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The Opportunity Collaboration is a global network of leaders dedicated to building sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice. We convene two 4-day collaborative summits, one in the United States and one in Mexico. Both are all-inclusive and uniquely designed to help you forge alliances and advance your organization’s social impact initiatives.

The entire purpose of the Opportunity Collaboration is to connect you with new people and new ideas. Come prepared to share best practices, illuminate partnership opportunities or reveal a current passion or innovative idea. Engage your fellow Delegates with your mission.

D-Prize funds new entrepreneurs who increase access to proven poverty interventions.

The world has already invented ways to end poverty, yet the best interventions are not being distributed at mass-scale. Can you design a business or NGO that solves one of the Distribution Challenges?

If selected we will award you up to $20,000 to launch a pilot in any region where extreme poverty exists.

Select a challenge and be prepared for the following deadlines:

• The Global Competition launches on September 4th, 2018.
• Early Submission Deadline: October 14th, 2018 at midnight PT (pacific time)
• Regular Submission Deadline: November 4th, 2018 at midnight PT (pacific time)
• Extension Deadline (limited to 400 people who register): November 25th, 2018 at midnight PT (pacific time)

Together with HEC Business School and Ashoka, we are holding an Executive Education Program on inclusive business and value creation that provides a unique and comprehensive package to prepare corporate executives in charge of designing, launching or scaling inclusive business projects. Designed for corporate executives, it also welcomes social entrepreneurs, executives from large NGOs, international aid agencies and impact investors. Its format is based on experiential learning and immersion, cutting-edge academic content, insights from pioneers in the field and peer-to-peer learning, condensed into an intensive 3.5 day session held in English.

This training is NOT about how to raise money in the Silicon Valley style where your investors will expect you to grow as fast as possible at any cost so that the company can be acquired in 5-7 years and the investors make a killing. We will not waste your time teaching you how to make yourself more appealing to this kind of investor! Why? Because in our opinion, that model is wrong for 99.9% of businesses – especially woman-owned mission-driven businesses.

This training event IS about designing a capital raising strategy customized to your unique situation, values, structure, and goals. Our approach works for companies at any stage and in any industry.

Fund and Fuel Your Dreams is a 3-day intensive event where you will get hands-on, expert training on how to raise money for your business. You will leave with a step-by-step plan and resources to move the plan forward. At the event there will be opportunities for support from experts on messaging, your financials, and more. This is also a place to connect with like-minded mission-driven, heart-centered women entrepreneurs in a supportive fun environment! You’ll even have an opportunity to hear from socially conscious investors who are especially interested in women-led businesses!

SOCAP is the world’s leading conference activating the capital markets to drive positive social and environmental impact – convening the marketplace at the intersection of money and meaning. The conference brings together impact investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, business leaders and other innovators from across the world in a unique cross-sector approach to catalyze collaboration for change.

NextBillion readers can get $250 off the regular price of tickets using registration code MP_NextBillion.

The Social Good Summit Geneva is an initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Geneva office that brings together high-level decision makers to forge partnerships for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The event works as an innovation springboard: 20 developing country entrepreneurs, sourced through well-known and established global accelerators, will pitch products and services in sectors such as access to health and education, financial inclusion, food production, climate change, and agritech.

An invitation-only event, the Social Good Summit Geneva offers unique and valuable networking opportunities. 250 participants are due to attend, including innovative start-ups, impact investors, development finance actors, Fortune 500 representatives, development agencies, and more.

Why do people make the choices they do and how does context shape our actions (or inactions)? The most innovative organizations are driving real change by leveraging insights into human behavior.

The Behavioral Summit 2018 is where cutting-edge research becomes practical knowledge that can improve individual and group performance. If you can help people make better decisions for themselves and align them with your strategic objectives, the results can be transformational.

Join us October 24^th and 25^th for a one-of-a-kind gathering that puts the power of behavioral science research into your hands.

Impact investing has captured the attention of a growing community of investors motivated by the industry’s potential for a broad reimagining of the way the capital markets work.

In October 2018, investors from around the globe will convene for the preeminent gathering of active impact investors and those who are interested in building an impact investing practice.

Hosted by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and PEI Media, the Forum aims to advance and scale the market through insights from industry leaders, leading-edge research, and unrivalled networking opportunities.

The event consists of two Forum days, 30-31 October, a GIIN members-only event and the Introduction to Impact Investing Workshop on 29 October.