Social Entrepreneurship and Micro Finance, featuring speakers from Echoing Green, Frogtek, and Treetops Capital. Pioneers in their respective fields, our guest speakers will share their front-line perspectives about sustainable and innovative solutions that are driving social change around the world.<\/p>\n
Echoing Green<\/strong><\/span> is a global social venture fund that invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. To date, Echoing Green has invested over $28 million in seed funding to over 471 social entrepreneurs and their innovative organizations.<\/p>\n Frogtek<\/strong><\/span> is a for-profit social venture dedicated to creating business tools for micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Frogtek develops software applications for small retail shops, restaurants and other micro-retailers that can be run on mobile phones and are designed specifically for customers at the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid.<\/p>\n Treetops Capital<\/strong><\/span> is a fund management and financial advisory company that has a dual objective of providing market returns and increasing access to financial services to under-banked communities in emerging markets. Treetops Capital invests in microfinance institutions and other financial institutions that serve the micro, small, and medium business sector in emerging markets.<\/p>\n Location: Taipei Economic and Culture Office (TECO) Agenda:<\/span> 6 – 7 pm : Cocktail Reception & Networking Fee:<\/span> $5 if RSVP, $10 at the door<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/span><\/p>\n Mailande Moran:<\/strong> Social Investment Council Manager, Echoing Green<\/p>\n David del Ser:<\/strong> Founder & CEO, Frogtek and Echoing Green Fellow<\/p>\n Luca Torre:<\/strong> Founding Partner, Treetops Capital<\/p>\n Moderator:<\/strong> Christine P. Chan: Social Investment Council Member, Echoing Green<\/p>\n Co-Sponsors:<\/strong> ATANY, CAAPS, NATMA 2G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social Entrepreneurship and Micro Finance, featuring speakers from Echoing Green, Frogtek, and Treetops Capital. Pioneers in their respective fields, our guest speakers will share their front-line perspectives about sustainable and innovative solutions that are driving social change around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2192,2193,2191,2196,2329,2328,2194,2327,2195],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-atany","tag-caaps","tag-echoing-green","tag-frogtek","tag-mailande-moran","tag-micro-finance","tag-natma-2g","tag-social-entrepreneurship","tag-treetops-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1 E. 42nd Street (corner of 5th Ave)
\nNew York, NY US
\nWhen: Wednesday, February 24, 6:00PM<\/p>\n
\n7 – 8 pm : Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship<\/p>\n