Episode 17: Interview with Susie Lee, chief investment officer at San Francisco-based RSF Social Finance, an innovative lending, giving and investing organization
In this podcast, Susie discusses RSF’s core integrated capital approach for delivering impact and catalyzing change. She also contrasts RSF’s “patient capital” approach with the transactional nature of commercial financing, details the kinds of support th
Episode 16: Interview with Echoing Green’s Min Pease: latest research on the key barriers entrepreneurs face in getting access to capital and the main types of support they require.
Min Pease leads the impact investing program at Echoing Green where she supports Echoing Green Fellows seeking or receiving impact investment. In large part, this involves getting social entrepreneurs...
Episode 15: Interview with Dr Emmett Carson, founding CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation,
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is the largest community foundation in the world, with more than $8 billion in assets under management. The community foundation serves the Silicon Valley...
Episode 14: Interview with Debra Schwartz, Managing Director of Impact Investments at the MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago, the Foundation makes grants and impact investments...
Episode 13: Interview with Kevin Barenblat, founder of the Fast Forward accelerator
Kevin Barenblat is a highly experienced software entrepreneur with a passion for applying technology for good. He is a big believer that talented people can leverage technology to create...
Episode 12 Interview with Clara Miller, President of the Heron Foundation: Going all in at the Heron Foundation
Clara Miller is President of the Heron Foundation, a US foundation that helps people and communities help themselves out of poverty. Heron began as a grant-maker 25 years ago.
Episode 24: Interview with Jed Emerson
Jed Emerson has been an influential leader in changing the way capital is invested in order to drive social...