GreaterCapital attended the launch of the Fiduciary Duty in the 21st century report compiled by the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), UNEP Finance Initiative and Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, and the United Nations Global Compact.
The Centre for Learning, Evaluation. Assessment and Results (CLEAR) in partnership with E.T Jackson Associates, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Wits School of Governance facilitated a workshop on the Evaluation of Impact Investing from October 26th – 27th, 2015.
This two-day executive training is for investment professionals looking to refine their mastery of how financial risk tools can best be applied to construct a portfolio of sustainable and well-governed high-growth companies in emerging markets.
The Social Enterprise Academy is an international learning organization. Over 8,000 learners and 1,600 organizations have been through its programmes.
The 2015 Job Losses and Service Cuts survey has offered some useful insight into the state of the South African NPO sector in the wake of the serious funding challenges of the last few years. While the funding environment still appears to represent a critical threat for the NPO sector, the survey findings suggest that the funding situation and the sector’s response has stabilised in some key areas. Encouragingly, organisations have illustrated that they are learning to adapt and respond to challenges.
This year, the Western Cape Government will run the third annual Premier’s Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards. We are calling on Western Cape entrepreneurs to enter this prestigious business competition.
On Wednesday 12th August we had the pleasure of attending the first Women in Philanthropy event in Khayelitsha.
From the 29th to the 31st of July, GreaterCapital participated in the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Academy on Social Solidarity and the Social Economy centered on social innovation in the world of work.
GreaterCapital attended the 3rd United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, intended to draw attention to and develop strategies for financing the Sustainable Development Goals.
The role of market-based solutions in addressing societal needs has been a hotly debated topic, especially in education.
