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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
The highest waterfall in the Lake District with a single fall of around 120 feet. Total fall around 170 feet.
Top: Epson V700 at 6400 dpi scaled up to 8000 dpi.
Bottom: Aztek Premier at 8000 dpi.
Quick and dirty comparison of output from the esteemed Mr. Lenny Eiger's $40,000 Aztek Premier and my little Epson V700.
Check out the lettering in the bottom right corner of the window. It's some kind of safety glass logo, I believe. In the V700 scan it's just a blur. There's much more detail in the Aztek. Of course, looking at the chest hair you can see chroma noise in the Aztek scan that isn't there in the Epson scan. Interesting comparison, IMO. My thanks to Mr. Eiger for making it possible.
This is the finished piece of the cabachon tutorial I did that began on April 18th at: janiceabarbanel.blogspot.com
"Fish-scale" Calcite. This unusual lamellar form of Calcite occurs when the mineral forms thin, tabular crystals in layered masses. The scale-like surface has a pearly luster. This form may arise under low-temperature hydrothermal conditions. U.S. Borax Mine. Boron, Kern Co., Calif. (Collection of the Mines Museum of Earth Science. Golden, Colo.)