It’s been a whirlwind following SoCap08. Due to the overwhelming response of the market calling for events based around social capital, we are moving forward as a new company: Social Capital Media (SoCap Media for short). It’s an interesting position to be in a start-up company focused on what some might deem a start-up sector. We are making choices based on a newly evolving constituency that will continually grow and evolve as new players come into the field. We are putting together our online strategy for a new website, discussion forum and events schedule and we want to hear what you are looking for and what would be most beneficial. What sectors are we missing in looking at the social capital landscape? Who else should be at the table? Here’s the list we have so far:
- Beyond MFI: Bringing transparency to microfinance and MFIs. Taking microfinance to the next level (microinsurance etc)
- Impact Analysts: Setting standards and common terminology around measuring organization and program impact across sectors of the social capital market space
- ICT: Bringing Information and Communication Technology to the developing world: Bridging the digital divide
- Family Office/Wealth Managers: Making the wide array of screened portfolios and socially responsible investments more widely understood among family offices and wealth managers
- Screened Portfolio/Public Equity: Giving individuals, sustainable businesses, nonprofits and foundations knowledge about socially responsible investing in public capital markets, community investing and shareholder advocacy
- Young Social Entrepreneurs: Young millennials changing the world
- Clean Tech/Policy Influencer: Representing advances in tech agriculture, sustainable food production/distribution, local & state farm policies
- NGO/Nonprofit: Those nonprofits who are working to effectively stabilize the developing world and build ground for the development of a social capital marketplace
- International Government: Gov’t institutions venturing into SRI and funders who work with them. Research being done by the gov’t to realize the space
- Social Connectors: Individuals who disseminate information online, act as symbols of their field and bring people together to discuss and partner
- Landscape/Mapping: Showing where all constituents fall on the social capital landscape to give a visual picture of the work being done
- Domestic Government: Showcase how public and private institutions are working together to further social enterprise and funnel needed investment dollars to the social capital domestic market
-Foundations: Moving foundation funds towards SRI and screened portfolios
- Fair Trade: Showcasing how fair trade products are sound investments and the proven success record of fair trade organizations
- Corporate Social Responsibility: How corporations are taking the triple bottom line into account
- Infrastructure: Organizations putting in place metrics to show that the social capital marketplace is real and growing and safe to invest in
We’re excited to be working on this project and look forward to collaborating with the community.We hope to put together events that will breed effective partnerships and advance the social capital sector. We hope to act as a hub of content generation and pathological collaboration. The future looks very bright from here.
“When the water starts boiling, it is foolish to turn off the heat” - Nelson Mandela
