The Skoll Foundation’s Jill Finlayson, who’s the marketing manager for Social Edge, our community website, led a panel discussion at the Social Capital Market’s conference - SOCAP09 - aimed at identifying  the barriers to greater efficiency in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem and how we might use technology to address the challenges.  She’s put up an [...]

SOCAP09 came with the anticipation, fire and fury of a movement in the making. Easily a thousand investors, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, intermediaries, and service providers gathered in the main and parallel side events built around the mother ship. For this disparate group – from former investment bankers sporting Hermes ties to tattooed volunteers who paid for [...]

The Skoll family will be well represented at the Social Capital Markets 2009 conference in San Francisco next week.  Dan Crisafulli, who heads up ecosystem investments and partnerships at the Skoll Foundation, will be speaking on a panel on forecasting markets, essentially blue-sky thinking about the future of social capital markets - trends to watch [...]

The second day of the Social Capital Market Conference in San Francisco offered a smorgasbord of options for folks interested in finance in the social sector.  With ten parallel session tracks, there was almost too much choice.  Katherine Fulton of the Monitor Institute kicked the day off with a thought-provoking keynote.  She argued that social [...]

Yesterday was day one of the Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco - SOCAP ‘08.  They were anticipating around 300 attendees and, instead, got double that.  While the number made for some tight sessions, it’s a powerful sign of interest in the space.  The subtitle of the conference gives the basic focus:  “the intersection [...]