I winced slightly during the opening session of SOCAP and wondered if I’d wandered into another variation of dealing with white man’s guilt. Phrases like “changed forever”, “southeast Asia”, “compelled to do something”, and “Peace Corps” sounded like the clichés of philanthropy and of international development. I thought, perhaps, that we were here to do something new, with a new perspective, and that we’d traveled beyond some of these sentiments.
Like my colleagues who have written their reflections on SOCAP, I gleaned a massive amount of information on the spaces within social entrepreneurship and impact investing. I do this work because I love the newness and the possibility. I love the build. While much of their reflection has landed on the financial and investing side, there is room for the perspective from a cultural studies side, from critical theory to reflect on the dynamics of what we are building.
The latest update of the Green Transition Scoreboard (GTS) was recently released, indicating that the private sector has invested over $2.4 trillion in green companies and technologies since 2007.
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