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International Women’s Day: ‘If you care about social impact, you should not be ignoring African women’
At the age of 29, Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes founded one of the few women-owned investment companies in Africa. With women in Africa recieving only a tiny amount of investment money, yet outperforming men on stock exchanges, …
Social enterprise – the true legacy of Guo Mei Mei?
In 2011, philanthropy in China was rocked by a series of scandals, most notably that of Guo Mei Mei, a young woman whose parading of a ‘bling’ lifestyle while apparently associated with a highly respected …
Investment of human capital: the gift that keeps giving
A £9 billion investment made for a triumphant Olympics last year. Yet how much did it really touch the poorest in the Olympic boroughs? A year or so on from the Olympics, and I’m visiting …
Brazilian Philanthropy Forum 2013: everything is in motion in Brazil
Held on 24 October in São Paulo by IDIS (Institute for the Development of Social Investment) in partnership with the Global Philanthropy Forum, the 2nd Brazilian Philanthropy Forum was an exciting and overwhelming event, gathering …
Good (and not so good?)
Huzzah to Brad Smith for this post on the Brave New World of Good. Stop. Go read it. Then come back here. (Please) Brad does an important job of describing the new ‘sandbox’ of good. The tag …
Accelerating the accelerators: SoCap pre-event focuses on accelerating impact
SoCap2013 brought together 1,600 of the world’s keenest and most inspirational social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and social investors for a week of ideas sharing and deal making. Founded in San Francisco, SoCap is an exploration …
SOCAP: a rendezvous in the social space
A gamut of young – but nonetheless experienced – innovative minds surrounded the recent SOCAP 13 conference, in the breathtaking waterfront setting of Fort Mason, San Francisco. A plethora of investor-investee jargons were used, ideas …
GSBI Accelerator program: Vanity metrics and the difference between finding ‘fit’ and finding scale
For the final part of our series of articles focusing on the GSBI® Accelerator program, we are publishing an interview in which GBSI talked with Mark Straub and Aparna Surendra from Khosla Impact. GSBI: The …
GSBI Accelerator program: Learning to love ‘the McDonald’s of diabetes’
Even the most experienced Silicon Valley mentors have something to learn from social entrepreneurs building businesses in remote parts of the world. I think that’s why we keep coming back. The 2013 GSBI® Accelerator …
The SOCAP diary
A chance meeting on a panel with Kevin Jones, founder of SOCAP, meant not only that I got invited to attend SOCAP but also that I was asked to join Kevin at the plenary session …
