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Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Financing the Growth of Operations

Financing the growth of operations to achieve major scale is undoubtedly the biggest challenge facing social entrepreneurship. This panel discussion explores the current challenges and constraints in mobilizing capital flow to compelling social enterprises. Experts cover a range of strategies and channels available to social entrepreneurs for financing growth plans, including emerging alternatives to create new asset classes (hybrid, for-profit, and for-benefit models).

Business

Texting It In

By Jennifer Roberts

A free, open-source software package lets health care workers in developing countries better fight disease.

Social Innovations

The New Frontier

By Jennifer Roberts

LeapFrog Investments will bring better insurance to more of the world's poor.

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Eyeing Talent

By Corey Harris

VisionSpring picks promising social entrepreneurs to restore the eyesight of poor people.

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In the Black with BRAC

By Kim Jonker 15

Serving more than 110 million people per year, BRAC is the largest nonprofit in the world. Yet it doesn't receive the most charitable donations. Instead, BRAC's social enterprises generate 80 percent of the organization's annual budget. These revenues have allowed the organization to develop, test, and replicate some of the world's most innovative antipoverty programs.

Let’s Share

By Jennifer Roberts

A new evaluation tool allows donors and investors to track their investments and compare their data to those of organizations doing similar work.

GreenNote Friends

By Jennifer Roberts

GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.

Podcast

Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Assessing Impact

In considering the effectiveness of your social enterprise, are you making a difference? Do you add value to your constituents' lives? Are you as effective as possible per dollar output? In this panel discussion at the 2008 Skoll World Forum, talented experts talk about the challenges of social enterprises and how metrics can impact organizational learning and innovation, and lead the more effective use of resources.