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SOCAP/Europe: Marketplaces Start to Matter
It is an exciting time that requires building the right infrastructure to take impact investing to scale. Marketplaces are key for investors and enterprises to meet as well as to enable efficient capital allocation to the most effective social enterprises.
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Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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SOCAP/Europe: Three Bridges to Capital
SOCAP/Europe featured a number of sessions revolving around the question of how to provide effective and efficient intermediation between investors and entrepreneurs. In "Three Bridges to Capital" three new infrastructure initiatives explained how they contribute to making impact investing more effective.
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Thinking About the Box – Not Just Outside of It
’Think outside of the box’ is one of the most clich?d expressions in English. But when’s the last time we actually defined the box? In her book, Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development, Cal-Berkeley Professor Ananya Roy not only defines the dominant boxes of development, but unpacks their paradoxes, hypocrisy, and absurdities.
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Moving Impact Investing from Niche to Mainstream, While Protecting the Mission
Is impact investing a tool to keep good-doers busy or a tool to transform the world? The Economist’s Matthew Bishop put this question to a panel of impact investing professionals at SOCAP/Europe. Unsurprisingly, the panel’s unanimous answer was: Impact investing is here to change the world, but first there are key decisions to settle.
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- Impact Assessment
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What Does It Take to Build a Market? (An India Session @ SOCAP Europe)
How big can impact investing become? When looking for an answer (and hoping to find an encouraging one), it?s best examine a big country - like India. That’s precisely what did McKinsey and Omidyar Network did. The two organizations presented a BoP market study at SOCAP/Europe revealing a bullish outlook despite latent demand.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Why Should Your Company Engage the BoP?
Why do corporations engage with the base of the pyramid? There appear to be several distinctly different answers to this question. My conversations with corporate leaders hoping to pursue social impact and new market growth in BoP markets reveal a frequent lack of clarity about not just how to do it, but more importantly, why they should do it.
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What Contests, Soda, and the Internet Have to do With Distributing Solar Power in Tanzania
Angaza, a runner up in the 2010 Harvard Social Enterprise Pitch for Change Competition, is an enterprise aiming to illuminate the world through modular solar home lighting and battery charging systems. Building on success and challenges of others, we studied a broad range of distribution models to avoid challenges that befall many social startups.
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