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The Report The latest must-read report on impact investing suggests the field needs to invest more philanthropy into building a market for early-stage entrepreneurship. Philanthropic investors should listen. From Blueprint to Scale: The Role of Philanthropy in Impact Investing, written … Continue reading
If you are like many people, you are new to impact investing, have a mild notion of what it is, and believe that it could be important, maybe even revolutionary. But this notion is tempered by massive confusion surrounding the … Continue reading
Antony Bugg-Levine Last week I sat on a panel at Columbia Business School’s Social Enterprise Conference moderated by Antony Bugg-Levine. As some may know, Antony’s influence on the creation of the impact investing industry has been massive. In his capacity … Continue reading
Next week, over a thousand people will descend on Fort Hood in San Francisco for Social Capital Markets or SoCap. The conference, in its fourth year, is a paean to the sustainable capitalism movement and will be filled with the kind of people who are, relative to the rest of the populations, off-the-charts optimistic. Continue reading
Outside Silicon Valley, the world is not so enthusiastic about entrepreneurship. In Central America, where we work, the word has a stigma. Continue reading
We have been working with entrepreneurs in Nicaragua since 2005. The first entrepreneur we worked with was a man named Jaime Salazar. Everybody loved Jaime and everybody loved his dream – to build a world-class oyster farm off the coast … Continue reading
Agora’s Impact Investor Conference July 12-15 – Connecting capital with the best opportunities for impact in Central America. Get to know the companies that will define impact entrepreneurship in the region. Continue reading
The world needs more impact entrepreneurs. The question then is how to bring this situation to be? It seems like a very daunting task — and it is. (And it’s one reason we have adopted the classic Ernest Shackleton advert … Continue reading
As I’ve said before, we need as many entrepreneurs and concerned citizens to step up as possible. We need more entrepreneurs who can imagine the future and make it happen. We need more concerned citizens who feel obligated to make … Continue reading
What is the hardest kind of capital for entrepreneurs to find in the developing world? A strong argument can be made that it’s social capital – basically a feeling of trust, community, and mutually agreed upon norms and expectations that … Continue reading
It’s working. We just wrapped up our first Agora Entrepreneur retreat and I couldn’t be more pleased exhilarated, really. From our cabins we could see in the near distance the bay of San Juan del Sur, where Vanderbilt’s ships used … Continue reading
If you are reading this post, chances are you already know we humans are facing many challenges right now. Approximately 1.5 billion people living in poverty; lack of rights and opportunities, especially for women; a planetary eco-system strained to the … Continue reading
This blog, which we are re-launching today, is about people who do things – and how can we help them. Our focus is on a particular type of person — impact entrepreneurs — and their journey. Continue reading
The Role of Philanthropy in Impact Investing Part 2: Silicon Valley Without Stanford
Lack of Pipeline is Impact Investing’s Biggest Problem The conversation surrounding the recent Monitor report (From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing) focuses on the role of philanthropy in supporting game-changing business models that might not … Continue reading →