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Tamzin Ractliffe is a precedent-setter. Her work creating a social investment exchange with SASIX, G6 and NeXii is changing how social projects are funded and implemented in South Africa and around the world. Hear her at ReVV describe what's next using technology to move mountains of money. Or, read her recent interview now.

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Dan Pallotta is a leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days and changed the fundamental paradigm for civic engagement in and fundraising for important social causes. Read More...

ReVisioning Value 2010: A chance to accelerate positive change

SAVE THE DATES! April 26, 27, in Portland, Oregon

How do we get the needed resources and talent for solving our most challenging problems? Government, traditional business, and charities can't do it all. This crossroads is an opportunity. Meet pioneers Tamzin Ractliffe, founder of SASIX, and Alex Counts, President of Grameen Foundation, and Don Shaffer, President and CEO of RSF Social Finance as they convene in Portland, Oregon to talk with you. What they're proposing will change the world, and change your mind.

It turns out, some individuals are fostering new approaches to solving problems. Community members and leaders like you are now involved, pushing the limits and asking hard questions. New types of investors are revising the defintion of value and profit, bringing new funding to change organizations. Brave nonprofits are trying on new strategies to generate stabilizing income. Passionate community members are addressing challenges as social entrepreneurs, taking on risks and the status quo at the same time. New legal corporate entities are emerging that may foster a "hybridizing" of business and charity. We really are at a crossroads, with promising paths in front of us. With few signposts to guide us, we get to create innovation here and now. But, we have to engage with each other. Join us in Portland, Oregon for a convergence of leadership, potential, and innovation.

ReVV 2010 will bring together leaders from the varied fields of impact investing and social innovation to share how new models for both are increasing the flow of capital to the creation of a more just and sustainable world. Learn how to accelerate what works.

Tired of the conference where you leave knowing how much you still have to learn? The one-day conference is followed by a day of hands-on strategic workshops designed to help participants apply the ideas offered at the conference to their own organizations as well as create real tools and strategies as an outcome.

ReVV 2010 will

  • Inform and inspire those interested in financing change through social investing
  • Provide information on how to create new kinds of change organizations, from nonprofits to social businesses
  • Create new tools, formats, structures for social action
  • Build the field for social innovation and sustainable communities

Who should attend?

The business of making change is changing. From microfinance to online social stock markets to social corporations, explore the global trends from the leaders. If you are a change leader, discover what kinds of opportunities are now open to you, from new funding partnerships to new organizational structures. If you are a community leader, learn what other communities are doing around the world to make their cities more supportive of social and ecological innovation.

  • Financial community, investors, banking, lending, foundations
  • People interested in sustainability and social change, activists
  • Leaders of mission-driven organizations, nonprofits, social businesses
  • People seeking to invest in change
  • Business leaders
  • Policy makers, decision-makers
  • Academics, students, researchers