Posts Tagged ‘Spring 2010’

Financial Strategies To Expand Your Impact: Spring 2010

Posted on: June 30th, 2010 by socialventurenetwork No Comments

We all like the idea of making a bigger difference with our companies and non-profits today, but live in a financial system that most often encourages us to pay a profit now and make a difference later. What are some real financial strategies that can help you increase your social and environmental impact while creating a stronger and more robust company? How much impact can survive in bad times? How do you balance passions and the need to raise equity and debt? David Berge of Vancity and David Chen of Equilibrium Capital discussed these questions and more at the 2010 SVN Spring Member Gathering during a plenary entitled “Financial Strategies to Expand Your Impact.”

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Spring Conference: Innovations in Renewable Energy

Posted on: June 18th, 2010 by socialventurenetwork No Comments

Bob Beisner of SolarWorld, Roby Roberts of Horizon Wind Energy and Catherine Mater of Mater Engineering discussed the hurdles and opportunities for renewable energy in the Pacific Northwest, in the U.S. and around the world. Innovations will have to drive costs down to make renewable energy accessible to the developing world and drive efficiency up to meet our insatiable appetite for energy. This panel was moderated by MaryAnne Howland of IBIS Communications.

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Spring Conference: Online Pathways to Positive Social Change

Posted on: June 18th, 2010 by socialventurenetwork No Comments

Matt Flannery, founder of Kiva Microfunds, Jensine Larsen, founder World Pulse Media and Mark Marosits of Woldways Social Marketing discussed ways to leverage internet technology to more effectively grow social ventures. They offered concrete examples of how to engage a truly global audience online.

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How To: Add Conference Sessions to Your Schedule

Posted on: April 23rd, 2010 by socialventurenetwork No Comments

With our new Conference Connections site you can view the complete conference agenda and create your own custom schedule.

There are two ways to add a conference session to your own, personal schedule (which is viewable by clicking the “My Schedule” tab under the the “Schedule” tab).

1. To quickly add multiple sessions to your personal schedule, visit the conference schedule tab. By moving your cursor over the individual session (the white box) you’d like to add a green circle with a white plus sign will appear in the upper right corner. Click that green circle to add the session to your schedule. The symbol will turn into a check mark indicating you’ve successfully added it to your schedule. To remove a session you’ve added, move your cursor over the green check mark and it will turn into a red minus sign. Click the red minus sign and that session will be removed.
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2. If you click on a session title you will be taken to that sessions page. Here you can see the session description, speaker info and the other participants attending that session. To add this session to your schedule click the “Add to my schedule” button in the upper left.

WalkingTour

One session is space limited, the Portland Sustainable Business Walking Tour on Sunday afternoon, from 12:45pm to 3:30pm, so if you’d like to attend make sure to add it to your schedule. Click here to visit the Walking Tour page where you can add it to your schedule to sign up.

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