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  • The BBC Forum @ Skoll 2012

    Social enterprises usually support worthy causes but how can a powerful investor and a vulnerable small business in need of funding really have a partnership of equals? And how do outside innovators avoid the trap of imposing outside ideas on communities keen to preserve their traditions and their own vision?

    Bridget Kendall is joined on stage at the Saïd Business School by UNICEF’S Geeta Rao Gupta, and two social entrepreneurs, William Foote and Brizio Biondi-Morra. Plus a lively audience ready to share thoughts, doubts and experience.

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  • “What Microloans Miss"

    This article from The New Yorker (March 17, 2008) explains why small-to medium-sized enterprise finance is important, and how it addresses the gap left by microfinance.

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  • IRIS Data Report

    Root Capital proudly contributed performance data for analysis in the first IRIS data report released by the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) initiative of the Global Impact Investing Network. IRIS is a common language for defining, tracking, and reporting the social, environmental, and financial performance of an organization. IRIS is a free public good.

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  • Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

    By Anthony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson

    The book charts the path of a new industry, explaining how impact investing is and can be a positive disruptive force.

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  • Keynote Speech, Harvard Social Enterprise Conference

    William Foote, Keynote, Harvard Social Enterprise Conference, February, 2011

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  • Speech: Root Capital: Pioneering Rural Finance for the Missing Middle

    William Foote, Root Capital: Pioneering Rural Finance for the Missing Middle, TEDxBYU, April 2011

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  • Speech: Innovation as a Game Changer

    Brian Milder, Innovation as a Game Changer, Gain Impact Business Alliance Forum, Vienna, November 2011.

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  • Speech: Making Capital and Markets Work for Small-Scale Farmers in Developing Countries

    William Foote, Making Capital and Markets Work for Small-Scale Farmers in Developing Countries, Marion Institute, November 2011.

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