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Gold scale ca. 1880, from the First National bank of Yankton. The precise measure allowed miners to use unrefined gold dust as a medium for exchange. (at left) Buckskin gold poke, ca. 1880, used to hold miner’s find. Miners often wore these pokes around their necks to hide them from thieves. (at right)
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
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
I think this photo shows scale well, which I find really hard to do in general, and extremely difficult with a cameraphone. It's a bit blurry, but what are you going to do? You can't have it all. EDIT - I can't have it all.
The bridge in the foreground is the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis. The building in the background is the rather dramatic Guthrie Theater.
(Requires Google Earth)
Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Forces conducted a clearing operation in Ormuz district, Helmand province, yesterday. The operation lead to the discovery of 616 pounds (280 kilograms) of wet opium, 88 pounds (40 kilograms) of concentrated fertilizer, narcotics paraphernalia, and a pressure plate. This combined operation was conducted at a bazaar in the Ormuz district in order to disrupt narcotics and insurgent activity in Central Helmand. The 280kg of wet opium was found to be worth under $50,000 locally. (Courtesy photo)
printed a copy of the M8 and adhered it to foamcore to check the scale. This one is about 95% where it needs to be
HO Scale 1:87
Its been a while since I did this kind of work. I recently aquirred some plastic HO scale model freight cars from a friend who found them on freecycle. The plastic model was weathered using artist oils, acrylic paint, pastel chalk..drybrush and washes...i forgot how much fun this is
and remember: "rust never sleeps"
The remains of the eastbound platform, Scale Hall railway station, Lancaster. Tuesday 10 April 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D.
See our horse team in the bottom right? I love the openness, the huge scale of Ladakh and the Kyama Barma Chu valley. I have procesed this shot naturally; the colours are subtle.
After getting new fenders and "rusting" them, this is the completed upper body. Completed two hours before the modelers show.
I made a country-cottage-ish half scale fireplace from Sculpey clay.
Blogged about here: amazingminiatures.com/blog/half-scale-country-fireplace/
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
Well we picked up some more scape people and hit the Bellevue Botanical Garden for some fun. I really like the protestors, and the portable toilet that Sherri picked out really made this a great scene.
1/64 scale
made of paper, cardboard, glue, a bit of wire, weeds, and waterbased paint.
Inspired by David& Bella's photo: www.flickr.com/photos/davidwpearcy/317499111/
Trying to get real weights of my 125s using a bathroom scale...
AFS (125 with CRF frame): 93,3 kg
CR 125 '98: 94,9 kg
VRP '91: 94,1 kg
old scale in a workshop on the terrain of the portbou railway station on the border between spain and france.
Another model from a along time ago. Designed by the Architecten CIE I believe this was a submission for a competition for the Tongji University Library.
Scale 1:200, completely white with some translucent glass. Sharp model for a sharp design.
Model by AMOD China:
Jan Lewis
Day 26 of 366
Can you guess what this is? Here is a hint...I went into Tandy Leather today. They are located in the store front next to where I get my hair cut. I was super busy today running errands and I thought maybe they might have something interesting to photograph for my post today.
This is a python skin. They told me it was the real deal. Lots of other skins too...including a small alligator skin which I also took a shot of. Most of the hides were cattle (some painted to look like exotic animals) and LOTS of leather (no surprise there!) Handy iPhone to the rescue (again!). It looks like a black and white shot, but actually this is the real colors.