Unfortunately I got an e-mail recently from James at Dvelo.org telling me that due to SEC regulations on delivering returns on investments in the manner that they had attempted required complicated registration as a “brokerage”. Hopefully we can get a new interview with James explaining the situation, and how they have responded! 00:00 – 00:51 [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 16th: New Approaches to New Markets: How C.K. Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid Strategies Are Paying Off (via Knowledge@Wharton) – C.K. Prahalad’s book, The Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid, has been one of the most coveted books for those of us advocating business investment in BoP markets. [...]

Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder of Acumen Fund, and in this TED Talk (which I really enjoyed!) she shares her experiences that led her to found Acumen and some of the lessons she has learned along the way.

Here’s your Daily Brief for September 14th: Is Social Enterprise Over-Hyped? (via SocialEarth) – Mike poses an interesting question regarding the hype that surrounds the social enterprise space, and asks where we really are in terms of sector development. He correlates the hype that surrounded the IT movement to that which currently surrounds the social [...]

The following is a cross-post from the International Transparency Solutions Blog Also, visit The Chronicle of Philanthropy for more great audio interviews! Charity Navigator is a non-profit watchdog that ranks 5,000+ of the top US charities in order to give donors and investors the tools they need to decide where to invest their money. Transparency [...]

The following is a cross-post from the International Transparency Solutions Blog: I had a great conversation last week with Karim Harji, a Kenyan from Mombassa who now lives in Toronto doing social investment. We got on the topic of social investments and metrics vs. storytelling. Karim made the point that the nonprofit sector has relied [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 10th: There is a real shift taking place in our world today: a shift toward sustainable, meaning-driven innovation. This shift, however, is without doubt across a generational divide. Our generation, the younger generation, is fed up with the irresponsible short-term driven actions of the 20th century. We continue to [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 5th: Paul Farmer out for USAID? (via Foreign Policy) – It appears as if Paul Farmer, the man recently rumored to be appointed head of USAID, is no longer in the running. The culprit seems to be the daunting vetting process itself, including a form requiring the candidate to [...]