We are excited to announce the SOCAP Open sessions that will be presented at SOCAP15. The quality and quantity of submissions was impressive, as well as the enthusiastic response during the voting and commenting period. We received over 200 submissions, and some sessions garnered over 200 votes! An advisory panel reviewed all of the sessions and added their perspective on which sessions would be most relevant and valuable during this year’s conference. Public votes and advisory panel input helped the SOCAP Programming team to make the difficult decisions of selecting approximately 30 sessions to include at SOCAP15.

These sessions are now being further refined and developed by those who submitted them. We are excited to see the final product on stage October 6-9 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA. Here is a list of the selected session titles:

Conservation Enterprise: Addressing biodiversity loss at the source

Connected through Stories

Solving the Gaps in Design, Distribution & Financing for Rural & Artisan Enterprises in Emerging Markets

Forests & Water - Combating Drought & Forest Fires with Finance

Community Foundations as Leaders of Place-based Investing

Funding Fair Trade: Gaps & Opportunities in the Supply Chain

Climate Ventures 2.0: A Case Study in Public Private Partnerships

From Inventor to Entrepreneur

Opportunities for impact investors and social entrepreneurs in South Asia / East Africa

Overseas investments in land and agriculture: how to avoid land grabbing, and build local resiliency instead

Faith perspectives on impact investing

Investing in Worker Ownership

Investing in Storytelling to Drive Social Impact

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Accelerating Microbusinesses in Local Economies

Climate Change Investing: Three Important Considerations

Community-First Investing and a New Approach to Economic Disparity: Leading Practices from the Pacific Northwest

What Worth is Wealth: Leaving a Legacy of Impact

Impact Measurement: Views from the Experts

Social Intrapreneurs: Driving Scalable Innovation Inside Global NGOs

Powering Economies: The Future of Energy Infrastructure

The Intentionally Designed Endowment

Strength in Numbers: How networks of social enterprises can disrupt supply chains while creating jobs

Innovation Station: Designing New Business Models for Sustainability

New Ways For Startups To Do Good From The Start

Neighborhood Economics #DetroitRising

Launching the Next Generation of Innovators: Cultivating and Investing in Impact Ventures Emerging From Universities

Strong Ties, Big Impact: How to Construct Strategic Networks Around Founders

Build It And They Will Fund - Designing a funding model that fits your organization’s mission, creates new sources of revenue, and delivers the impact you seek

The New Superheroes: Global Tech Volunteers

Thank you to everyone who sent ideas and everyone who voted. We firmly believe that featuring content created and produced by our community is key to SOCAP’s impact, relevance and meaning. We hope you are as excited to see these panels as we are.

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