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Social Capital Markets 09: Beyond MFI
With the afternoon sun brightening the room and a light ocean breeze passing through the open windows, the participants in last Wednesday afternoon’s "Beyond MFI" panel turned their attention to these burning questions. April Rinne of Water.org moderated the lively discussion between Steve Hardgrave of Gray Matters Capital, Gil Crawford of...
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Looking at Sustainability Through the Lens of Finance
Professor Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business, has agreed to put his course entitled, "Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise," online for faculty at other schools to use. The course is unique in that it looks at the issue of environmental and social sustainability through an economics and finance perspective.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Indian Social Enterprises
From what is one of the most exciting laboratories for the social enterprise movement,SoCap09 brought together examples of successful "experiments" from India in a panel entitled "Indian Social Enterprises head towards Sustainability, Scalability" moderated by Charly Kleissner, co-founder of Social Impact.
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Social Capital Markets 09: From IRIS, to GIIRS to New Money
In the final plenary session of SoCap’s packed Day 2, I listened as the panel discussed "From IRIS to GIIRS to New Money". After a full day of hearing the topic of metrics raised in forum after forum, from break-outs to hallway conversations to tweets and blog reviews of earlier sessions, I was especially intrigued to hear this session.
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Pop!Tech Announces 2009 Social Innovation Fellows
As if on queue - and on the heels of SoCap09 - Pop!Tech, a leading ideas summit and social innovation network, today announces its 2009 class of Social Innovation Fellows. This will be the second class of Fellows - last year the cohort included innovators ranging from Mobile Metrix to Pharmasecure to Por Fin, Nuestra Casa to Ushahidi to...
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Social Capital Markets 09: Measuring Life at the Base of the Pyramid
What is life like at the base of the economic pyramid? How can social enterprises reach the people of the BoP at a scale that can generate widespread improvement in peoples’ lives? Last Wednesday, a panel entitled "Measuring Life at the Base of the Pyramid: Scale and Leverage for the $2 a Day Population, addressed these questions.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Towards Triple Impact
While SoCap involves a lot of investment lingo and a room full of venture funds and other players with large amounts of capital, a breakout session on "Towards Triple Impact: Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries" sought to bring together a panel of developing country entrepreneurs.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Metastasizing Metrics
It was clear statistics, data, and metrics - in this context to measure, report, and track outputs and eventually outcomes of our work - were indeed sexy topics throughout the first two days of SoCap. Believe it. Nearly every panel in some way brought up the need to increase transparency and credibility...
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