Grants vs. Investments: How To Decide Which Is Best?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Session Description
Progress against today’s global challenges requires mobilisation of significant capital. Traditional grant-based models are coming into question in an environment of constrained philanthropy and government funding. Impact investing represents a growing marketplace, but looks unattainable to many social entrepreneurs. This panel will take an in-depth lookat the decisions facing social entrepreneurs when asking “Am investible? And do I want to be?”
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, March 31, 2011
BST
Speakers
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Executive Director, Aravind Eye Care System
Thulasiraj Ravilla is Executive Director of LAICO, Aravind Eye Care System, India. He is a Schwab Fellow and earned his MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has served as South East Asia’s regional chair for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness; is founder and…
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Managing Director, shærpa
Pieter Oostlander was educated as a Registered Accountant (CPA) and worked for eight years in the audit profession with PwC and Deloitte, and for 15 years in operational financial with ASM, Peek Traffic and Rigda Group. In 2004 he joined Noaber Foundation as Managing Director, responsible for…
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CEO, Den Sociale Kapitalfond
Lars Jannick Johansen is CEO and Board Member of Den Sociale Kapitalfond (The Social Capital Fund) - Denmark's first social venture fund and accelerator, investing capital and competencies in social entrepreneurs and growth companies improving opportunities for marginalized groups in…
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Advisor, Southern Bancorporation & Chair, Homeless Children's Playtime Project board, Individual
Jan Piercy is broadly engaged in economic inclusion, impact investing and social entrepreneurship fields, having served as Senior Advisor to Enclude, Senior Vice President of ShoreBank Corporation, and as USED on the World Bank & International Finance Corporation boards during the Clinton…
