Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business

On Sunday, February 22, a program entitled Starting & Growing a Social Enterprise: Panel and Showcase will take place at Stanford University. The program is sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is part of Stanford's Entrepreneurship Week.

The program will consist of two parts. The first part will be a panel presentation in which the following speakers will discuss key success factors in starting and growing a social enterprise:

Jane Leu - Founder and Executive Director, Upwardly Global
Chuck Slaughter - Founder and President, LivingGoods
Morgan Simon – Cofounder and Executive Director, Responsible Endowments Coalition
Regina Starr Ridley - Publishing Director, Stanford Social Innovation Review (moderator)

Following the panel there will be a fair sponsored by the Stanford Media X Program which will spotlight early-stage social ventures.

This program will take place from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater, Building 160 (map, parking information). There is no charge to attend this program.

On Sunday, February 24, a panel session entitled Funding Social Enterprises took place at Stanford University. The panel was part of Stanford’s recent Entrepreneurship Week and was sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Digital Vision Program at Stanford. More than 150 people attended this panel, which discussed strategies for financing social enterprises. Panel participants were:

Jenny Shilling Stein – Executive Director, Draper Richards Foundation
Jessica Jackley Flannery – Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Kiva.org
Amy Clark – Global Fellows Program Leader, Ashoka
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr – Ashoka Fellow and Founder, BUILD
Kriss Deiglmeier – Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford University Graduate School of Business (moderator)

The following free audio (MP3 format) of the event is available:

Audio of complete panel session (20 MB)
Response by Jenny Shilling Stein to the question "At what stage do the funders come in when funding a social venture and what are they looking for?""
Response by Amy Clark to the question "At what stage do the funders come in when funding a social venture and what are they looking for?"

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