News stories move in cycles. Microfinance, perhaps culminating in Muhammad Yunus receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has been on a relentless up cycle. But because the information about its impact is still anecdotal and not supported by statistical studies, it is subject to this kind of reverse spin in a recent Forbes article.

Looked at through an innovation lens, Grameen Bank represents one of the earliest examples of a powerful form of business innovation that John Hegel, a business innovation guru is tracking.

Being picked up as an example of what’s really changing in the world by a prominent futurist/author/speaker/consultant is one of the most powerful ways an idea […]

An episode in which our hero, the cardigan clad social entrepreneur and MacArthur genius grant recipient Jim Fruchterman encounters the bad side of Washington trying to restrict access to information by the blind.

Talking to the folks at Good Magazine next week about a possible relationship. The unashamed, uncynical use of the word good is rising, I think. Here’s a blog post where a popularizing business strategy author talks about the hot new management trend of thinking deeply about sustainability when examining your operations and sales strategy, with […]

Cheryl Dahle’s new roster of the winners of Fast Company’s Social Capitalist awards is on the newstands and online. A great group, many of whom we volunteers know well at xigi, and some of whom are solid prospects for our social enterprise fund portfolio at GoodCap.

This Social Fusion event looks pretty cool; a neat group of partners, as well: “What do the leaders behind a multi-billion $ private equity fund, the globe’s most prestigious social entrepreneurial foundation, and a dot.com millionaire-turned-carbon cowboy…have in common? They are on the leading edge of unleashing the positive power of business and capital […]

Met with Bharat Kakkad of Synapse Market Access Fund and and John Audley of Synapse’s parent organization, Global Fairness Initiative yesterday. They are looking to create an international fund that helps grass roots producers by building trading networks that connect businesses in the global south, rather than routing the flow of capital and capacity […]

It is refreshing to have found a community of talented and innovative individuals who desire social change.  I look forward to our journey of creating and developing sustainable solutions for our global problems. 

Consider this:

Professionals at SRI in the Rockies meet year after year with out-of-the-box speakers like Hazel Henderson, David Korten, Jane Goodall, Randy Hayes, etc. all speaking about their visions for a blueprint of a “new economy” built on true restorative business practices and true sustainability.

This year David Korten spoke very clearly about the limitations of […]

New Yorker story on microfinance provides fascinating window into the mind of Pierre Omidyar and his investment/granting philosophy; a topic that’s of high interest for people in the social capital market. You get a real sense of his ideology, what he’s trying to prove, his bedrock belief in Adam Smith and e-Bay as a […]