17 March: Gender Finance Lab
An educational workshop that aims to build awareness, understanding and skills relevant to gender lens investing. Aimed at impact investment and social enterprise practitioners | Oxford
2 April: Impact Agoralaunch event
Impact Agora aims to build a community ofover 40 accelerators, fund managers, investor networks, corporates, family offices, advisers, foundations and wealth managers - a community committed to impact-driven entrepreneurs and funds | Barclays, London
Boards of philanthropic foundations are 99% white, compared to 92% in the wider charity sector, and male Trustees outnumber female Trustees by two to one | Forbes (⏰ 3 min)
How Thomas Piketty Lost Touch with Reality
Piketty wants to transform European politics. But he ignores the real concerns of most people, arguesPaul Collier | New Statesman (6 min)
The Capitalisn't of Coronavirus
An economist view of the coronavirus outbreak. How should we think about the economic trade-offs of interventionist quarantine measures, could this virus change the way we work? | Capitalisn't podcast (43 min)
Power, Philanthropy and Inequality
Less than 2% of global philanthropic capital is dedicated to climate causes despite the widely shared view that climate represents a genuine and urgent crisis. | LSE (60 min)
The Future is Hers
Ford Foundation celebrates women changemakers | YouTube (0.40 min)
5 Documentaries Every Social Entrepreneur Should Watch
The list was compiled in 2018, but includes now-classic films to inspire social entrepreneurs, including: The True Cost, Real Value and One Dollar a Day (various)
18Bond, a proposal to issue a universal grant to all young Italians turning 18, won first place in last month's prestigious Global Public Policy Network conference. The winning team was made up of five LSE Master of Public Administration students: Carmen Mira, Filippo Maria Bandini, Zakaria Bekkali, Antonia Ramm and Victoria Suárez-Rubio (below).
🔎 New research
Impact Investing: a theory of financing social entrepreneurship
The author presents a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. Benjamin N Roth, Associate Professor of Business Adminstration, Harvard Business School. Pub Feb 2020.
2.Social Impact and Career Growth Fellowship, Moving Worlds. Berlin and remote. Open to early- to mid-career professionals from across all sectors. Applications close April 30
3.Lanterne is seeking a detail-oriented intern. Currently half a day a week on a voluntary basis. The position could grow. Lanterne is an award-winning social enterprise run by LSE alumni
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