Fran Seegull - Social Entrepreneurs: Deploying assets to empower agents of change

The second event in our Fall 2011 Educational Series "The Blueprint of Impact Investing".

Fran Seegull discusses some of the emerging ways to effectively deploy capital by empowering the growing sector of social entrepreneurship. Fran is the Managing Director of Investments at ImpactAssets (http://www.impactassets.org) where she leads investment management and product development. She also serves as Senior Fellow at the Society and Business Lab at USC's Marshall School of Business.

The Eleos Foundation and Eleos Investment Management LLC, invests in and partners with social entrepreneurs that effectively implement high impact, early stage, pioneering market based solutions in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty"

Educate: Eleos works with social investors and entrepreneurs to cultivate a learning community, providing regular opportunities to share outcomes through dialogue, seminars and recurrent communication.

Empower: Eleos develops and facilitates partnerships with social entrepreneurs, negotiating on their side of the table empowering them to get to scale and attract the necessary capital investment.

Engage: Eleos provides opportunities for co-investors to invest in funds at the forefront of pioneering markets. Eleos undertakes the necessary due diligence, creates investment vehicles and forges the connections between investors and social entrepreneurs.

To learn more visit:
http://www.theeleosfoundation.com

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