Social Capital Markets 2008 October 13-16 2008
Social Capital Markets 2008 (SoCap08) is a new event designed to bring together all of the people and organizations with a similar deep passion to change the world through sustainable businesses. http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/wordpress/
Why is SoCap08 so important? We’re at the cusp of a massive sea-change in the ways that businesses can impact global and local problems. In the past, startup profit-motivated businesses were funded by risk capital, and socially-focused organizations were supported by philanthropy. The profit-oriented were rarely allowed to let a social mission intrude, and the socially-oriented were discouraged from building sustainable businesses. But a new breed of entrepreneurs – and a new mentality of those who fund them – is changing the landscape of business, investing and philanthropy.