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- SCP at SoCap09 and GES
- on September 14th, 2009
Bill Young, President of Social Capital Partners, recently participated on panel discussions at two prominent international conferences.
The first, at the Social Capital Markets conference (SoCap09) in San Francisco, was a panel discussion on building successful social venture funds. The panel included Paul Richardson from renewal2 and Derek Gent from Vancity, and was moderated by Tim Draimin from Social Innovation Generation. From the description in the official program:
Building Successful Social Venture Funds: Sage Advice in Today's Context.
Social venture funds are an emerging asset class for financial institutions, fund managers, and philanthropists alike. Over the last decade, Canadians have quietly pioneered some of North america's foremost examples creating
the case for this intersection of money and meaning. Join veteran fund leaders from Vancity, Renewal Partners, and Social Capital Partners in a discussion of how to build successful funds and how that's changing in today's context.The second was the Global Economic Symposium in Germany, where Bill participated in a session on "The New Wave of Social Entrepreneurship". The group discussed new models for solving societal challenges through the principles and practice of social entrepreneurship.