Tag: Social Capital

The Pragmatic Dutch

Eleven outstanding Dutch social entrepreneurs were in San Francisco Bay Area in mid-October during SOCAP, offering partnership and learning takeaways from their social entrepreneurship successes in the Netherlands.

The Development Challenge, and Opportunity, of Electrifying Africa

Improvements in technology, like availability of solar panels, and a kinder climate for investing is starting to come together for Africa, a region that has remained a challenge to extend electricity to.

How SRI Can Wreck Your Portfolio – Contrarian View

Impact investors who intentionally avoid buying shares of "sin stocks" actually help some of those companies repurchase their shares, causing the opposite of investor intentions.

Why Bill Clinton helped a 33-year-old build a $1B firm

Why Bill Clinton helped a 33-year-old build a $1bn firm
Why was former US President Clinton so impressed with a 33-year old South African businessman he had only recently met?  It was the nature of his profit-with-purpose venture. Andy Kuper had ambitious plans to help transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people in...

SOCAP16 Blended Value

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Jed Emerson, who first coined the term "Blended Value" and is Chief Impact Strategist with ImpactAssets, talked about remaining grounded, focusing less on the how and more on the why of impact investing at SOCAP16 event in September. Main Takeaway Impact investing is not a "fuzzy...

Top-down Bottom-Pyramid Impact Investing

Impact Investing by Larger Organizations: Current Trends
At the SOCAP2016 event this past September, one panel proved valuable in gaining insights into how large organizations can help drive impact, small at first, then at scale as programs mature. The Insight Treat large competitors strategically as potential partners, or treat people that might benefit from...