We’re looking at April in Washington D.C. A more intimate gathering; social capital, government and philanthropy. If social capital is real, how does it play alongside philanthropy and alongside public capital?

Was talking to the staff of a social enterprise today. They accomplish a lot of good. But I have seen chronic instability in the CFO and COO ranks as the visionary leader travels he world. I suggested that showed a gap in the leadership or maturity of the organization. They said their leader was figure on the world stage. I agreed. But I added that until I saw the results of what they say is newfound seriousness and consistent followthrough in the new operational and financial leadership, I was not that interested in his global stature of the visionary, however it might be growing. Hero’s don’t grow enterprises.

Chris Morrison of Venture Beat wrote an interesing piece exporling the emerging phenomena of blended value business in the context of SoCap08 and Good Capital.

“While most philanthropic ventures still operate solely as non-profits, there’s a growing niche for the new breed. That’s because, as Elizabeth Funk of Unitus put it while speaking at the conference, “greed is one of the fundamental drivers of humanity.” For-profit businesses have a drive that was long ago lost in the sprawling bureaucracies of traditional aid groups.”

Greed as a potential driver of good - agree or disagree?

Linktv.org has posted the footage from the “Social Capital Markets Roundtable” with Jed Emerson of Blended Value, Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital, Matthew Bishop of The Economist and Kevin Jones of Good Capital, as well as the “Social Capital Markets 101″ panel with Megha Doshi, previously of KLD Research, Josh Becker of New Cycle Capital and Tim O’Shea of Cleanfish.

Here is a great piece that ABC news did on SoCap08, including interviews from Kevin Jones and Tim Freundlich of Good Capital and Jim Fruchterman of Benetech.

We ran a breakdown of SoCap08 Participants who have thus far signed up for the Connection Concierge system. So far, 469 out of over 600 attendees are participating in the Connection Concierge program! If you attended SoCap08 and have not yet filled out your profile, visit www.connectionconcierge.org

Stay tuned for further drilled down data around asset classes and regional areas of interest.

SoCap08 Attendee Breakdown:
Number of attendees who identify themselves as:
Academics – 71
Consultants – 156
Donor/Philanthropist – 36
Entrepreneur – 250
Foundation – 46
Government/Legal – 11
Investor – 118
Media – 43
Speakers – 61
Wealth Manager – 11
Other – 81

Number of attendees interested in:
Market-rate returns - 250
Unconventional returns - 307
Philanthropic rate (no return) - 234
Equity - 375
Debt - 285
Grants – 300

Market-rate returns for equity – 239
Market-rate returns for debt – 176
Unconventional rate returns for equity – 265
Unconventional rate returns for debt – 219

Number of attendees interested in:
Agriculture  - 116
Clean and Green Tech – 220
Community Development – 227
Education/youth – 201
Energy – 165
Fair trade and organic products – 139
Housing – 84
ICT – 128
Media – 110
Microfinance and beyond – 217
Public Health – 138
Social Enterprise – 320
Sustainable development - 253
Web2,0 - 152

Link TV, one of media sponsors, has begun posting footage from SoCap08. The first of many coming videos is Katherine Fulton’s keynote address posted here at linktv.org. Katherine spoke to the complexities of the financial times and how social capital markets play into the future of investing for impact.

“In my opinion, we still have a long way to go in bringing together these diverse perspectives into a coherent set of responses, but this was a good start that the group committed to building on.” say the folks at Social Finance CA

The “New Wealth Management” panel footage up on FORA.tv has already been viewed 441 times! Check out the full list of SoCap08 videos up with more to come. Link TV will also be starting to post videos shortly