SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of April 30, 2012.
Late last month, running in parallel to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, OxfordJam’12 took place in the Old Fire Station, a charity and social enterprise in the heart of Oxford. The short film from the event features highlights from the many sessions, conversations, and good times that were had.
If you’re trying to launch your social venture, you’re probably well aware that it can be tough to find “proving capital” – funding to get you from pilot to proof of concept.
We started Global Catalyst Initiative to help fill this gap. We work with early-stage social ventures to help them get from pilot to proof of concept through funding and support. This January, we finished our second round of funding.
We’re always learning, and after our second round, we noticed some trends that put successful applicants over the top. Here are 5 lessons that help guide our funding process that might be helpful for other early-stage social ventures looking for funding.
Yesterday, I posted Part I of my interview with Ben Thornley, Director of Insight – Pacific Community Ventures’ (PCV) thought leadership practice in high-impact investing. In Part II of this series, Ben discusses his views on the relevance of Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit to countries outside the US and weighs in on the UK’s Social Value Bill.
Pakistan has been at the top of everyone’s list these days, and not in a good way. We’ve been labeled the most dangerous country in the world for journalists and make a consistent appearance on the Failed States Index.
These criticisms and list positions are not without merit; Pakistan’s roses are more the thorny than plain variety. But to brand it as such would also be one-dimensional and short-sighted. You don’t hear too much about Pakistan’s untapped entrepreneurial potential.
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