by Amy Seidman | Investment, SoCap, Video
Impact investing expert Dan Crisafulli affirms the role of social capital to facilitate critical solutions on behalf of environmental and social challenges we face today. In this video interview, Crisafulli talks about how impact investing provides companies, private...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, SoCap
“We gain something profound when we stand up for our beliefs, just as part of us dies when we know that something is wrong, yet do nothing….We don’t have to tackle every issue, but if we avoid them all, if we remain silent in the face of cruelty,...
by R. Paul Herman | Investment, SoCap, Socially Responsible, Sustainability
The global economy is made up of capital in many forms. Fortune magazine’s recent annual release of the 100 Best Companies to Work For list and the annual Great Place to Work® Conference in April 2015 present opportunities for investors to better understand the...
by Eve Ellis | SoCap, Thought Leadership, Women
Why do companies with gender diverse boards perform better? As the portfolio manager of a strategy which seeks to benefit from this fact,* I am often asked this question by investors who think there must be one holy grail answer. They even seem ready to boast...
by Amy Seidman | Highlights, SoCap
San Francisco – October 5-9, 2015 you can join a legion of global innovators, investors, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs at Fort Mason in San Francisco. SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) is a world-renowned conference series...
by Ray Podder | Energy, Featured, In Focus, SoCap
In 1997, while rummaging through a bin of novelty items in a tiny sidewalk shop in San Francisco’s China Town, I stumbled upon an item that sounded too good to be true. It was a shaving razor made of a self sharpening non-metallic material that was supposed to be good...