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		<title>entrepreneurcommons - Top 150 &#8220;Social Capital&#8221; Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[entrepreneurcommons - Top 150 &#8220;Social Capital&#8221; Blogs.
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		<title>Sparxoo » Top 5 Venture Capital Firms: Funding Social Missions</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/sparxoo-%c2%bb-top-5-venture-capital-firms-funding-social-missions/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/sparxoo-%c2%bb-top-5-venture-capital-firms-funding-social-missions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, a new breed of venture capital firms has emerged to make an impact beyond just profitability. Social venture capital funds are adding a new mission in combination with positive financial returns: social and environmental impact. Highlighting social venture funds across the world, this week’s top five will focus on VC portfolios that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Home</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/schwab-foundation-for-social-entrepreneurship-home/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/schwab-foundation-for-social-entrepreneurship-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geneva]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit, independent and neutral organization, founded in 1998, with the purpose to advance social entrepreneurship and to foster social entrepreneurs as an important catalyst for societal innovation and progress. The Foundation is under the legal supervision of the Swiss Federal Government and is headquartered in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland.
Mission

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOLANS: The Business of Social Innovation</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/volans-the-business-of-social-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/volans-the-business-of-social-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Focusing on the business of social innovation, Volans is part think-tank, part consultancy, part broker and part incubator. We are a for-profit company based in London and Singapore and we work globally with entrepreneurs, businesses, investors and governments to develop and scale innovative solutions to financial, social and environmental challenges.
Volans focuses on three key areas:

Talent: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communities: Humanity+</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/communities-humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/communities-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Online Communities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The goal of Humanity+ is to support discussion and public awareness of emerging technologies, to defend the right of individuals in free and democratic societies to adopt technologies that expand human capacities, and to anticipate and propose solutions for the potential consequences of emerging technologies.
What is the Mission of Humanity+?
Humanity+ is an international nonprofit membership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Organization: Trickle Up</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/cool-organization-trickle-up/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/cool-organization-trickle-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microfinance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trickle Up helps very poor people make their 			        way out of poverty. We provide business training, seed capital 			          grants and support to help people launch a microenterprise.
Trickle Up offers grants, not loans, to  participants because we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GF Expands Microfinance in China</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/gf-expands-microfinance-in-china-grameen-foundation-resource-center-newsroom-enewsletter-cvn-winter-09/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/gf-expands-microfinance-in-china-grameen-foundation-resource-center-newsroom-enewsletter-cvn-winter-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Stoner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[grameen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grameen Bank]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[microfinance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Yunus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank gave international recognition to the quiet movement of microfinance- a concept that converged two very different views of development, social development and market-driven development, together.
Grameen Foundation, inspired by the work of Grameen Bank, harnesses the power of socially minded, market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>blueEnergy: Renewable Energy Service in Central America</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/blueenergy-renewable-energy-service-in-central-america/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/blueenergy-renewable-energy-service-in-central-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Change Organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nicaragua]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[paris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[blueEnergy is a nonprofit organization that provides a sustainable solution to the energy needs of marginalized communities through the construction, installation, and maintenance of hybrid wind and solar electric systems. blueEnergy manufactures wind turbines and other key components locally, near their point of usage, to create the capacity needed to support the long-term operation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question Box - All About Question Box</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/question-box-all-about-question-box/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/question-box-all-about-question-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Ventures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question Box is Open Mind’s initiative to bring information to people the way they want to receive it.
For us, that means:

Local language
Live telephone hotlines
SMS answers
&#38; more

All Question Box projects are tailored to match the needs of the locations we operate in and our partners.
Technologies
Software
Question Box&#8217;s backend software logs all call data and indexes operators previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture Investing, The Socially Responsible Way - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ</title>
		<link>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/venture-investing-the-socially-responsible-way-venture-capital-dispatch-wsj/</link>
		<comments>http://socialenterprise.som2010.com/2009/07/venture-investing-the-socially-responsible-way-venture-capital-dispatch-wsj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Murray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Investment Fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Socially responsible investing, which aims to maximize both financial return and social good, often gets a bad rap. There’s a perception that returns in the sector fall victim to social goals, or vice versa.
Josh Cohen believes his firm, City Light Capital, has the right formula to avoid this trade-off. Since 2004, the New York-based firm [...]]]></description>
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