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 [...]
We are ready to pilot into 4 cities in the next three months. Join us! In order to prepare interested cities for listing, we are hosting a conference call informational session on May 17. This will help explain the key role of the City Champion team, and how to get started. It will also provide [...]
Guest post by Peter Korchnak.
ReVisioning Value 2010 attendee Megan Strand summarized her “mind-bending takeaways” from the conference on her InCouraged blog with the post titled “Disturbed”.
Then she asked me to offer my main takeaway from the conference. Even after posting my comment I still can’t decide whether I, too, should be disturbed, or whether I [...]
By Kristen Parrinello
David Williams, CEO of ShoreBank Pacific believes the social investment community has grown from a trickle to a river in the past decade and has a positive outlook of more growth to come. As a speaker at ReVisioning Value (ReVV), Dave provided vast insight into this change from the banking perspective. [...]
