The Miliken Institute is looking for candidates to fill its research positions including Emerging Domestic Markets (Code = CAPEDM), Development Finance, (CAPDF) Energy & Environmental Finance(CAPSAV), International Finance(CAPINT), and s Financial Innovations Laboratory Manager(CAPFIL).

Successful candidate will undertake research and analysis, prepare reports, and presentations independently as well as jointly with other research analyst and senior […]

Santa Clara University has a program that helps tech-savvy social innovators achieve social justice. The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) is exclusively for social entrepreneurs that have shown commitment to and success in applying technology “to address urgent human needs throughout the world.” The participants live and take classes together for two weeks, developing their […]

Good Capital, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment company, has appointed Marie Trexler as Chief Investment Officer. Ms. Trexler is an accomplished venture investor with more than a dozen years of domestic and international experience. She will lead Good Capital’s investment activities, including the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund LP targeted for $30 million.

Trexler comes to Good […]

C4 has a platform called MyC4 that allows individual investors and funds to invest directly in opportunities in Africa. Last week they posted an opportunity to bid on a loan for an entreprenuer’s road-side telephone booth service. Within an hour, without even an announcement, Hope Akumakama’s €150 request was filled. Tim Vang sees this instantaneous […]

He may not bend it like Beckham, but Rod Beckstrom, CEO/Author/Catalyst is building his brand around his book,The Starfish and the Spider and now newsletter, called The Beckstrom Startfish Report. Rod, a tech cashout who’s heavily involved in microfinance, has apparently decided that for this go round, the personal brand is higher than the product […]

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Sustainability advocates are harnessing the power of the web to help visualize their networks through mapping, says CSR Wire. Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel launched an ‘Eco-mmunity Map’ as an extension of the station’s online environmental forumfeaturing blogs, news and discussion. Fusing the popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace and LinkedIn with the […]

With increasing reports of scandal and inefficiency within the nonprofit sector - a sector which now accounts for 8.5% of our national income - it is no wonder that donors, Congress, and the IRS are applying ever greater scrutiny to the practice and governance of nonprofit organizations, says an article in On Philanthropy.

Bloomberg gets down […]

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Here is what we are doing: mapping the new nascent exchanges, composing a glossary and translation table of how they define value in other than monetary terms (the local exchange, the one in the uk, bovespa, the others on tim’s intermediary slide) […]

Civic Ventures is an innovative and influential national non-profit working to transform the aging of the population into a source of social renewal. They are seeking an associate director to provide day-to-day management of its national groundbreaking program, The Purpose Prize, which recognizes, invests in and brings attention to social innovators over 60. The position […]