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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

Karolina opened the session with an enlightening overview of the SDG Philanthropy Platform , delving into the dollars grantmakers fund towards the SDGs. IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Key takeaways.