Expansion Finance For Social Impact

Thursday 2:00-3:00 March 26, 2009

Philanthropy has too often remained trapped in the ‘small is beautiful’ world of social innovation – while for-profit-investors have striven to avoid any taint of compromising returns for social impact. A growing set of trailblazers is mobilising significant pools of capital to deploy for social impact. In the process they are reinventing the way that philanthropic and for-profit capital is used for social and environmental benefit.

• John Goldstein, Managing Director, Imprint Capital Advisors
• George Overholser, Founder and Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners
• Jean-Philippe De Schrevel, Founder, Bamboo Finance/ Blue Orchard
• Ashish Karamchandani, CEO, Monitor Group