Worth Repeating

“The Social Innovation Fund may be the signature philanthropic effort of the Obama era. And the competition is not among nonprofits applying for new money, but among foundations and other large intermediaries vying for the Administration's coveted seal of approval." -Rick Cohen, Blue Avocado

Moving Forward in Social Investment: A Community Banker’s Perspective

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. [...]

April 29th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: REVV 2010 Conference, Springboard News, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

ReVV 2010: Become part of a Change

Getting myself ready for my first blogging opportunity at ReVisioing Value Coneference (ReVV), Portland OR.  Writing in itself is a huge delight, and writing to root for social cause is like an icing on the cake!! Although I am slightly nervous, what makes this opportunity super exciting for me is the chance to be [...]

April 24th, 2010 | Category: REVV 2010 Conference, Springboard News, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

Just Ten Days Away

The ReVisioning Value 2010 conference is just ten days away.
Are you a non-profit, a student, a teacher, a small business owner, a community activist? Are you interested in the environment, social justice, economic justice, sustainability? Are you an investor curious about innovation and social entrepreneurship?
It is not to late to register. Come to learn, to [...]

April 16th, 2010 | Category: REVV 2010 Conference, Social Innovation Forums, Social Innovation Models, Springboard News, Uncategorized, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

What’s it like to not have enough water?

1.2 billion people already know. They live in areas of physical water scarcity.
What’s it like when the annual rains that have nourished your crops for generations don’t ever come?
The majority of the world’s rural poor know. They are smallholder farmers that
rely on rainfall for survival. They work with hand tools and are without [...]

March 22nd, 2010 | Category: ChangeXchange, Social Innovation Models, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

What is a Social Innovation Stock Exchange?

When you read the words “stock exchange” what images come to mind? I see white men in suits; tall buildings with lots of glass; the screaming and shouting of swarming bodies thrashing their hands in the air; computer screens; brightly lit numbers increasing and decreasing. People are making and losing thousands, even millions of dollars [...]

January 29th, 2010 | Category: ChangeXchange, REVV 2010 Conference, Springboard News, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment

MicroPlace VS Kiva

Social investing. By now, there are more players in this space than we will ever be able to keep track of. First, we have Yunus and Grameen Bank and the world thinks giving a little bit is suddenly the answer to everything. We become obsessed with the word “micro.” Then, we have Kiva, who allows you [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Category: ChangeXchange, Springboard News, Who are social innovators? | Leave a comment
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