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Dec 25, 2009
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." --Henry David Thoreau
Markets With A Social Mission
Around the world, social stock exchanges are launching to connect donors and investors with non-profits and businesses with a social mission, in the same way traditional markets present businesses and products to investors. "This is a cultural phenomenon," says Daniel Crisafulli, director of ecosystem investments and partnerships at the Skoll Foundation, a California-based philanthropic organization dedicated to social entrepreneurship. "You have a lot of people coming from business school, or the business sector, and they want to take their knowledge and the language they're comfortable with and bring it into the social sector."
BE THE CHANGE
What do you think of the potential for "compassionate capitalism"? Would you "invest"? Reflect on this, and consider in what way you might want to invest in goodness.
