Like the clean tech market before it, the social capital market is starting to emerge and some of the same dynamics are starting to emerge. New money has come into the room. New money has come into the room and the definitions are changing, become more clear,and easy for newcomers to engage with. Foundations,development and government agency funders and new mission focused social venture funds are all learning to cooperate on specific projects and investments. People who define their impact through thelens of as carefully worked out theory of change and people who understand return on investment with the third dimension of impact added are learning how to speak each others language, or at least create workable translations via the practical Rosetta Stone of a new kind of hybrid investment projects.
More money is starting to flow toward good things, more quickly, more easily and at an accelerated rate.
The social capital market is emerging, and as Wall Street did under the Buttonwood Tree and the Dutch Bourse did in coffee shops in Amsterdam, the market is convening through conversations around value in order to get new things done.
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BY Kevin Jones
ON August 11, 2008 07:28 PM
Like the clean tech market before it, the social capital market is starting to emerge and some of the same dynamics are starting to emerge. New money has come into the room. New money has come into the room and the definitions are changing, become more clear,and easy for newcomers to engage with. Foundations,development and government agency funders and new mission focused social venture funds are all learning to cooperate on specific projects and investments. People who define their impact through thelens of as carefully worked out theory of change and people who understand return on investment with the third dimension of impact added are learning how to speak each others language, or at least create workable translations via the practical Rosetta Stone of a new kind of hybrid investment projects.
More money is starting to flow toward good things, more quickly, more easily and at an accelerated rate.
The social capital market is emerging, and as Wall Street did under the Buttonwood Tree and the Dutch Bourse did in coffee shops in Amsterdam, the market is convening through conversations around value in order to get new things done.