Ag Faceoff: For-profit or Nonprofit, Which Wins the Social ROI Contest?
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Session Description
If you had $1 million to invest to improve outcomes for smallholder farmers, would you invest it as equity or make a grant? For-profit or nonprofit: which generates the higher social return on investment? Four expert practitioners will share their evidence and argue the case. They’ve made up their minds. Will they change yours? Let’s debate and then decide. Come ready to mix it up!
FORMAT: DEBATE
Time & Location
Time:
15:45 - 17:00, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
BST
Location:
SBS, Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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Speaker
Chief Investment Officer, Builders Asset Management
Alan Chang is Chief Investment Officer at Builders Asset Management, the investment arm of Builders Vision – a family office dedicated to promoting a healthy and humane planet. He previously served as Partner, Managing Director and Investment Committee Member at Capricorn Investment Group…
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $2 billion in loans to…
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Moderator
Special Advisor, Skoll Foundation
Richard Fahey served as Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation from 2004 to 2021, where he contributed to the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the…
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Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group
Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in…
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Speaker
Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s people living on $1-a-day are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who…
