Impact

Impact at Summit

A community-centric approach to scaling positive impact.

Summit gathers a community of optimistic leaders across industries, with a commitment to creating a better world.

Through cross-sector partnerships, creative storytelling, and community-directed campaigns, impact at Summit leverages what we do best, together.

Impact Initiatives

Environment & Sustainability

For over a decade, Summit has designed thoughtfully curated events in surreal environments. Through this work, we understand the power of environment and context. We...

Houselessness

At Summit, “home” is central to how we understand community. And safe, available housing is the first step to creating or recovering a home.

Homelessness, oft...

Civic Engagement

The #1 reason Americans didn’t vote in the last midterm elections was because of work obligations.

Summit is partnering with Vote.org to build a growing list ...

Criminal Justice

The United States is home to some of the highest incarceration rates in the world, imprisoning 2.3 million Americans (EJI.org). The racial disparities of our justice...

We're excited to continue growing impact initiatives using four approaches:

Be the Change:

From building carbon-neutral events to improving our anti-harassment programs, we work to improve the integrity of our event operations and share best practices along the way.

Volunteer:

We connect community members with organizations to volunteer on select high-impact projects.

Storytelling:

In support of Summit impact leaders we highlight stories and best practices on Summit stages, social media, and newsletters.

Giving Campaigns:

We build campaigns to best utilize the diverse, creative resources in the Summit community. With the help of expert partners, we identify key points of leverage and create positive change, together.