Events

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NeighborWorks® is hosting a symposium, "A New Era in Affordable Housing: Investing for Impact in Sustainable Communities," Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. The invitation-only symposium will bring together leaders from the fields of impact investment, sustainable community design, and affordable housing to explore how to expand resources for affordable housing in sustainable communities. The goal is to both build bridges between these fields and create the opportunity for new insights on how to make housing more attractive to triple bottom line investors. Read more...

Sara Olsen will present in the Socially and Environmentally Responsible Banking and Business curriculum, a part of the OneCalifornia Summer Internship program.

OneCal offers a 6-week internship in which interns work on OneCal Foundation and Bank projects, as well as participate in a curriculum that includes presentations from many inspiring leaders in community-focused and triple-bottom-line business and finance. Read more...

Learn SROI Analysis in 2 Days.

SVT has teamed with The SROI Network to present "How to Measure the Social Impact of Your Organization." You will be constructing compelling SROI reports on your organization's projects within the space of 2 days.

Day 1 is a comprehensive introduction to SROI, in which you will learn by conducting an SROI analysis for one of your own projects. Read more...

Top competitors from around the world are gathering to pitch their businesses. Investors, funders, academics and students are invited come see the cutting edge, join the debate, and learn how those in different sectors around the world approach maximum positive impact.

SVT's Sara Olsen will moderate the judges' deliberation for the best Social Impact Assessment Friday morning April 23 from 8:30-1:30, followed by a Symposium featuring discussions on measuring impact and creating impact in different industry sectors and world regions.

"Since 1992, Investors' Circle has been connecting mission-driven entrepreneurs and socially-minded investors working to create a sustainable future. [Investors' Cirle's] conferences bring together the biggest names in social enterprise for three days of deal-making, networking, and thought leadership."

Sara Olsen, SVT Founding Partner and a co-founder of the Global Social Venture Competition, will be serving as a judge at the 2010 GSVC Southeast Asia Regional Competition, hosted by Thammasat Business School.

"[The] IMBA, Thammasat Business School organized the first GSVC in Southeast Asia in Thailand in 2007 and seeks to build the GSVC-SEA into regional community of thought-leaders, educators, students, investors and entrepreneurs to overcome challenges faced by social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia and the Oceania."

From Ashoka Youth Venture's Open House invitation:

"Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people as they start their own sustainable social ventures, connecting them into a powerful global network.

At our VIP Open House Reception on Feb. 27th from 3-6 PM, you can meet some of the young changemakers in our first Bay Area program. Read more...

There is more and more interest in measuring and valuing the impact of organisations on society. The Measuring Social Value Project is hosting a conference where third sector organisations, commissioners and investors will come together to share experiences of how Social Return on Investment (SROI) – one of the most exciting innovations in this field – is being used. The day will be built around plenary speakers from government, social investment, commissioning and the third sector; small group discussions on issues relating to SROI; and lots of opportunities for networking. Read more...

Join us as we convene leading experts from the academic, non-profit, and for-profit fields to present, debate, and discuss new knowledge, theories and strategies around measuring social impact and the social capital market. In addition to our academic conference and in the tradition of our previous conferences, our one day practitioner conference will offer hands-on instruction and use-it-now solutions for social entrepreneurs seeking to better measure their impact related to the growing marketplace of impact investing. Read more...

The 20th Anniversary 2009 SRI in the Rockies Conference is October 25–28, 2009 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona.

SRI in the Rockies is billed as "the premier annual gathering of investment professionals and related organizations who work to direct the flow of investment capital in transformative ways"; it offers many opportunities to meet and learn from passionate, creative people from all corners of the sustainable and responsible investment industry in the United States and around the world. Read more...

The Opportunity Collaboration is a four-day, purpose-driven networking and problem solving offsite commencing on World Poverty Day (October 17, 2009). The co-conveners are the Ashoka, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Global Philanthropy Forum, Social Venture Network, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Stanford Center for Social Innovation), Women Donors Network, Worldways Social Marketing and Jonathan C. Lewis (CEO, MicroCredit Enterprises). Read more...