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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 1: Managing Impact for the Long Term
At SOCAP 2013, reaching the “tipping point” of impact investment has emerged as a central pillar of creating systemic and truly transformative change. SOCAP has assembled a group of prominent panelists to kick off the process of mapping the future of impact investment. Here’s what happened in the opening plenary session: “Managing Impact for the Long Term.”
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Moving from the What to the How of BoPBiz
The massive interest and the multi-sectorial participation in the BASE II Forum International indicate that the field of base of the pyramid business models has matured. They indicate that the debate has reached another level where the questions and issues turn around the how, not the what.
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Calvert Foundation Appoints Jennifer Pryce President and CEO
Calvert Foundation’s Board of Directors announced today that Chief Strategy Officer Jennifer Pryce will be the organization’s new President and CEO upon the departure of Lisa Hall, who is leaving Calvert Foundation to join Anthos Asset Management in the newly created position of Managing Director of Impact Investing. While Ms. Pryce will assume the role of President and CEO effective immediately, Ms. Hall will stay on as Strategic Advisor through mid-October.
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- Press Release
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Africa will Rule the World in Mobile Money, Expert Predicts
African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania have been predicted to rule the world in mobile money transactions, which include mobile banking and mobile wallet, in the next few years, going by the continent’s population and zeal for technology advancement.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Artha Venture Challenge Finalists Announced
15 social ventures in India get opportunity to access INR 25 lakh matched equity fundingThe final cohort for the Artha Venture Challenge, a national competition for early-stage social ventures in India has been announced.
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- South Asia
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Why Silicon Valley Needs a Link to the Developing World: Capacity development experiments and social enterprise scaling factors
Last week, a dozen social entrepreneurs convened on the Santa Clara University campus in the heart of Silicon Valley for the “in-residence” component of the GSBI Accelerator, a 10-month capacity development program that aims to prepare more advanced social enterprises for scaling their impact.
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Seminar on Islamic microfinance: SBP stresses upon Islamic finance industry to develop Islamic microfinance
State Bank of Pakistan has stressed upon the Islamic finance industry should take steps to make individual as well as collaborative efforts to develop Islamic microfinance in the country.
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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