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Launching the Social Progress Index

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date April 14, 2013
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“Visions without metrics are hallucinations”, said one speaker at this year’s Skoll World Forum, which hosted the launch of the beta version of the Social Progress Index on April 11th. The importance of rigorously measuring social impact is one of the key themes of our writing about philanthrocapitalism. That is why we have been enthusiastic supporters […]

Tags Harvard Business School, Human Development Index, Michael E Porter, MIT, Skoll World Forum, social progress, Social Progress Imperative, Social Progress Index, World Economic Forum

I’m a Social Entrepreneur Get Me Out of Here

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date April 17, 2010

London is currently full of stranded social entrepreneurs, prevented by volcanic ash from returning home from this week’s Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. This has prompted all sorts of initiatives to make their enforced ‘volcation’ in London more bearable. The Global Impact Investing Network, for instance, is holding its ‘First Annual GIIN Volcanic Ash Refugees […]

Tags Eyjafjallajokull, Global Impact Investing Network, Jeff Skoll, Kiva, Skoll World Forum, Volcanic ash