NEWSLETTER VOL 28 | October 2026

Welcome, Ryan!

We are thrilled to introduce our new team member, Ryan Glasgo. Ryan has joined the Humanize Wealth Team as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer, having served as COO across impact investment funds and foundations for the past decade.

Ryan joined Humanize Wealth after seeing firsthand the power of intentional planning and allocation to meet the systemic challenges of our time. He is passionate about partnering to invest and circulate resources in ways that address inequality and ecological crises. Ryan brings over 15 years of expertise in impact investing, philanthropy, and operations, having led and built investment funds and foundations with teams from 5 to 50 people. He enjoys design thinking, process improvement, and determining how to enable efficiency in alignment with values. Outside of work, Ryan enjoys reading, hiking, mountain biking, live music and indie theatres. Originally from Vermont, he has also studied, lived, and worked in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Oxford, London, and Seattle.

To welcome Ryan, we’re featuring his blog on SOCAP26, where he looks at the challenges of being an intermediary in impact investing and what accountability to clients, fund managers, and investees requires. We also share a book on climate anxiety and collective resilience, and highlight Peace in Schools, which is raising $4MM to bring for-credit mindfulness courses to high schools.

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WHAT WE’RE READING

Climate Anxiety & Spiritual Resilience

A CAUSE WE’RE SUPPORTING

Peace in Schools

Peace in Schools offers the country’s first for-credit mindfulness course to high schools. The 12-year-old Portland-based non-profit is raising $4MM to grow its reach and impact through 2030. Tykeson Family Foundation has just awarded a new matching grant of $1MM. By certifying educators and training youth-development professionals through its Training Institute nationally, Peace in Schools will expand its impact from the 7,000 students reached since 2014 to more than 20,000 in 2030. The org is data-driven, focusing on long-term impacts evident in a recent Johns Hopkins study and ongoing exit polls. Peace in Schools program supports teens’ mental health, communication, and focus in and outside the classroom. Hear from the students themselves on how this program is transforming their lives. Contact board member, Shannon Loew, for more information (shloew@gmail.com).

EVENTS WE ATTENDED

EO Capital Roadmap Roadshow

Last month, Humanize Wealth was proud to sponsor and attend a convening focused on growing employee ownership through capital. Our team joined funders, investors, policymakers, business owners, and advocates to explore how employee ownership can scale in Washington state and beyond. We learned directly from groups offering investable opportunities, including Seed Commons and Unlock Ownership.

The event was catered by Jude’s, a fully worker-owned restaurant serving Northwest Cajun-Creole comfort food. We got to hear the first-hand story of how Jude’s became worker-owned, and the opportunities and challenges that come with that journey.

Shared ownership and local control of assets are core themes at Humanize Wealth. We believe people and communities build lasting wealth when they hold a real stake in the businesses, homes, and assets around them. Ryan attended the EO Capital Roadmap Roadshow hosted by Ownership Capital Lab at SOCAP26 in Chicago.

An Evening with Questlove

Jenae recently attended An Evening with Questlove, presented by Homestead Community Land Trust at Town Hall Seattle. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Grammy-winning musician, and cultural historian sat down with host Jenna Hanchard for a wide-ranging conversation about music, collective memory, joy, and belonging, and how we find the imagination to create something better. Proceeds supported Homestead’s work creating permanently affordable homeownership in the region.

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