Forbes.com did a story recently, The New Activist Givers, (06-01-07) about the trend in activism and giving. The article highlighted the work of The Wealth & Giving Forum, Venture PhilanthropyPartners and Acumen Fund.

Who are these other in-your-face crowd? “These young activists are mostly coming up through the high-finance and tech industries. They […]

Paul Bloom, Senior Research Scholar of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke Universiy, recently wrote a paper for CasePlace titled: How Marketing Thinking Can Help Social Entrepreneurs

He makes the point that although there has yet to be a lot of research done on marketing and social entrepreuners much of the current […]

Future of Social Enterprise – What’s on the Funder’s Mind

That was the topic for a panel I participated at the 2006 Net Impact Conference in Chicago. It was an honor to sit alongside Emily Bolton of REDF and Julia Novy-Hildesley of the Lemelson Foundation. This was the last panel of the day and […]

For the past three months we have been researching our potential pipeline of investments at Good Capital. The result of that research and of our fund development is narrowing the definition of the fund profile, the specific characteristics we are looking for in a potential investment. That process has been influenced by what we […]

Yesterday, I was having a very random conversation with a stranger. She asked me what I did and where I worked as we were walking the same direction. Very chatty. When I tell people the mission and the goal of Good Capital and my role it is received really well. […]

The R&D of the Good Capital Social Enterprise Expansion Capital Fund has put in me in conversations with potential investees and investors. There are big questions around how we are going to provide “equity like” investment in a non-profit. And there are a lot of questions around how we will exit the investment. At […]

There are so many organizations large and small providing services to the Social Enterprise space. How can we better work together and in turn be more effective to the community we serve? One organization, the Social Enterprise Group (SEG), wants to help these groups work together in a more strategic and efficient way. […]

Last week, I spent a few days in Minneapolis/St. Paul to explore the investor environment, social enterprise investment opportunities and to field test some of the ideas we are working on at Good Capital. The Twin Cities is a philanthropic kind of town. Some of that is due in part to Joe Selvaggio’s 1% […]

In May 2006 Brody Weiser and Burns, a non-profit consulting firm and social enterprise catalyst, hosted a Convening of investors and interested parties interested in the economic development of the Appalachia area. The convening discussed a white paper that among other objectives outlined six key success factors for a non-profit social enterprise.

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I am researching the activity of social enterprises and funders for the Social Enterprise fund at Good Capital. As a native of Missouri and a recent transplant to San Francisco I am uniquely interested in the activity in the “fly over states”. I know there are some amazing organizations out there but where […]