Social Finance
Friday, October 23, 2009
Social Venture Network Conference, La Jolla, CA
Shaula will be speaking on a panel about financing sustainable startups and how to approach early investors so they remain your friends and family after the second round.
Global Cooperatives
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Get Your SLICE: Strengthening Local Independent Cooperatives Everywhere Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle. 9-5pm
Shaula will be part of an afternoon panel talking about examples of cooperatives from around the globe. One of her favorite people, Alistair Williamson of Equal Exchange, will be speaking at the conference also! Totally worth the admission price!
Read Mondragon's 2008 annual report from their website.
Download Shaula's slides.
Article in YES Magazine
June, 2009. Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives decide how to ride out a downturn.
Coauthored with Georgia Kelly, a founder of Praxis-Peace and the organizer of the trip to visit Mondragon.
Creating your own Green Stimulus Package
Tuesday, April 28, 2009. 6:30 pm
REI Seattle, South Meeting Room
222 Yale Ave. N.
Shaula was part of a panel on how you can have a green impact with your time and money. Moderated by Aaron Fairchild and organized by Social Venture Partners.
Social Venture Capital Investment Competition
The 2009 SVCIC took place at the University of North Carolina the last weekend of March and NWSRI was represented as part of the judges panel. Read some gleanings from that experience here.
Mondragon Public Talk
Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 6:30 PM
Fremont Public Library meeting room directions
731 N. 35th St. Seattle, WA 98103
Between Fremont Ave N. and the Aurora bridge on N. 35th.
This event is not sponsored by The Seattle Public Library
Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa - I had a chance to visit in the fall of 2008 on a trip organized by the Praxis Peace Institute
and I was suitably impressed. Mondragón is a modern global
conglomerate, complete with businesses across multiple industries,
intenational subsidiaries, educational and financial arms and in 2007
it earned 16 billion in revenue. Mondragón is also employee-member
governed --one person one vote-- and distributed 51% of their profits to
employee members.
The corporate website
is a rich source of information available in multiple languages. I
particularly recommend "The History of an Experience" -- a 50+ page pdf of
their history-- and the current annual report.
Also joining us will be David Smathers Moore of the TeamWorks cooperative which is inspired by Mondragón.
Women and Investing
Shaula was interviewed as part of a
series called The Power of Yin at the fall 2008 Investors Circle
conference. Hear and see what she has to say about the mix of angel
investing, being a women investor and bringing in the social through a
series of videos posted online here. There's nearly an hour of video, but it's broken up into segments.
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