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Friday, August 11, 2006

Clare mulvaney

Spent the day with Clare who is doing a tour visiting various social entrepreneurs and she asked me to tell my "story". This took some time.

She had also taken some pictures of the work we did with the graffiti artists yesterday. I will try and upload them today onto this site.

chek-out Clare's blog called exceptional lives. The link is avaialble on my webpage.

Clare also knows of a social market exchange that has been establsihed in Brazil which sounds very similar to our idea of the stakeholder's exchange.

Clare told me that she attended the Skoll World Forum on Social Investment at Oxford in March this year. Some speakers were discussing a social market exchange:

Ron Grzywinski, the Founder and CE of Shorebank says:
"Experiments with one investment approach or another are good. But soon we are going to need new processes of exchange if these are to grow or replicate and lever new resources for social change.

A social stock exchange offers one such mechanism. What would a mature social equity offering look like? What is the scope for a genuinely market-based social equity market – what are the inflexion points for change?

How can the social networks of an exchange community such as this increase the flow of philanthropic resources too?

What types of information on impact facilitate exchange – can the social sector deliver?

Can the cultural barriers to working with a wider range of mechanisms in the social
enterprise field be overcome – how else can they be helped to access new networks?"

We at Sunstyle will continue to explore these ideas.

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