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NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition: Call for Entries
NextBillion.net is proud to launch its second-annual academic business case competition, NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition. Once again, we seek to find the very best business cases describing organizations that use market-based approaches to economic or social development, social ventures. Read on to find out how to apply and get started.
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Tomorrow: Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference
Have you registered for the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference? It’s tomorrow, and we’re looking forward to the discussions that will build on the recent SOCAP and ANDE conferences.
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SOCAP 10: Harmonizing Tools to Measure Impact
Yet again, measurement continues to be a sexy topic. SOCAP 10 assembled social investors, social entrepreneurs, and supportive agencies to set the discourse on shaping an impact investing market based on transparency.
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Singing from SOCAP 10: Root Capital’s Foote Strikes a Chord
William Foote, Founder and CEO of Root Capital, rocked the crowd during his keynote address during Day 2 at SoCap. He opened by singing ?Satisfied Mind?, by Bob Dylan, which very much captured the theme of the conference.
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Fueling Impact at Scale: The Crossroads of Aggregate Giving
Scaling social impact and bringing the funds to fuel it are two huge challenges in the non-profit and social entrepreneurship world. As organizations scale, the risk of inefficiencies lurk; while the ability to give in large-scale amounts can cause more problems than it was meant to solve. When should you give big? When should you give small?
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SOCAP 10: “It Takes a Village”
Stepping out of the investment world and into conversations with practitioners of social enterprise at SoCap is a bit like leaving the library and entering the lab. This is the first of two posts focused on the perspectives from the field as presented at SoCap10 on building lasting relationships and design ideas to take an organization to scale.
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Upcoming Events in Europe
Are you in Europe or want to go there in the upcoming months? Are you excited about development through enterprise topics and want to meet like-minded people? If you answered "yes" to both then you should make sure to keep an eye out for some promising events coming up this fall.
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SOCAP 10, Day 2: Challenges for Program Related Investments
Day 2 of SOCAP 10 kicked off with an opening keynote by Julie Sunderland, Senior Program Investment Officer at the Gates Foundation. Julie described the foundation’s growing commitment to program-related investments (PRI), as supported by a $400 million pilot announced last fall.
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