Innovative Funding Mechanisms for Social Change

Dr. Peter W. Heller

doi:10.5771/9783845213132

Summary

The citizen sector is rising worldwide, social initiatives and enterprises have provided much needed products and services to improve poor people’s quality of life. In many countries the citizen sector has grown faster than the public sector and the world of business and created millions of new jobs. To meet the challenges of upscaling and replicating successful operations, social pioneers have begun to adopt business models and management strategies from the market economy; they have become “social entrepreneurs”. They are restless and busy people, they have no time and in most cases no money. The development of their social enterprises is often severely compromised by the lack of adequate financial resources, and the search for innovative funding mechanisms for social change has become a top priority of both philanthropic organizations and social entrepreneurs.

The book explores the potential of structured social investment products and asset management strategies to give venture philanthropy a broader range of options in providing equity and debt to social enterprises. The authors inquire into their preconditions, relevance and outreach to society at large, and ask how innovative approaches can be scaled to improve their impact.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2009
Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-3948-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-1313-2
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 141
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 15
1. The History of Sympathetic Values No access Pages 16 - 23
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2. The Dark Matter of Foundation Assets No access Pages 24 - 25
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3. Venture Philanthropy – From Operations to Finance No access Pages 26 - 37
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4. The Business Case for Philanthropy No access Pages 38 - 55
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1. The Eye Fund No access Pages 56 - 62
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2. Financing The Eye Fund No access Pages 63 - 67
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3. The Sekem Fund No access Pages 68 - 72
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4. Sekem: Liberating a Vision, an Artistic Approach to Entrepreneurship No access Pages 73 - 91
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5. The Media Loan Development Fund No access Pages 92 - 97
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6. The Media Development Loan Fund – Operation and Funding Mechanism No access Pages 98 - 121
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7. The F.B. Heron Foundation No access Pages 122 - 127
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1. A New Template for Funding Philanthropy? No access Pages 128 - 133
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2. More Ventures for Smiling Money No access Pages 134 - 135
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List of Authors No access Pages 136 - 141