Social Innovation Fund Moves Swiftly Forward Despite Funding Threat
Takeaways from an interview with SIF Director Paul Carttar after his keynote panel discussion at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference this past weekend.
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A Toolbox for Change: the Social Capital Markets Conference
The sold-out Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco last week was a veritable get together of who’s who of nonprofits and for-profit social enterprises.
The conversations ranged from investing in organic farms in Vermont to grantmaking for mental illnesses.
Often though, the two camps did not mix. I heard some nonprofits complain that some people there weren’t interested in them because they were a nonprofit. Despite their having a record of success and impact, these nonprofits had difficulty getting interest from funders. Some people said they only wanted to fund for-profit mission driven companies... (continue reading this blog post)
Achieving Greater Impact Through Model-Sharing
After Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, the entire social infrastructure of the city swiftly collapsed. The education system, for example, had to be rebuilt from ground zero because the storm destroyed 110 out of 126 public schools. Today, as New Orleans struggles to reinvent effective public education, the city has more public charter schools than any public school system in the nation... (continue reading this blog post)
Reviewing the Past, Predicting the Future
The author takes a crystal ball to the 2009 economic landscape.
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Social Enterprise in Scotland: The World Forum
The first Social Enterprise World forum focuses on how to use business to accomplish social outcomes.
A New Way to Respond to Natural Disasters
Better practices in disaster relief involve market-orientated nonprofit organizations, or social-mission-orientated, for-profit companies, playing a more prominent role.
MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.
Where’s Our Bubble?
Investment in the most promising ideas and the highest performing nonprofits lags well behind their true value.
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