Workshop on Venture Philanthropy
"Incubating Social Innovation"
30 March 2007 (Friday)
11.00 am – 1.00 pm
IPS Conference Room, 6th Floor (To get to IPS, please click here)
Synopsis
The world over, philanthropists, businesses and grant-making foundations now want to 'do good, well'. The voluntary and charitable sector is also discovering that it can 'do good' more effectively by exploring the use of business models, setting-up social enterprises.
This IPS-CAFO Workshop introduces a model of venture philanthropy where donors are actively engaged, as business angels, to the social enterprises they are trying to incubate.
The speakers will share a toolkit developed by Social Venture Partners (SVP) and use it as a starting point for discussion on the 'how tos' of establishing and operating a social venture fund. This workshop is targeted at program managers of businesses, wealth management firms and grant-making foundations.
About the speaker
We are pleased to present two speakers from Social Venture Partners (SVP). SVP's unique model uses a network of engaged donors that brings together social enterprises and other non-profit organisations alongside philanthropists to learn from each other and build capacity for positive community impact. Grant making and consulting work is done mainly by the donors themselves, so that they learn more about the social issues and values that drive the social enterprises they support, while those in the social enterprise gain the business skills needed to strengthen their own impact.
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Aaron Jacobs is the Senior Program Manager at Social Venture Partners Seattle (www.svpseattle.org), an affiliate of SVP International. In 2005-2006, SVP Seattle made possible, grants totalling USD$990,000. Cumulatively, they have successfully made available USD$9 million dollars worth of grants.
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Ken Ito is Director of Tokyo Social Ventures (SVT), a non-profit venture philanthropy organisation which provides, funding, management consulting services and training for capacity building to social-oriented businesses and non-profits. SVT was founded in 2003 and became the first international affiliate of Social Venture Partners in 2006.
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Programme
Downloads
Report: Workshop and Roundtable on Venture Philanthropy
For enquiries
If you have any queries, please contact Ms Jessamine Soo at tel: 6215-1019 or via email: vps2007@ips.org.sg
Roundtable on Venture Philanthropy and the Future of Social Entrepreneurship
There is also a Roundtable earlier that day, which introduces the concept of venture philanthropy. This discussion will focus on the value of such a concept, what one model of venture philanthropy looks like and whether, more generally, venture philanthropy will take-off in Singapore and the rest of Asian. The Roundtable is targeted at policy-makers in businesses, wealth management firms, grant-making foundations and relevant government offices.
About the organisers
The
Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) is a think-tank
dedicated to fostering good governance in Singapore through strategic
policy research and discussion. Its Politics and Governance research
cluster, headed by Dr Gillian Koh and Ms Jeanne Conceicao is actively
developing its study of the social entrepreneurship and social
enterprise sector in Singapore. This programme is an extension of that
work.
The
Consortium of Asian Foundations and Organizations (CAFO) is a
network of grant-making foundations and a wide range of civil society
organisations and civil society activists dedicated to developing new
models for collaborative action across Asian countries. It also
provides a platform for transnational, knowledge-driven advocacy on
issues that will help to facilitate the development of the sector to
bring greater social and cultural development to the region. It too
has an active group of members conducting research and advocacy on
social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in Asia.
