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The Social Capital Markets Conference 3.0

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I just registered for this year’s Social Capital Markets Conference held in San Francisco in October. It is my favorite conference in the social innovation space for a number of reasons, and I think this year’s conference (the third) may just be even better. The Social Capital Markets Conference brings together social entrepreneurs (both for-profit […]

Nonprofits and the Emerging Social Capital Market

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Last week’s Social Capital Markets Conference was an amazing experience.  You really felt as though you were at the beginning of something pretty innovative. The financial market collapse of the last year has given the emerging social capital markets, where social impact and money converge, a voice and credibility.  Indeed some social investments, like those […]

Organizing the Chaos

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At the beginning of anything there is chaos, so it is with the creation of the social capital marketplace.  Day 2 of SoCap was about understanding and starting to discuss the chaos that is emerging in this marketplace.  As Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation said in the plenary about creating infrastructure for this new […]

The Beginning of a Movement

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You really get the sense here at the edge of the San Francisco Bay at Fort Mason Center that you are at the beginning of something amazing.  There are 1,000 of us here at the second annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SoCap), and there are some amazing people, many of whom have been toiling away […]

Making Change the New Norm

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It occurred to me in two conversations I had this morning that small change can create large change, but how exactly does that happen? My first conversation was a phone call with George Overholser, from the Nonprofit Finance Fund and a leading thinker around new kinds of capital for nonprofit organizations.  I was getting some […]

Capital for Social Entrepreneurs

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I have written before about the importance of creating a social capital market in order to truly make social innovation possible.  A social capital market provides the same depth and breadth of financial vehicles to social entrepreneurs (both nonprofit and for profit) that traditional businesses enjoy.  This means that financial vehicles such as debt, growth […]

The Social Capital Markets Conference

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In the emerging field of social innovation there are a plethora of conferences here and abroad.  Some are better than others.  One that I am particularly looking forward to is September’s Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco.  This is only the second year of the conference, which brings together social investors, foundations, social entrepreneurs, […]