curriculum
  • Support sponsorship opportunities
  • Post-program Impact Report from Sanctum Foundation
Join the Cohort
A values-aligned investment education program for professionals ready to build real economic power.
📍 Format
Nine weeks
Two sessions/week
📅 Enrollment
Enrollment begins April 2026
Space is limited
🤎 What is the cost?
Sanctum Foundation works to provide equitable access to all programming. Cost for the program is a sliding scale based on income levels and socioeconomic factors.
About Sanctum Foundation
Sanctum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and membership-supported organization that provides education, community, and culturally relevant investment programming for professionals committed to building long-term economic power.