Tweet Looking for something fun to do tonight while supporting a great cause? Come join me at The Adventure Project’s Spring Gala tonight at the penthouse of the Ganseevort Park Hotel! Tickets are available here. TAP is a non-profit focused on increasing “investments in positive social enterprises around the world,” so if you’re reading this [...]
Entries Tagged as 'social enterprise'
The Adventure Project Spring Gala!
May 21st, 2012 · No Comments · socent
Tags:benefit·charity·gala·Haiti·impact investings·India·Kenya·New York City·non-profit·socent·social enterprise·social entrepreneurship·Uganda
Eyeglasses for the Poor
March 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · socent
Tweet VisionSpring, a social enterprise that has been featured on SocentVC previously, just announced a new $250,000 fundraising campaign called “$4 Eyeglasses for the Poor,” with a specific focus on expanding VisionSpring’s outreach to areas of high need in India. What kind of impact can you expect to see from this work? Founder Jordan Kassalow [...]
Tags:eyeglasses·glasses·Ray Ban·social enterprise·sunglasses·vision·VisionSpring·Wayfarer
The Value of the VC Model for Social Enterprises
March 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · VC, socent
Tweet This past weekend was the second installment of the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation (held at NYU again), and it has been a great experience once again, especially as it relates to the refining of some of my previous thoughts regarding “social venture capital” and what value-add it has to the existing world of [...]
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