Gerhard Pries, President of Sarona Asset Management, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

Africa stands out as one of the most exciting emerging markets for private equity investments. The second annual PEI Africa Forum provides a unique opportunity to hear from industry leading investors as they share their knowledge, experience and ideas to help improve your business.

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Gerhard Pries, President of Sarona Asset Management, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

Capricorn Managing Principal Ion Yadigaroglu and Managing Director Alan Chang share their perspectives with the GIIN community.

Gerhard Pries, President of Sarona Asset Management, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

Vineet Rai, the founder and CEO of Aavishkaar, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

The SEEP Network welcomes microenterprise practitioners, policy makers, and funders working in the small enterprise sector. The Annual Conference attracts a broad cross-section of key players including NGOs, private sector firms, foundations, investment funds, and bilateral agencies.

The 18th Annual Net Impact Conference will be hosted by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Programs will challenge attendees to envision their role in working towards a sustainable future, and bringing into focus the business solutions that can lead to social and environmental transformation over the next decade.

A four-day strategic and problem-solving retreat for nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, funders and social investors. This event aims to break down the silos of unproductive competition and go beyond the boundaries of conventional poverty alleviation.

Capricorn Managing Principal Ion Yadigaroglu and Managing Director Alan Chang share their perspectives with the GIIN community.

Dr. Charly Kleissner, a successful high-tech executive and co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

Capitalism is tackling the world's biggest social and environmental problems - and giving investors a new way to do well by doing good.

The Skoll World Forum, brings together figures from the social, academic, finance, corporate and policy sectors who are focused on accelerating, innovating and scaling solutions to some of the world's most pressing social issues.

The Forum is a joint venture between The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and The Skoll Foundation.

A new group is aiming to revolutionise the standard maths used to select investments for billions of dollars worth of assets by constructing a data engine that contrasts - and quantifies - the tangible social benefits of investing opportunities.

Scott Budde, Managing Director and head of the Social & Community Investment Department at TIAA-CREF shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

From event site:

"The 2nd Microfinance and Sustainable Development Summit will look at broadening the scope of impact investing within Microfinance AND outside the Microfinance community, to identify opportunities for investors looking for social good and financial returns."

Managing Director Marilou van Golstein Brouwers and Sustainable Trade Fund Manager Koert Jansen from Netherlands-based Triodos Investment Management share their experiences with the GIIN community.

An annual global networking and learning event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing in Europe.

The new industry of impact investment has the potential to become the best way of addressing global challenges

One exciting thread is a quest for a new way of thinking about markets and their intersection with social issues

The Take Action! Impact Investing Summit facilitates peer conversations among impact investing industry leaders. This summit focuses on those investments that deliver premium or market-rate returns.

This years topics include: entrepreneurship in low-income countries, internet innovation, and investment ventures in Africa, Asia, and L. America

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A Policy and Implementation Guide for Foundation

FSG Social Impact Advisors

Critical Concepts and Writings on Social Capital Market' Structure, Operation, and Innovation

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Making Business Work for the Poor

This symposium will spotlight the catalytic role affordable housing plays in creating more sustainable communities by surfacing the potential and actual social returns of such investments.

NYC Symposium for Social Change is one event in a nationwide series of forums held in conjunction with city and state economic development offices. These events aim to provide a collaborative platform in which diverse groups come together in a open dialogue to accelerate social change. Attended by social impact investors, venture capital firms, emerging businesses, foundations and organizations serving the community - held in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Florida.

Christa Velasquez, Director of Social Investments at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, shares her perspective with the GIIN community.

Carl Palmer, Co-founder of Beartooth Capital, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

Scott Budde, Managing Director and head of the Social & Community Investment Department at TIAA-CREF shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

While the rest of the market has seen losses, impact investing has outperformed.

With support of certification agencies and international financial institutions, this event, running alongside the XXII Latin American Coffee Symposium, will facilitate primarily one-on-one meetings between sustainable producer organizations and socially-oriented lending institutions.

This second annual conference in Bogota, Colombia is run by New Ventures Columbia, with support from the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and Fundascion Bavaria. The event will raise the challenges of impact investing in Colombia and Latin America, explore the role of key stakeholders in initiating and accelerating impact of businesses, and present investment examples.

For this year's conference titled New Partnerships for a Sustainable Recovery, the World Economic Forum will convene 400 from Latin America and other parts of the world in Cartagena, Colombia to build on the success of the 2009 World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Held in Grenada, Nicaragua and hosted by ANDE member organizations Agora Partnerships, Root Capital, and TechnoServe, the conference will have a mix of panels and interactive workshops on metrics, marketing, entrepreneur support strategies, deal sourcing, portfolio management training, and partnership development.

Social Venture Capital/Social Enterprise Conference, Miami-2010 is a convening of hundreds of top social enterprise/financial leaders and organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the state of Florida - in addition to organizations worldwide which have an interest in expanding to the region.

Gerhard Pries, President of Sarona Asset Management, shares his perspective with the GIIN community.

The Sankalp 2010 Awards and Investment Forum is a second annual Intellecap event committed to catalyzing entrepreneurship in the social enterprise space. Sankalp actively facilitates collaboration between established and budding entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and sector stakeholders interested in contributing effectively towards this fledgling yet fast-growing industry. Sankalp is organized by Intellecap, a an India-based firm specializing in providing innovative business solutions that help scale profitable and sustainable enterprises dedicated to social and environmental change.

One exciting thread is a quest for a new way of thinking about markets and their intersection with social issues

A Monitor Inclusive Markets Report

Britain's government tries a new way to finance social spending