Title: Growth Finance for Social Entrepreneurs

Date: March 28, 2008

Description: Financing the growth of operations to achieve major scale is without a doubt the biggest challenge facing social entrepreneurs. Not only are larger amounts of capital hard to obtain, but the funding available frequently neglects the need to build the core capacity of the organization – and can result in pressures that dilute the organization’s focus on maximizing social impact.  This panel explores a range of methods and strategies available to social entrepreneurs for financing their growth plans, including emerging ways to create new asset classes (including hybrid, for-profit, and for-benefit models); and cutting-edge intermediaries supporting social entrepreneurs’ financing efforts. And a seasoned social entrepreneur will be on hand to share experiences on the ground in obtaining major funding from both grant- and investor sources.

Panel:

• Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
• Mark Campanale, Director, London Bridge Capital Limited
• Charles T. Harris III, Executive Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners
• Maximilian Martin, Ph.D., Global Head, UBS Philanthropy Services, Switzerland

Coverage of this session:

• Blogs
• Video

Also at the Skoll World Forum:

• Hybrid and For-Profit Business Models

• Innovation and Change in Government Culture

• Replication and Scale

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