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| Social Fusion's programs are designed to help both for-profit and nonprofit social ventures successfully grow credible companies. The programs extend the success of Social Fusion's incubator services [link to incubator services] to a broader audience, and emphasize partnership and resource leverage to enable high-potential ventures to gain credibility and resources to grow more effectively.
| Conversations in Social Enterprise: Best Practices Lunch Series |
| Conversations in Social Enterprise is a powerful forum for direct engagement with the leaders that are shaping a new domain of business-based social innovation. This dialogue is an opportunity for investors, philanthropists, and business leaders to learn, and to share Best Practices with leading and emerging social entrepreneurs. This is a safe or ‘pitch-free’ environment where knowledge and candid engagement are cultivated. Each session addresses a critical growth challenge for social entrepreneurs, with a focus on both for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. Collectively, we are pushing social enterprise practices to the next level. more information » |
| Social Venture Institute (SVI) |
| The Social Venture Institute (SVI) is an opportunity for social entrepreneurs to meet with a select group of social, foundation and business innovators to discuss and create high-potential partnerships to address social entrepreneurial sector growth and challenges. Industry expert panelists and established social entrepreneurs will share leading practices in social entrepreneurism. Funders (both nonprofit and for-profit) with a high interest in social enterprise will participate in all sessions. more information » |
| Venture Series 2003 - 2004 Investors' Circle |
| Social Fusion offered in 2003 the first Nonprofit Venture Series and first ever Boot Camp and curriculum for social entrepreneurs. In 2004 Social Fusion partnered with Investor's Circle and worked with Springboard Enterprises to co-host two successful for-profit social venture forums to bring Venture investing discipline and capital opportunities to social entrepreneurs. In 2005 Social Fusion will partner again with Investor's Circle and with the Women's Technology Cluster to support two social venture forums on both the west coast and east coast in the U.S. |
Read about the successful programs that Social Fusion conducted in 2003 and 2004:
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Imagine a girl who lives in a dangerous San Jose neighborhood. She wants to participate in the girls' after-school program, but she cannot. It is unsafe for her to walk home at 6:00 at night and her parents work until 8:00. Therefore, she goes home, right after school every day at 2:30, where she waits alone until her parents return. This is a common story.
Imagine that same girl. Imagine that she knows how to address obstacles that limit her. Imagine that she goes to her principal and explains the problem and then she calls one of her mentors who connects her to the County Supervisor in her district. She also organizes a group of friends who have the same problem. Imagine that she sets a meeting with her friends, the principal, the mayor and the County Supervisor. She facilitates that meeting with the aim of finding a solution. And she does. Now she and her fellow students stay after school and have a safe way home. This is our work.
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