by Erika Luitjens | Jul 26, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
CapCon’s long association with the Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) Accelerator inspires a new partnership for CapCon. Like many businesses worldwide, some of the social enterprises which have been through the Miller Center’s GSBI Accelerator program were faced...
by Erika Luitjens | Jul 26, 2020 | Children, Education, Entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
In its ongoing mission to find market-based solutions to alleviate global poverty, CapCon is drawn to organizations that adhere to the “hand up, not a handout” philosophy. Street Business School is just such an organization. CapCon has provided a 3-year grant to...
by Erika Luitjens | Jul 26, 2020 | Education, Uncategorized
As the largest & most successful university-based social enterprise accelerator in the world, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship has learned a great deal about how to help social enterprises thrive. But even among Miller Center Global Social Benefit...
by Erika Luitjens | Jun 27, 2020 | Education, Healthcare, Uncategorized
In 2017, CapCon underwrote the creation of an organization in Kigali, Rwanda, called the Ituze Mindfulness and Yoga Center. The mission of this for-profit organization was a seemingly modest goal of providing meditation and yoga instruction to the general population...
by Erika Luitjens | Aug 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Street Business School, a Capcon Foundation grantee, has partnered with Spring Impact to co-author a three-part blog series. The series will examine the Street Business School’s approach to scale and explore the experiences and issues that organizations may face when...
