The word on SoCap08 is spreading. Social Entrepreneurs from all around the globe are looking for a chance to come to this important event to meet and learn from experienced enterpreneurs and investors. Please contact Amy if you are interested in sponsoring a social entrepreneur to attend the conference.

Assetmap.org's team of young social entrepreneurs needs your help!

Assetmap.org is a utility that helps you organize and leverage your available resources to achieve tangible goals. We're currently working with the Social Capital Markets planning team to develop a real-time connection program to help conference participants find the content and the people most relevant for their interests and endeavors.

To do this, however, we need to get our team of five to San Francisco! The SoCap08 conference producers have generously waived the registration fee, but we need your help to cover airfare. The team is comprised of undergrads and recent grads, each of whom has spent the last few years contributing to the development of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement, the student global project center in which Assetmap.org was born.

By using your frequent flyer miles or paying for a flight, you'll not only contribute to a more vibrant, connected community of practitioners, investors, and academics interested in blended value for a better world, but you'll help a group of young entrepreneurs take the next steps toward a life committed to long-term social change.

Brian Forde is the head of Llamadas Heladas, a chain of rural telephone call shops throughout Nicaragua. Using his experience as a Business-Technology Peace Corps Volunteer he has focused on developing technology to reduce the cost and open up access to the most common necessities of Bottom of the Pyramid consumers. Innovative new products such as Llamadas Pedaleadas, a pedal powered call shop, have been featured on CNN and on many blogs such as earth2tech and Buzz Yeah. Whether it is inexpensive phone calls, energy saving light bulbs, or a simplified way to fill out their US Tourist Visa, Llamadas Heladas' products and services are used everyday by thousands of Nicaraguans to help save money for important daily necessities.

Bhalchander Vishwanath is the founder and CEO of United Prosperity. Small entrepreneurs all over the world need funds to start and grow their businesses. Banks however don't lend to them without collateral. Small entrepreneurs cannot give collateral since they are often very poor. With United Prosperity anyone in the US can become a social guarantor by providing cash collateral on behalf of the entrepreneur on United Prosperity's website. The guarantee allows the entrepreneurs to access funds from local banks. United Prosperity will be launching in fall of 2008.

Bhalchander has 14 years' experience in information technology, insurance and financial services spanning multiple business functions including software development, marketing, sales, and operations in the US and India. Bhalchander has worked with Infosys, MphasiS (now an EDS company), Microsoft, Wipro and Tata Motors. He received a B.Tech from IIT-Bombay and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.

love.fútbol is a 501(c)3 social profit organization dedicated to the development of simple, safe soccer fields for children in impoverished communities worldwide. We envision a day when all children have the opportunity to fulfill their passion for soccer-the game is a catalyst for hope, youth development and inspiration.

Our methodology is community-driven: love.fútbol soccer fields serve as destinations for children to play soccer as well as lasting symbols of community strength and platforms for future development.

Through the simplicity of our mission, the universal passion that exists for soccer and the success we have experienced so far (learn more at www.lovefutbol.org), we believe love.fútbol is in a unique position to harness the exciting themes of social entrepreneurship.

Please help us send Drew Chafetz, Co-Founder and CEO, from our base in Washington, D.C. to the SoCap08 event!

Molly Day is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of campusCATALYST, an organization that builds capacity of nonprofits, communities, and the next generation of cross-sectoral leaders by engaging college and business school students in high-impact, pro-bono consulting services in partnership with community-based organizations. cC's vision is to create local change today while empowering tomorrow's leaders. In its first year, cC engaged over 100 college and business school students at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago who collaborated with 17 community-based organizations, generating over $180,000 worth of impact in the Chicago area. In its second year, cC is expanding its program offerings and developing local open-source Knowledge Networks to promote knowledge sharing between universities and communities, and more generally, to enhance community connectivity and collaboration. cC hopes to send Molly to SOCAP08 to meet other innovative entrepreneurs and social good champions who are blurring the boundaries between public and private.

As CEO of a 15-year old NGO, Urban Age Institute (UrbanAge.org), Gordon Feller leads a team of recognized innovators who help leaders - from independent, private, public sector - solve problems in interconnected fields.

For more than 30 years, Feller's been assisting leaders to build and develop innovative solutions. He's focused where economics, politics, sustainability meet for:

• nation-states (Canada; Germany; Japan)
• cities (Lyon; Paris; Yokohama)
• associations (CityNet; United Cities and Local Governments)
• annual leadership summits (Globe /Vancouver; World Urban Forum)
• non- profit research institutes (New America Foundation)
• universities (UCBerkeley)
• International agencies (WHO; UN; World Bank)
• corporations (Citigroup, Toyota, WS Atkins)
• foundations (Moore; Rockefeller Bros. Fund; Rockefeller Family)

Feller's "Meeting of the Minds" annually convenes a corporate and government leaders on sustainability. Sponsored by Toyota, Metropolis (world association of the mayors of the world's largest cities), and others. Oregon's Governor served as host/co-convenor.

While completing both degrees from Columbia, (both cum-laude), Feller received 5 fellowships.

Andrea Gram is founder and Executive Director of GreenRight, a startup nonprofit that bridges critical environmental, social justice, and economic issues:

In order to avoid the catastrophic effects of further environmental degradation, all strata of society must embrace the practice of green living. Yet a growing number of those at the bottom simply cannot afford to do so. GreenRight aims to address this problem by creating equal access to ecological information, goods, and services - regardless of socio-economic status. Its mission is to promote greater environmental quality for all by advancing the practice of green living for the underserved.

Ms. Gram brings with her a diverse background in business, art, and environmentalism. She has professional experience as a graphic artist as well as five years experience in business management. In addition to her valuable work experience, she has recently studied both nonprofit business and green design at James Madison University.