Listen to a podcast from the June 24th session Social Change--for Profit? Capital Shakers and Market Breakers included top social investors and entrepreneurs recognized for building unique and cutting edge progress in bridging business and social change; each shared breakthroughs as well as hard lessons learned from the trenches.
Panel leader was Amber Nystrom, Executive Director, Social Fusion, a business incubator for social entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area; panelists included leaders from Rubicon, Calvert and Microcredit Enterprises.
[from Stanford's Solution Magazine]
This engaged dialogue showcased the mainstreaming of social investing and the bridging of private sector and traditionally philanthropic and nonprofit sectors through so-called double bottom line investing. San Francisco is quickly assuming a global leadership role in social investing, where investors and philanthropists are achieving simultaneous financial as well as social benefit returns on investment.
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