Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Thursday
October 16
2008Social Capital Markets: Roxanne Miller on “Beyond Microfinance”
Guest blogger Roxanne Miller is a 2nd-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, focusing her studies on the intersection of international development, social enterprise and technology.? She spent this past summer interning at Unitus and working on an ICTD health care...
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Wednesday
October 15
2008Social Capital Markets: “We Are Jealous of Microfinance…”
... said Christine Eibs Singer from E+Co, referring to the way that industry has been able to achieve the “investment class status", raise millions in capital and at the same time operate under common standards under the leadership of organizations like CGAP. The need for such a...
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Tuesday
October 14
2008Social Capital Markets: “Moving Beyond Wishful Thinking”
Katherine Fulton kicked off Day 2 of the Social Capital Markets Conference this morning. Her address focused on the complexities of this moment in history for the economy as a whole and for the social capital markets movement in particular. Ms. Fulton addressed the driving forces behind...
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Tuesday
October 14
2008Social Capital Markets: “The Sector Still in A Rudimentary Stage”
Asad Mahmood, who leads Deutsche Bank’s social investing arm, took the stage for today’s keynote address at the Social Capital Markets conference. His intervention closed the formal sessions that took place during the first day of conference. I met Asad a couple of years back in...
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Monday
October 13
2008From Social Capital Markets: Social Entrepreneurs Turning Into Sustainable Organizations
Monday afternoon sessions just kicked off with the panels on each of the three tracks here at SoCap08. The “Social Entrepreneur Track” is of special interest to me, as it concernes the tools and skills needed to turn social entrepreneurs into sustainable and scalable organizations...
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Friday
October 10
2008Guest Post: “Imagine the Base of the Pyramid Using Social Networks”
Guest blogger Jenara Nerenberg is the Founder of BOP Source. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she is a Columnist for a national business magazine and a Consultant on new media marketing. Jenara was a Consultant to the Harvard Center...
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Thursday
October 9
2008Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Mathias Craig, from blueEnergy Group
In times like this, when clean energy technologies are?the hype and talent in the sector is in high demand,?Mathias Craig could have any job in the world. His training includes engineering degrees from both UC Berkeley and MIT, and his true passion is wind power.?In stead of getting?taking...
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Thursday
October 9
2008Guest Post: Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance Announced at the Clinton Global Initiativ
Guest blogger Sofia Leon is currently the Senior Program Coordinator at the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International. Her passion is sustainable social enterprise, specifically seeking to scale BOP energy delivery without subsidies. By Sofia LeonFollowing an all-star Opening...
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