Macaw: The Code-Savvy Web Design Tool SMS & Voice. Quick, Simple, Global. | Messages, Surveys, Decision Trees and Reminders by engageSPARK Duo, the browser for responsive web development from Electric Pulp EFactor eventbrite.co We're excited to announce Grace Howells from Resonance is going to lead the next event for Manchester Social entrepreneurs on December. Join our community here. During the event Grace will talk about four main topics. An introduction to Resonance: who we are, what we’re up to and how we help social enterprises raise investment to scale their social impact.Describing the Social Investment Landscape: what social investment options are out there and who are they best suited for? Grace is an Investment Analyst at Resonance, where she helps social enterprises develop their social impact and growth strategies, by considering how social investment could help them scale their impact. Resonance is a leading UK impact investment company, helping social enterprises scale their impact by raising finance from investors who share their values.
Team | The Governance Lab Alan Kantrow Alan Kantrow is Chief Learning and Communications Officer of The Governance Lab @ NYU. Prior to joining The GovLab, Alan was Managing Partner of Alan Kantrow LLC, where he provided advice on strategy, organization, innovation, communication, and knowledge management to corporations, colleges and universities, and government entities focused on educational and economic development in many different parts of the world. He is also a Senior Advisor to HCD Global in Shanghai. In parallel, he has been Professor of Management and Director of an infrastructure-focused research center at Moscow School of Management/Skolkovo, Visiting Scholar at Sloan School of Management (MIT), and adjunct lecturer in strategy at Babson College. Previously, for more than a dozen years, Alan was a Senior Partner and Chief Knowledge Officer at Monitor Group. Ali Claire Ali Claire is a Research Assistant at The GovLab. Andrew Young Andrew Young is the Associate Director of Research at The GovLab. Dr.
Eight Sobering Thoughts for Social Impact Bond Supporters On Tuesday, Rick Cohen appeared on THE KOJO NNAMDI SHOW on WAMU in Washington, D.C., to discuss social impact bonds with Jeffrey Liebman, who is a professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of government and director of Harvard’s Social Impact Bond Lab. TUNE IN HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EXCHANGE! At the Council on Foundations’ annual meeting, during a plenary on the state of philanthropy, White House social innovation and civic participation director Jonathan Greenblatt touted the potential of “social impact bonds,” or, in the Obama administration’s nomenclature, “pay for success.” It’s hard to imagine a concept that has taken off quite like social impact bonds—which aren’t actually bonds, but more like equity investments in social problems with a government payout of costs plus an investment return if the programs meet predetermined outcomes. Given that there are only four social impact bond projects underway in the U.S., the hoopla for SIBs is something else.