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Moving Past Darkness Into Light

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This was a really hard week. The horror of the Boston Marathon and the explosion in West, Texas. I think we all feel horrified, vulnerable, shocked. But two things this week made me see the hope beyond the sometimes dark elements of life. First was comedian and actor Patton Oswalt’s beautiful Facebook post about the […]

Can Slow Money Launch an Austin Social Capital Market?

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As I have written before, despite being the 3rd largest venture capital city in the country, Austin is slow to climb on the emerging social capital market bandwagon. Tremendous wealth and entrepreneurial expertise exist here, but there isn’t a lot of energy around creating a continuum of capital for social entrepreneurs. Perhaps that is about […]

What is Social Innovation?

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It’s a big buzz word right now, but what does it mean? Is it just a bunch of hype? Social innovation is a whole group of big, ambitious, new ideas and models for solving social problems. Social innovation is about changing institutions, organizations, approaches, systems in fundamental ways so that we can fix the many […]