The document discusses mobilizing people to protect forests. It introduces the author, Vu Khanh Huyen, and explains that forests are important for combating climate change but are declining due to issues like deforestation, fires, and loose management. To protect forests, the document suggests that people should join campaigns to raise awareness, plant more trees, avoid cutting down forests, and condemn those who destroy forests.
This document discusses ARUN, LLC and its social investment platform. It summarizes that ARUN envisions a society with equal opportunities regardless of background. Its mission is to create opportunities and empower people through a social investment platform connecting investors and social enterprises. The platform supports communication between investors and investee enterprises in sectors like agriculture, women's empowerment and ethical tourism. ARUN has grown from 10 investors and 16 million yen in 2009 to 81 investors and 62 million yen in 2012.
The document introduces Vu Khanh Huyen, a 14-year-old female student from THCS Tan Thanh in Vietnam. It discusses the importance of protecting forests due to climate change risks. It recommends joining campaigns to raise awareness of forest protection, planting trees, and not cutting down or destroying forests to help protect them.
Dr. Yang Saing Koma received the 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award for establishing ARUN, a social investment platform in Cambodia that links investors with social enterprises. ARUN envisions a society where all people can achieve their potential regardless of background. It creates opportunities and empowers people by building a platform that supports communication between investors and investee enterprises across sectors like agriculture, finance, and education. ARUN has grown from 10 investors and 16 million yen in 2009 to 81 investors and 62 million yen in 2012, adding new investee companies each year.
This document summarizes a speech given by Ben Simmes on social investment trends. It discusses:
1) What social investment is, including providing both financial and social returns at modest levels.
2) Trends in social investing, such as growing interest but limited opportunities. Examples show social and environmental impact can be achieved at scale.
3) Oikocredit as an example social investor, providing loans to cooperatives and businesses in developing countries like dairy farmers in Kenya and female vendors in Cote d'Ivoire. It emphasizes both financial sustainability and social impact.
The document discusses mobilizing people to protect forests. It introduces the author, Vu Khanh Huyen, and explains that forests are important for combating climate change but are declining due to issues like deforestation, fires, and loose management. To protect forests, the document suggests that people should join campaigns to raise awareness, plant more trees, avoid cutting down forests, and condemn those who destroy forests.
This document discusses ARUN, LLC and its social investment platform. It summarizes that ARUN envisions a society with equal opportunities regardless of background. Its mission is to create opportunities and empower people through a social investment platform connecting investors and social enterprises. The platform supports communication between investors and investee enterprises in sectors like agriculture, women's empowerment and ethical tourism. ARUN has grown from 10 investors and 16 million yen in 2009 to 81 investors and 62 million yen in 2012.
The document introduces Vu Khanh Huyen, a 14-year-old female student from THCS Tan Thanh in Vietnam. It discusses the importance of protecting forests due to climate change risks. It recommends joining campaigns to raise awareness of forest protection, planting trees, and not cutting down or destroying forests to help protect them.
Dr. Yang Saing Koma received the 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award for establishing ARUN, a social investment platform in Cambodia that links investors with social enterprises. ARUN envisions a society where all people can achieve their potential regardless of background. It creates opportunities and empowers people by building a platform that supports communication between investors and investee enterprises across sectors like agriculture, finance, and education. ARUN has grown from 10 investors and 16 million yen in 2009 to 81 investors and 62 million yen in 2012, adding new investee companies each year.
This document summarizes a speech given by Ben Simmes on social investment trends. It discusses:
1) What social investment is, including providing both financial and social returns at modest levels.
2) Trends in social investing, such as growing interest but limited opportunities. Examples show social and environmental impact can be achieved at scale.
3) Oikocredit as an example social investor, providing loans to cooperatives and businesses in developing countries like dairy farmers in Kenya and female vendors in Cote d'Ivoire. It emphasizes both financial sustainability and social impact.
A 2 aumen fund measuring social impact-molly alexanderadhersdomain
1) The document discusses measuring the social and financial returns of patient capital investments using metrics.
2) It describes Acumen's approach of tracking key metrics in three categories - financial, operational, and social - as well as company-specific metrics.
3) The process involves selecting meaningful metrics, setting targets, collecting and synthesizing data, and regularly reviewing outputs to inform decision making.
ARUN LLC operates in Cambodia to empower social entrepreneurs and provide access to financing. It is registered with the Cambodian government and manages investments totaling $457,840 as of September 2012. ARUN's activities include discovering social enterprises, offering investment programs, providing managerial support, and promoting social enterprise. Its goal is to increase opportunities for employment and poverty reduction through connections made on its social investment platform between investors and enterprises.
Acumen Fund is a nonprofit social investment fund that provides patient capital to companies focused on sustainably serving the poor. Over the past decade, Acumen has invested $79 million in 69 companies across multiple industries like housing, health, energy, agriculture and education, reaching over 90 million individuals and creating 57,000 jobs. Acumen seeks potential "game changing" investments that have the ability to significantly impact poverty at a large scale and become financially self-sustaining. The organization operates through local offices in multiple emerging markets and plans to expand its global footprint and portfolio size to $150 million impacting 150 million lives by 2015.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for a social business producing reusable sanitary pads in Cambodia. It proposes a pilot phase to test selling pads to NGOs in Cambodia and customers in Japan and the US. The pilot would target sales of 100 pads to 5 Cambodian NGOs at $3 each and 100 pads each to customers in Japan and the US at $10 each. It provides estimated costs of $3320 for the pilot phase activities including product design, training, materials, a used sewing machine, production costs, and international shipment. The document also discusses challenges of distribution in rural Cambodia and high price sensitivity among Cambodian customers.
B 2 aavishkarr building partnerships through fund raisingadhersdomain
The document outlines the typical steps an organization takes to build partnerships and raise funds. It discusses raising money first from individual investors, then private foundations, followed by government banks and local institutions. Next are development finance institutions who invest larger amounts. Finally, private and commercial investors may provide funding once the organization's reputation is strong. The key is demonstrating success with earlier investors to convince later investors to support the growing organization.
Aavishkaar II outlines Aavishkaar's strategy and learnings from its past investments. It set out to demonstrate the potential for venture capital investment in rural and bottom of the pyramid markets in India. Over time, it has refined its investment philosophy to focus on more scalable businesses with proven models, experienced entrepreneurs, and clearer paths to viability and growth. Moving forward, Aavishkaar will focus on strategically sowing, tending, and reaping investments across three stages, with an emphasis on mentoring early stage companies and helping more mature portfolio companies reach their full potential for social and financial impact.
A 2 ben simmes social environmental impact.pptadhersdomain
Oikocredit aims to achieve social impact through five pillars: 1) strengthening its own operations, 2) partnering with responsible microfinance institutions, 3) benefiting end-clients, 4) contributing to the microfinance sector, and 5) engaging investors. Key activities to support these pillars include conducting social audits of partners, promoting transparency and client protection, providing capacity building, and monitoring social performance data. The ultimate goals are empowering disadvantaged people through access to credit and promoting global social justice through socially responsible investing.
The document discusses ARUN's social impact monitoring of its social investments in Cambodia. It provides an overview of ARUN's vision to create social value through social investment. It then outlines the objectives of social impact monitoring as understanding investees' business, providing feedback to partners and investees. General due diligence criteria and monitoring indicators are presented. The monitoring methodology section discusses using logic models and stakeholder analysis. Finally, a case study of Sahakreas CEDAC's organic rice project is provided, highlighting its outcomes of reaching households and generating income while vitalizing the local economy.
Frangipani Villa Hotels is a boutique hotel company in Cambodia founded by three co-founders with backgrounds in architecture, design, finance, and operations. The company renovates heritage buildings to create unique boutique hotels while preserving Cambodian architecture and culture. Frangipani Villa Hotels' vision is to be a leading integrated hospitality experience in Cambodia and beyond through providing unique arts and hospitality experiences while taking social and environmental responsibility. Current projects include the Frangipani Royal Palace Hotel and plans for future expansion.
The document discusses social investment around the world. It provides statistics showing that socially responsible investment assets totaled €7,594 billion in Europe and $4,986 billion in the US. Impact investment is predicted to be $400 billion to $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Some of the major alliances and networks mentioned are the Global Impact Investing Network, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum. Examples are given of impact investment funds and the sectors and locations they invest in as well as outcomes achieved.
CEDAC established Sahakreas CEDAC (SKC) in 2009 to market organic rice and other products from farmers it supports. SKC procures organic rice from 2000 farmers, stores, mills, packages and distributes the rice domestically and internationally. CEDAC provides technical support to farmers to produce organic rice at lower costs. It aims to improve farmers' livelihoods, sustainable agriculture, and public health. It now plans to establish rice mill cooperatives to further integrate farmers and allow them to sell milled rice for higher prices.
A 2 aumen fund measuring social impact-molly alexanderadhersdomain
1) The document discusses measuring the social and financial returns of patient capital investments using metrics.
2) It describes Acumen's approach of tracking key metrics in three categories - financial, operational, and social - as well as company-specific metrics.
3) The process involves selecting meaningful metrics, setting targets, collecting and synthesizing data, and regularly reviewing outputs to inform decision making.
ARUN LLC operates in Cambodia to empower social entrepreneurs and provide access to financing. It is registered with the Cambodian government and manages investments totaling $457,840 as of September 2012. ARUN's activities include discovering social enterprises, offering investment programs, providing managerial support, and promoting social enterprise. Its goal is to increase opportunities for employment and poverty reduction through connections made on its social investment platform between investors and enterprises.
Acumen Fund is a nonprofit social investment fund that provides patient capital to companies focused on sustainably serving the poor. Over the past decade, Acumen has invested $79 million in 69 companies across multiple industries like housing, health, energy, agriculture and education, reaching over 90 million individuals and creating 57,000 jobs. Acumen seeks potential "game changing" investments that have the ability to significantly impact poverty at a large scale and become financially self-sustaining. The organization operates through local offices in multiple emerging markets and plans to expand its global footprint and portfolio size to $150 million impacting 150 million lives by 2015.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for a social business producing reusable sanitary pads in Cambodia. It proposes a pilot phase to test selling pads to NGOs in Cambodia and customers in Japan and the US. The pilot would target sales of 100 pads to 5 Cambodian NGOs at $3 each and 100 pads each to customers in Japan and the US at $10 each. It provides estimated costs of $3320 for the pilot phase activities including product design, training, materials, a used sewing machine, production costs, and international shipment. The document also discusses challenges of distribution in rural Cambodia and high price sensitivity among Cambodian customers.
B 2 aavishkarr building partnerships through fund raisingadhersdomain
The document outlines the typical steps an organization takes to build partnerships and raise funds. It discusses raising money first from individual investors, then private foundations, followed by government banks and local institutions. Next are development finance institutions who invest larger amounts. Finally, private and commercial investors may provide funding once the organization's reputation is strong. The key is demonstrating success with earlier investors to convince later investors to support the growing organization.
Aavishkaar II outlines Aavishkaar's strategy and learnings from its past investments. It set out to demonstrate the potential for venture capital investment in rural and bottom of the pyramid markets in India. Over time, it has refined its investment philosophy to focus on more scalable businesses with proven models, experienced entrepreneurs, and clearer paths to viability and growth. Moving forward, Aavishkaar will focus on strategically sowing, tending, and reaping investments across three stages, with an emphasis on mentoring early stage companies and helping more mature portfolio companies reach their full potential for social and financial impact.
A 2 ben simmes social environmental impact.pptadhersdomain
Oikocredit aims to achieve social impact through five pillars: 1) strengthening its own operations, 2) partnering with responsible microfinance institutions, 3) benefiting end-clients, 4) contributing to the microfinance sector, and 5) engaging investors. Key activities to support these pillars include conducting social audits of partners, promoting transparency and client protection, providing capacity building, and monitoring social performance data. The ultimate goals are empowering disadvantaged people through access to credit and promoting global social justice through socially responsible investing.
The document discusses ARUN's social impact monitoring of its social investments in Cambodia. It provides an overview of ARUN's vision to create social value through social investment. It then outlines the objectives of social impact monitoring as understanding investees' business, providing feedback to partners and investees. General due diligence criteria and monitoring indicators are presented. The monitoring methodology section discusses using logic models and stakeholder analysis. Finally, a case study of Sahakreas CEDAC's organic rice project is provided, highlighting its outcomes of reaching households and generating income while vitalizing the local economy.
Frangipani Villa Hotels is a boutique hotel company in Cambodia founded by three co-founders with backgrounds in architecture, design, finance, and operations. The company renovates heritage buildings to create unique boutique hotels while preserving Cambodian architecture and culture. Frangipani Villa Hotels' vision is to be a leading integrated hospitality experience in Cambodia and beyond through providing unique arts and hospitality experiences while taking social and environmental responsibility. Current projects include the Frangipani Royal Palace Hotel and plans for future expansion.
The document discusses social investment around the world. It provides statistics showing that socially responsible investment assets totaled €7,594 billion in Europe and $4,986 billion in the US. Impact investment is predicted to be $400 billion to $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Some of the major alliances and networks mentioned are the Global Impact Investing Network, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum. Examples are given of impact investment funds and the sectors and locations they invest in as well as outcomes achieved.
CEDAC established Sahakreas CEDAC (SKC) in 2009 to market organic rice and other products from farmers it supports. SKC procures organic rice from 2000 farmers, stores, mills, packages and distributes the rice domestically and internationally. CEDAC provides technical support to farmers to produce organic rice at lower costs. It aims to improve farmers' livelihoods, sustainable agriculture, and public health. It now plans to establish rice mill cooperatives to further integrate farmers and allow them to sell milled rice for higher prices.