From the Global Entrepreneurship Summit

          Cathy Clark of CASE i3 was invited by the US State Department as a delegate at the Obama Administration’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi in July, 2015. While there, she moderated a panel on global health in Africa entitled, “Enabling Scale: Building a Global Health Ecosystem for Impact.” The panel explored Read more about From the Global Entrepreneurship Summit[…]

CASE Chat: Michael MacHarg

Michael MacHarg is Senior Advisor, Social Ventures for Mercy Corps; co-founder of the for-profit social venture, Simpa Networks; and, a member of the CASE i3 Advisory Council. In this CASE Chat, Mike talks about impact investing, tri-sector leadership, and offers advice for budding social entrepreneurs. Brought to you by the Center for the Advancement of Read more about CASE Chat: Michael MacHarg[…]

Video: Impact Investing Fuqua Faculty Chat

On April 29, 2015, CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark did a live webinar chat through a YouTube live stream on the topics of Impact Investing and Tri-Sector Leadership. This was part of Fuqua’s Faculty Conversation Series. Questions were submitted by email and twitter and Cathy answered them for about an hour. Highlights include: What are Read more about Video: Impact Investing Fuqua Faculty Chat[…]

Blog: The Triumphs and Tribulations of Impact Investing

Huge thanks to Kyle Zimmer and Jane Robinson from First Book for writing this great HuffingtonPost blog on our event in Oxford last week. They wrote about two big hurdles for impact investing: risk and access. An excerpt from their blogpost: Both the triumphs and the growing pains of “impact investing” were on display in Read more about Blog: The Triumphs and Tribulations of Impact Investing[…]

Video: SEAD wins AshokaU Cordes Innovation Award

Duke’s Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (called SEAD, which stands for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke), was proud to accept the  2015 Ashoka U Cordes Innovation Award. Funded by USAID’s Global Development Lab and part of the agency’s Higher Education Solutions Network, SEAD brings students and faculty into the lessons and challenges of scaling global health innovations. Read more about Video: SEAD wins AshokaU Cordes Innovation Award[…]

Event: Tri-Sector Leadership Workshop

A fantastic workshop was held on April 8, 2015 by CASE at Fuqua, led by Matthew Thomas of Prospect Madison. Business, policy and other Duke grad students discussed their motivations and sector skill strengths, and worked to understand how to transfer them across sectors to achieve their personal and professional goals.  There were some great surprises Read more about Event: Tri-Sector Leadership Workshop[…]

Event: SEAD Summit 2015

The 2015 SEAD Summit and Symposium were a huge success! Over 40 global health innovators from East Africa and India joined the CASE and IPIHD teams at the Fuqua School of Business in Durham on March 18-20, 2015 for workshops, peer learning sessions and 1:1 meetings on scaling strategies, impact evaluation, financing and much more. Read more about Event: SEAD Summit 2015[…]

10th Annual SBSI Conference with Perez and Repogle

  February 11, 2015. At the 10th Annual Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference, CASE i3 hosted an expert panel on impact investing, ran a workshop on Tri-Sector Leadership, and joined the rest of Fuqua in welcoming US Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez and Seventh Generation CEO John Repogle to campus. View their speeches Read more about 10th Annual SBSI Conference with Perez and Repogle[…]

REPORT: The Invisible Heart of Markets by G8 Taskforce

September 15, 2014. A historical day as the Social Impact Investing Taskforce established by the G8 released its findings alongside 7 country reports and prepares to release an additional 4 theme reports. Access all of the reports on our “CASE i3 100: Top Reads” page. What new skills are required to answer the report’s call to Read more about REPORT: The Invisible Heart of Markets by G8 Taskforce[…]