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Weekly Roundup – SOCAP13 Takeaways: Plus, things we could take away (completely) from buzzwords
Regardless of whether “manufacturing,” “inventory,” or “design” follows it, “lean” is a buzz word that has zipped around the business lexicon for the better part of a decade. But a word to the wise: it does not apply well to every sector – including ours, i.e. the social sector.This and other takeaways from SOCAP13.
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 3: Mainstreaming impact investing, healing Detroit and developing communities
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here’s their rundown of Day 3 (Thursday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from three of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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Social Impact Investment Taskforce takes shape at SOCAP
A global consortium of leading social finance experts was formally announced on Wednesday as part of a commitment made by the Group of Eight Social Impact Investment Forum earlier this year.
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Fighting Poverty, and Critics
Nina Munk’s new book, “The Idealist,” is about the well-known economist Jeffrey Sachs and his “quest to end poverty,” as the subtitle puts it. I know: That subtitle sounds like classic book-industry hyperbole, but, in this case, it’s not. That really is what Sachs has been trying to do. The question of whether or not he is succeeding is where things get tricky.
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Impact Investing 2.0 — What $3 Billion Tells Us About the Next $300 Billion
There's an impression that the ongoing effort to use investment dollars to achieve both financial and social returns is elusive, with no coherent core of best practice. This is simply not the case.
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Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatible
Why should poor people receive the most obsolete technologies—when their lives can be impacted the most by advances in technology? Should my education and talent be used to make rich and powerful corporations even more so—or to help those in need? These are questions that Alfredo Zolezzi agonized over after achieving early success as a scientist and entrepreneur.
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Putting a Face to Social Innovation: Without adoption, there can be no innovation
Having a hard time defining social innovation? So did I, but as I recently learned social innovation is one of those things you simply “know when you see.” I recently had the opportunity to participate in an exciting panel on the matter at the II BASE Forum International, a large-scale international event celebrated by the IDB in Medellín, Colombia in June.
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Pedaling for progress with cargo bikes
For Victoria Holanda, fetching water used to be a backbreaking chore. “Dati ay suson naming mag-asawa ang isang kawayan; ang timba ay nasa gitna naming dalawa,” she recalled. “Inaabot kami ng tatlong oras araw-araw sa pag-igib ng tubig mula sa isang bukal na 500 metro ang layo sa bahay namin.”
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