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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
April 15, 2023
Bike Project: here are some upgrades to the Trek I picked up this year. I had some concerns about how well this derailleur would work with "road" chainrings - it works great! Turns out that a MTB front derailleur can shift to a 46 tooth chainring with no problem. Kinda verifies word on the street that Shimano specs for derailleur capacity are very conservative.
Tokyo, Japan
March 22nd, 2019
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
This National Historic Site consists of three facilities: a main office and two significant Cold War-era sites, a launch control center and a missile silo/launch facility, formerly operated by the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron of the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, headquartered at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota. The facilities represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km2) of southwestern South Dakota.[4]
The silo, known as launch facility Delta Nine (D-09) was constructed in 1963. It occupies 1.6 acres (6,000 m2) one-half mile (800 m) southwest of Interstate 90 at Exit 116 and six miles (10 km) from the town of Wall, South Dakota, in eastern Pennington County. It consists of an underground launch tube ("missile silo") 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and 80 feet (24 m) deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner. An unarmed missile is on display inside. The launch tube's 110-ton cover has been rolled partly away and welded to the rails it rides on. The launch tube was then covered with a glass viewing enclosure. Not only does this permit visitors to see the missile, it means Russian satellites are able to verify that the site is not operational, and hence in compliance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Because the only way to get to the underground part of the site is by a ladder 20 feet (6.1 m) long, tours are not conducted underground for safety reasons. Visitors can conduct self-guided tours of the site during the day by calling a number on their cell phones and walking around the site, listening to the description of various points over the phone.
The launch control facility, known as Delta One (D-01), is about 10.5 miles (16.9 km) away, to the east-southeast in northwestern Jackson County. It occupies approximately six acres (24,000 m2) 1.7 miles (3 km) north of I-90 at Exit 127. It consists of an above-ground building containing a kitchen, sleeping quarters, offices and life support equipment. Below this building is the actual launch control center, buried 31 feet (9.4 m) deep, connected to the building by an elevator. Guided tours are conducted underground here, but are limited to six people at a time due to the very small underground launch control center ("capsule") and are a half-hour long. Self-guided tours are not possible here; the gate for the fence around D-01 is always locked, just like it was when it was an active launch control facility.
This is a picture of a Chinese Mantis on the exterior wall of the Center of Applied Learning and Technology (CALT) building at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland.
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Round Bay Quad
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – First Lieutenant Dustin Vincent, mission commander, Battery A, 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, inspects Pfc. Robert Bloom’s weapon upon returning to Contingency Operating Site Warrior, Iraq, following combined checkpoint validations, Aug. 30, 2011.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Robert DeDeaux, 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General arrives at the Vienna International Airport after his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He spoke with his senior officials before briefing the international press and media. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
These re-mixed, Creative Commons, images are samples that I created to illustrate how K-12 students might be encouraged to create "Images with a Message". Instructional details for this activity/project, together with a student handout, can be found on my "Life-Long-Learners.com" blog at: Images with a Message.
One of the most impressive features of the Omuro Gosho is the beautiful tatami and artwork on the screens. I have yet to verify this information, but I read that these screen paintings were done by court artist Zaizen Hara.
Ninna-ji is a Shingon temple with a beautiful array of gardens and architecture. It was originally founded in 886 and completed in 888. After being destroyed by fire during the Onin war, it was rebuilt with the aid of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, in the early 1600's. It is an UNESCO world heritage site, and several of the structures are important cultural property. The Nio-mon is one of the Three Great gates of Kyoto.
Ninna-ji. Ukyo, Kyoto.
Verification of the conditions of the main vault in the large baths of the Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, last summer.
Original shots taken with a Nikon N70 (F70), Tamron 19-35mm lens on Fujifilm neopan 1600 asa black and white film, light post processing.
Street with vendors and crowd of people. Verify if Puerto Rico. 1899.
Name of Expedition: Allison V. Armour Expedition
Participants: Charles F. Millspaugh, Edward P. Allen, Edward S. Isham Jr.,Jordan L. Mott Jr.
Expedition Start Date: December 21, 1898
Expedition End Date: March 11, 1899
Purpose and Aims: Plant collecting and photography for Botany in the Bermuda, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Yucatan.
Vessel Name: Utowana (Yacht, Sailboat)
Location: Central America
Original material: 4x5 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSB4226
IAEA Safeguard Inspectors Spent Fuel Course at CLAB, Sweden. 15-19 November 2021 (CLAB, Central Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel, Oskarshamn, Sweden)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General arrives at the Vienna International Airport after his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He spoke with his senior officials before briefing the international press and media. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is ready for electrical verification testing now that it has been installed on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. A handling fixture, at far left, remains attached. This is the third and final RTG to be installed on Cassini for the prelaunch tests. The RTGs will provide electrical power to Cassini on its 6.7-year trip to the Saturnian system and during its four-year mission at Saturn. RTGs use heat from the natural decay of plutonium to generate electric power. The generators enable spacecraft to operate at great distances from the Sun where solar power systems are not feasible. The Cassini mission is targeted for an Oct. 6 launch aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur expendable launch vehicle. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
(Lithospermum ruderale)
“Shoshoni women reportedly drank an infusion of Stoneseed root everyday to act as a contraceptive. Experiments using alcoholic extracts of the plant on mice eliminated the estrus cycle, thus verifying in part the Indian use.
This perennial has a clump of hairy stems and lanceolate leaves, 1 to 4 inches long. The flowers are in small clusters in the upper axils of the leaves. The plant grows in relatively dry places up to mid elevations up in the mountains.
The Greek name Lithospermum, comes from two Greek words, stone and seed, a reference to the very stony seeds. The common name, Puccoon, is an Indian (Native American) word for plants yielding dyes,”
Quoted from: Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. By Richard J. Shaw, page 100.