Welcome to The Hope Summit 2024!
The Hope Summit is an annual conference and festival held in Charleston at the end of September to highlight multidisciplinary and intersectional challenges facing our world and celebrate community-driven solutions that create agency and hope for communities worldwide to adapt for a bright, regenerative, equitable future.
We believe that to heal our world, and ourselves in the process, we must see ourselves as a part of the natural world, not apart from it. We must reframe our understanding of community to embrace its ecological definition of all interconnected life that sustains and regenerates itself within a shared locality.
In 2024, The Hope Summit will explore how we can reshape our relationship with water, waterways, and the ocean through community-driven solutions. We live on a blue planet, one that is defined by and shaped by water. No matter where we live, we are connected to the ocean. Through a systems-based understanding of the world, we can uplift and empower local leaders and traditional ecosystem managers to restore and steward their lands, wetlands, rivers, estuaries, islands, and oceans. By understanding and working with the natural systems that connect us, we can adapt to a changing climate, protect and restore key ecosystems, halt biodiversity loss, and promote a regenerative and equitable future for communities worldwide.
The Hope Summit 2024 organizers invite leaders and solutions practitioners from all walks of life, disciplines, and stages of their professional journey to join us in Charleston from September 28th to October 1st to cultivate ideas, accelerate solutions, and inspire hope for the future of our communities and the future of our planet.
Sept. 28th, 4 - 9:30 pm
The Charleston Museum
Enduring Curiosity presents The Hope Summit's debut Film Festival at The Charleston Museum.
Join us for two blocks of inspirational films including a Family Matinee of the International Ocean Film Festival 2024 Traveling Program and a Feature Screening of "River" followed by an expert panel.
September 29th, 1-4 pm
Downtown Charleston
The Hope Summit 2024 Festival returns for its third year bigger and bolder than before with dozens of local nonprofits, community organizations, government entities, educational institutions, and sustainable local vendors coming together in an outdoor market of hope and community-driven solutions.
Sept. 30th - Oct. 1st
The Charleston Museum
The Conference is an opportunity for solutions creators, practitioners, and accelerators to exchange knowledge, experience, and best practices to strengthen community-driven solutions in the South Carolina Lowcountry and around the world.
The conference includes an opening program honoring "Blue Mind" creator Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, a mainstage panel series, fireside chats, live podcast recordings, a poster session, one-on-one mentorship sessions, and networking opportunities.
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The Hope Summit is organized and hosted by the Carolina Ocean Alliance, a 501(c)3 nonprofit from Charleston, South Carolina with the help of our partners, sponsors, and supporters like you.
At The Hope Summit, we cultivate ideas, accelerate community-driven solutions, and inspire hope. We will invest in the future of our community through small grants and support through The Hope Summit Works Fund and invest in communities around the world by offering scholarships to emerging leaders and stewards to attend The Hope Summit 2024 Conference through the Next Generation Fund.
With your help, we seek to award 5 grants of $500 annually to community projects across the South Carolina Lowcountry and award free passes to The Hope Summit Conference to 100 students and early career professionals with some also receiving travel and housing assistance during the event.
Please consider including a donation in your ticket purchase to support these great programs and to make The Hope Summit accessible to all.
