Kartavya Jain, Springboard media team member
Successfully operated social ventures have added value to the community through increasing employment, generating social capital, promoting social value and justice, and pushing forward issues of sustainable development and green environment. One doesn’t have to be a business pundit to guess that any business generating such social and financial returns [...]
By Kristen Parrinello
Kevin Doyle Jones becomes more popular by the second as more social enterprises are increasingly ready for venture capital investment to build their capacity to scale. As a principal at Good Capital, Kevin sees the value in investing in triple bottom line companies. Good Capital just invested in their third company, Alter Eco. [...]
by Kristen Parrinello
Since Uncharitable was published in the beginning of 2008, Dan Pallotta’s speaking schedule has been quite full. The founder of Pallotta TeamWorks made waves in the social sector; some would say the waves are increasing to tsunami size. In an effort to “examine the arcane structure we inherited for non-profits,” Dan’s book unpeels [...]
Portland journalist and radio documentarian, Cherie Blackfeather, interviews three attendees of the April 26th ReVisioning Value Conference. Listen here: http://bit.ly/dcaoZ2
Twitter: @VoxPoppdx and @ReVisioningValu
Sonal Shah is speaking at the SoCap conference in California first week of Sept., and I will be there. She is “Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Before her appointment, she was working on defining Google.org’s global development strategy.” I will blog the event while [...]
A new voice from Africa suggests aid is not the answer. “As the global financial crisis unfolds, those least responsible—our world’s poor—will be most affected. Many have called upon President Obama to uphold his campaign commitment to double foreign assistance. But Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, challenges us to think again.” She claims aid is not [...]
