Social Capital Markets

Faltazi : Eco-designers Sentir, apprendre, penser, réaliser « Nous avons désormais deux activités bien distinctes. La première est classique puisqu’elle consiste à répondre à des demandes d’industriels, notamment de l’électroménager, en vue de produire de nouvelles gammes d’appareils. Notre seconde activité l’est moins. Elle est militante et nous a conduits à vouloir mettre nos compétences au service d’une vision durable et soutenable des processus de consommation et d’organisation de la ville.

About Us We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Learn more about how it works. Since Kiva was founded in 2005: 1,299,199 Kiva lenders $714,627,450in loans 98.72% repayment rate Le crowdfunding s'attaque à la promotion immobilière Knowledge@Wharton – Dan Miller, vous êtes co-fondateur et président de Fundrise, une entreprise de crowdsourcing spécialisée dans l’immobilier. Il s’agit d’une idée relativement nouvelle. Pouvez-vous nous dire comment cela fonctionne et comment vous vous êtes engagé dans cette voie? Dan Miller – Mon frère et moi avons lancé Fundrise en 2010. Au départ, nous avons développé cette plateforme pour financer nos propres opérations immobilières, l’achat et le développement de biens à Washington, D.C. Nous avons créé la plateforme pour élargir le cercle de nos co-investisseurs, en permettant à n’importe qui d’investir, à partir de 100 dollars.

empowering creatives / My idea for classy and eco- friendly flooring,hopefully harvested organically (without the use of pesticides) : is using bamboo bricks. They do exist and are probably fairly easy to installfor the right expert. Eco friendly materials are highly advantageous for companies that wish to lower their carbon footprintand up their game from an economicand environmental standpoint. This type of flooring could be very sturdy as well as play a part increating a safe alternative to cement and steel buildings which may buckle under the pressure of an earthquake.

A Look Inside Pipa, Brazil’s First Start-Up Incubator --This post is co-written by Dhaval Chadha, a founding partner at Cria, an innovation consultancy and corporate venture incubator, and one of the cofounders of Pipa. Pipa (Portuguese for “kite”) is an incubator, or to be more specific an accelerator, focused on supporting entrepreneurs looking to create long-term sustainable value through business. We aim to support these entrepreneurs in their quest to create positive social, environmental and financial impact, something Brazil is engaging with more and more. While we strongly believe current paradigms of business and capitalism are losing relevance in the context of rising populations, inequality, environmental degradation and exponentially advancing technology, we also believe that business is one of the best forms of creating lasting social impact. This is because it is self-sustaining and thereby scalable. The partners at the four companies were already friends and sporadically worked on projects together.

How Social Entrepreneurs Who Need Money Can Get Noticed “Do good” business owners seeking funding should target investors looking to put their money to work to make positive social or environmental change. But how to get on their radar? One new way to make your company known to these "social investors" is through a new online searchable database for social entrepreneurs. A Social Sector Powered By Information 02 Oct, 2012 Welcome to the Markets for Good conversation! We hope that this site will serve as the “virtual water cooler” for a sustained, thoughtful conversation about what is needed to improve the social sector’s ability to generate, share, and use information. This conversation encompasses the spectrum of capital and enterprises devoted to social good, from philanthropy to impact investing. We intend to chronicle developments and advancements – from both collaborating organizations and adjacent efforts – to keep all who are interested in these issues informed and engaged. We want to surface ideas and insights about what’s needed in terms of products, technology, support, behavior changes, and resources.

Goteo.org Crowdfunding the commons <div id="noscript">Please enable JavaScript</div> Goteo.org News World Business Council for Sustainable Development Understanding the business contribution to society The WBCSD Measuring Impact Framework, launched in 2008, was developed in collaboration with over 20 WBCSD member companies. It is designed to help companies understand their contribution to society and use this understanding to inform their operational and long-term investment decisions, and have better conversations with stakeholders. How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups? Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation unit. Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class ”Design for Unicef” in NYU’s ITP Program, is a global partner of Stanford’s New Product Design Innovation course, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia University on leveraging technology and design to improve international development. She previously wrote on TechCrunch about how the future of mobile lies in the developing world. All views are her own.

Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor  Learn about our approach We work with service providers to demonstrate and scale up successful models to improve services for low income consumers.  See the cities we work in Our implementation programme is currently focused in towns and cities in six countries. Crowdfunding the commons Crowdfunding + distributed collaboration Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, microtasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge, and open code. We support projects with social, cultural, scientific, educational, technological, or ecological objectives that generate new opportunities for the improvement of society and the enrichment of community goods and resources. Goteo adds collective returns to individual rewards