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San Francisco for Acumen (Official Chapter)

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San Francisco for Acumen (Official Chapter)

We're Acumen Fund's newest chapter and are hoping to launch a series of events around Acumen's mission of promoting patient capital. We'd love to connect like-minded people, be a hub for ideas in social entrepreneurship and raise money for Acumen!

Location: San Francisco
Members: 131
Latest Activity: 1 day ago

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Carrie Ting

SF for Acumen - Photo Auction & Benefit Kick-Off Planning Session (3/14)

San Francisco for Acumen is partnering with the Nuru Project to host the anticipated summer Photo Auction & Benefit! Nuru Project leverages photography as an agent for social change in the deve…

Tagged: sf, photography, nuru, auction, benefit

Started by Carrie Ting Mar 4.

Elizabeth Blase

Happy Hour & Microfinance in China - March 11, 2010

If you are interested in learning about an opportunity to be involved with China microfinance in the Bay Area, visit www.wokai.org and come to the Happy Hour event on March 11, 2010!

Started by Elizabeth Blase Mar 4.

Kim-Mai Cutler

The Life Investment: Sell Yourself to Change the World (NEXT WEEK!)

A few of our partners, HUB and SOCAP, are hosting a provocative discussion on March 3. It's about the Life Investment where entrepreneurs give up a share of their life's income in exchange for an upf…

Started by Kim-Mai Cutler Feb 23.

Jonathan Lai

RSVP for the SF Blue Sweater Talk (paperback book included!)

Hey Team,Be sure to sign up for the San Francisco Blue Sweater Talk on Feb 23rd - ticket price includes the special edition paperback copy of The Blue Sweater and a lot of other goodies.  Available f…

Tagged: talk, book, Sweater, Blue

Started by Jonathan Lai Jan 28.

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Mediha Abdulhay Comment by Mediha Abdulhay on March 8, 2010 at 11:59am
HI All -
The Monterey Institute of International Studies is hosting an International Trade Conference on Opportunities and Strategies in Emerging Economies on Friday, March 12th. For more info:

http://blogs.miis.edu/tradeconference/

Bringing together stakeholders in the fields of trade policy, business, and human development to enhance knowledge of and create constructive dialogue around the global trends shaping international trade policy, business innovation, and social ventures in emerging economies.
Rosie Sharp Comment by Rosie Sharp on February 24, 2010 at 6:15pm
Great meeting you all at the Blue Sweater discussion yesterday! It was great sharing thoughts and learning about all of your great work!

Hope to see some Acumen SF members at the Life Investment event (hosted by HUB and SOCAP) next week! http://lifeinvestment.eventbrite.com/
Taylor Bollman Comment by Taylor Bollman on February 24, 2010 at 6:02pm
This week is Entrepreneurship week at Stanford. There are some great conferences, some on social entrepreneurship. Here's the link: http://eweek.stanford.edu/index.html

I'll be there Fri and Sun if anyone goes.
Mediha Abdulhay Comment by Mediha Abdulhay on February 24, 2010 at 12:01pm
Hi All -

I overhead that Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club tomorrow night (2/25) at 6pm. Looks like tickets are still available. I've copied the link here:

https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&shcode=1608
Caroline Kim Comment by Caroline Kim on January 12, 2010 at 1:40pm
Hi everyone!

I'm part of the LA-based Acumen Group but also participate in WAM SF :)

Cheers
Caroline
Jonathan Lai Comment by Jonathan Lai on January 4, 2010 at 4:22am
Happy new year all! Look out for a message this week about an exciting new event we have coming up - we're going to hold a planning session to recruit volunteers for an Acumen SF activities committee. Stay tuned!
Paulina_SEA Comment by Paulina_SEA on December 28, 2009 at 11:28am
Apologies to all! I just sent a message to all members of this group thinking that it would only reach the administrators.

Best regards to all! Paulina
Carrie Ting Comment by Carrie Ting on November 17, 2009 at 11:35pm
Hello SF Chapter! Tomorrow night (11/18), the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) is hosting an event in San Francisco on microfranchising, and one of the speakers is past Acumen Fund Fellow David Lehr. Please see the event link for details:

http://community.acumenfund.org/xn/detail/3957399:Event:8777?xg_source=activity
Kim-Mai Cutler Comment by Kim-Mai Cutler on November 17, 2009 at 12:19pm
Looks good Taylor --> make it an event?
Taylor Bollman Comment by Taylor Bollman on November 17, 2009 at 11:39am
This evening Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is hosting:
New Models of Effective Philanthropy in the 21st Century

Looks good. Info at link below.
http://pacscenter.stanford.edu/events
 

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Kim-Mai Cutler Lauren Finzer Madhu Chamarty Jonathan Lai Katie T. Lindsay Meyer Taylor Bollman Yasmina Zaidman Raina Marie Beichert Margaret Krummel Arshad Syed kevin Jones Ellen Lichtig Tonya Brilon Umang Jaipuria Elizabeth Blase Carrie Ting Stephanie Lai Brad Presner Jo-Ann Tan Suzanne Price Molly Alexander Aden Van Noppen Lucy Jacobs Brian Murray Mediha Abdulhay James Wu Alexandra Wang Lucky Gunasekara
 
 

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