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Breakout Session: Scaling Impact Enterprises
Creating energy from landfills, connecting women-led coffee cooperatives with international buyers, verifying medications by mobile phone. The audacious ideas of social entrepreneurs can change the world, but critical barriers often inhibit these ideas from getting off the ground. While social entrepreneurs confront challenges typical for most entrepreneurs—such as access to capital, markets, and talent—by virtue of their business model they face added obstacles. Already expected to deliver on ambitious social and environmental returns in addition to financial returns, they also contend with greater institutional investor skepticism and appeasing a wider array of stakeholders. Social enterprises have nonetheless experienced significant growth, with traditional and impact investors committing more than $10 billion to these companies over the last four years—tripling their investments.
In this session, successful social entrepreneurs from around the world will share challenges from their work, as well as opportunities they see to achieve greater impact by scaling impact enterprises. Leaders from the private, public, and civil society sectors will also discuss how CGI members can:
• Design innovative approaches for impact enterprise talent recruitment, development, and retention.
• Define, measure, and communicate the social and environmental impact of social enterprises.
• Incorporate impact enterprises into their supply chains.
• Scale programs that support women and minority-owned enterprises.
MODERATOR:
Sallie Krawcheck, Co-Founder and CEO, Ellevest
PARTICIPANTS:
Ross Beerman, AllLife Group CEO, AllLife
Ajaita Shah, Founder and CEO, Frontier Markets
Sandy Speicher, Partner and Managing Director, Education, IDEO
Scale By Foak
Tamaño:1.80 x 1.80 mts
Pintura: Mariano Abel & Dego Artwork
Técnica mixta, acrílico / aerosol
Mendoza - Argentina - 2012
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Scaled Quail are game birds found in the New World, which have became rather rare due to habitat destruction and hunting.
This isn't the quail *I* grew up with...but a Texas variety.
Happy to have a new scale that seems to be working properly. Bad news is, it throws off my weight loss history. Husband agrees that this scale is probably more accurate and is about four pounds higher than the old one. So, yay for accuracy. But boo, for the appearance that I've gained weight.
Still sick. Sucks. Bad. Throat hurts less today. Chest hurts worse.
The salamanders know where they're going, and they may not move very fast, but they don't let anything get in their way!
East Brunswick closes this road to traffic a few nights a year to protect the Spotted Salamanders, which migrate across it to reach the vernal pools in which they breed. The salamanders move during very specific conditions: the first soaking nighttime rains of spring with temperatures over 40 deg F. More common amphibians can be found as well.
Postscript: This species is the first vertebrate ever found to harbor an intracellular symbiont -- in this case, photosynthetic algae. See www.nature.com/news/2010/100730/full/news.2010.384.html.
Breakout Session: Scaling Impact Enterprises
Creating energy from landfills, connecting women-led coffee cooperatives with international buyers, verifying medications by mobile phone. The audacious ideas of social entrepreneurs can change the world, but critical barriers often inhibit these ideas from getting off the ground. While social entrepreneurs confront challenges typical for most entrepreneurs—such as access to capital, markets, and talent—by virtue of their business model they face added obstacles. Already expected to deliver on ambitious social and environmental returns in addition to financial returns, they also contend with greater institutional investor skepticism and appeasing a wider array of stakeholders. Social enterprises have nonetheless experienced significant growth, with traditional and impact investors committing more than $10 billion to these companies over the last four years—tripling their investments.
In this session, successful social entrepreneurs from around the world will share challenges from their work, as well as opportunities they see to achieve greater impact by scaling impact enterprises. Leaders from the private, public, and civil society sectors will also discuss how CGI members can:
• Design innovative approaches for impact enterprise talent recruitment, development, and retention.
• Define, measure, and communicate the social and environmental impact of social enterprises.
• Incorporate impact enterprises into their supply chains.
• Scale programs that support women and minority-owned enterprises.
MODERATOR:
Sallie Krawcheck, Co-Founder and CEO, Ellevest
PARTICIPANTS:
Ross Beerman, AllLife Group CEO, AllLife
Ajaita Shah, Founder and CEO, Frontier Markets
Sandy Speicher, Partner and Managing Director, Education, IDEO
Ava and her Duplo towers. She built one to be about as tall as she is. (I've been encouraging her to make multiple towers so she can keep building without them getting too tall to be manageable.)
New reticle eyepiece!
Each minor tick mark is 10um on this 10x lomo. I'd say that middle guy is about 160um long!
Hooray measuring things is fun!
Breakout Session: Scaling Impact Enterprises
Creating energy from landfills, connecting women-led coffee cooperatives with international buyers, verifying medications by mobile phone. The audacious ideas of social entrepreneurs can change the world, but critical barriers often inhibit these ideas from getting off the ground. While social entrepreneurs confront challenges typical for most entrepreneurs—such as access to capital, markets, and talent—by virtue of their business model they face added obstacles. Already expected to deliver on ambitious social and environmental returns in addition to financial returns, they also contend with greater institutional investor skepticism and appeasing a wider array of stakeholders. Social enterprises have nonetheless experienced significant growth, with traditional and impact investors committing more than $10 billion to these companies over the last four years—tripling their investments.
In this session, successful social entrepreneurs from around the world will share challenges from their work, as well as opportunities they see to achieve greater impact by scaling impact enterprises. Leaders from the private, public, and civil society sectors will also discuss how CGI members can:
• Design innovative approaches for impact enterprise talent recruitment, development, and retention.
• Define, measure, and communicate the social and environmental impact of social enterprises.
• Incorporate impact enterprises into their supply chains.
• Scale programs that support women and minority-owned enterprises.
MODERATOR:
Sallie Krawcheck, Co-Founder and CEO, Ellevest
PARTICIPANTS:
Ross Beerman, AllLife Group CEO, AllLife
Ajaita Shah, Founder and CEO, Frontier Markets
Sandy Speicher, Partner and Managing Director, Education, IDEO
Day 3 [1-3-2016]
Today was a fantastic day filled with adventure. Began the day with a late wake up as usual and starting the day with a trip to the local dump and grocery store with my dad. Quickly after I picked up Teddy, Eric, and a friend I haven't seen since high school names Maggie. She has been a model for me in high school which is why she shows up in some of my earlier photos. We started our adventure with no destination in mind but slowly built up some ideas leading us through Wompatuck State Park, Granite Links country club, the Quincy quarries, and Harvard Square. Overall my day was quite enjoyable. I was really cutting it close with these uploads due to not having the time to pull out my laptop and upload photos until I returned home, but I am proud of my self for keeping up with this challenge I have given myself. I just have to remind myself that it has only been three days and the challenge has only just begin.
Can't wait to see what the next day brings!
Turnip tail gecko scales. Iwokrama, Guyana.
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