What structures are currently in use for aggregating capital for impact investing? What legal and regulatory obstacles are limiting the structures available for attracting institutional and retail impact investors into these impact investment vehicles? How can we lower legal transaction costs and improve the suitability of these …
Curious to understand how Pay for Success initiatives work in addressing the issues that plague developing countries? This session will walk through the process of designing and implementing the first-ever Development Impact Bond, focused on increasing school enrollment and learning of girls in India, partnering the NGO …
Money, money, money. Donors are faced with a never-ending parade of worthy causes. We want to provide clean water! We are training leaders! On and on. While working to combat poverty, modern non-profits must also navigate the game-changing social and technological innovations affecting (and sometimes overwhelming) their …
Increasingly nonprofits, especially those with earned income, are wondering whether they could have a greater and more sustainable impact as a for-profit. Benefit corporations allow a social enterprise to keep their mission central to the organization, while allowing for a for-profit business model. The stability provided by …
There are hundreds of companies participating at SOCAP14 and each is likely to have its own path towards growth and sustainability. This highly interactive session will explore one hypothetical company’s path and some of the legal and financial pitfalls along the way. The session will begin with …
The social enterprise revolution in corporate law is helping social entrepreneurs looking for new structures to better embed their mission into their business venture. To date, benefit corporation legislation has been passed in 25 states (including California, effective on January 1, 2012 and Delaware, effective on August …
Venture and early growth impact investments are risky. Few, if any, portfolio investments offer the lottery ticket returns that allow one deal to make a fund. Creating a sustainable model for an impact fund requires understanding your returns, finding investors with expectations that you can deliver on, …
What makes you feel overwhelmed with joy, satisfaction, pleasure and makes you feel tingly inside? Amongst other things, it should be fundraising - creating long lasting impact on the many issues we face in our world. Change Heroes founder and CEO, Taylor Conroy speaks to his revolution …