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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 investments versus impact investing in social themes
The second edition of the LH Forum for Positive Economy took place in Le Havre, France, from 25-27 September. It had over 4,000 enrolments, of which some 1,400 were from local students. This was a huge …
Paradox or creative tension? The role of foundations in delivering public benefit
The opening plenary set the bar high for this year’s Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) conference. The session featured stirring, insightful and complementary contributions on the changing role of foundations from Theo Sowa, Julian Corner …
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 …
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 …
GSBI Accelerator program: Shucking the Husk
It turned out to be both a blessing and a challenge to have a good reputation coming in to the GSBI® Accelerator program at Santa Clara University. I had attended this program in 2009, when …
Coming this week: focus on the GSBI Accelerator program
Last month in Silicon Valley, California, a dozen social entrepreneurs from countries including India, Mexico, Kenya and Ghana came to Santa Clara University’s campus as part of a 10-month mentoring and training program, the GSBI® …
Connecting two resources: social investments and social work
‘We are living in a world that is different from what we dream. Recently, we reached our limit and lots of us run to the streets to complain because we cannot stand the current situation …
Yearning for earnings: what´s behind the hunger for social businesses?
In the hip barn of the twenty something owners of a horse-powered winegrowers on the coast of Maine, the rafters echoed with the buzz of wealthy young people who got together because they were excited …
