How far can ‘creative’ philanthropy support social innovation to help address some of the major challenges confronting global society today? This panel discussion explores how philanthropy is developing, opportunities to maximise impact, how philanthropic institutions are approaching mission- related investment and the challenges for non-profits trying to secure investment capital.
Session Description
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09:00 - 11:00, Thursday, March 29, 2007 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerManaging Director, FSG, FSG, Inc.Mark R. Kramer Founder, Kramer Impact Capital Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, FSG Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Mark Kramer is a leading researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on philanthropy, business strategies for social impact, and impact investing. He is best known as the…
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SpeakerDirector, Center for Civil Society Studies at The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy StudiesLester M. Salamon is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. Salamon has written or edited over 20 books in addition to hundreds of articles, monographs and chapters that have…
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SpeakerFounder and Director , UCLA Center for Civil SocietyHelmut K. Anheier is an academic currently serving as Dean of the Hertie School of Governance. His research interests include methodological questions of sociological research with different units of analysis, organizational theory and the interaction of globalisation and civil society more broadly…
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SpeakerProfessor of Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social EntrepreneurshipAlex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford. He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…