5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 17TH/18TH NOVEMBER 2009

17 November

Members-Only Meeting (restricted access)

Evening Reception at Nieuwe Kerk

18 November

Opening Plenary

Social Enterprise: a new frontier for creating sustainable social change?

Breakout Sessions, 18 November

1. The Bottom Line: measuring and marketing social impact

2. European Social Enterprise: killer application or passing fad?

3. Scaling Up: bringing social enterprises to scale

VP Workshop

Everything you wanted to know about starting a VP fund, but were afraid to ask

Roundtables

1. The Long-Distance Relationship: managing international investments

2. Rising to the Climate Challenge

3. The Double Helix: the relationship between social entrepreneurs and venture philanthropists

4. The Financial Asset: fundraising for VPs in challenging times

5. Arts and Culture: VP’s Cinderella

6. Beyond Grants

7. Supporting Early-Stage Entrepreneurs

Closing Plenary

The One Foundation Story

Reflections and Wrap-up

The 5th Annual EVPA Conference, held at the headquarters of ABN AMRO Private Banking in Amsterdam on 17 and 18 November highlighted the work of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises and the role that venture philanthropy could play in supporting them. EVPA Chair Serge Raicher welcomed 350 delegates from 28 countries and put forward social enterprise as a model when other models had been put the test and often found wanting. EVPA itself was a social enterprise, he said, albeit operating on a different level from most. It was all about informing, connecting, engaging and having an impact – but the greatest of these is impact. If we don’t have an impact, he said, ‘all the rest is just noise.’

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