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...
by Erika Luitjens | Aug 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Capcon grantee LiveylHoods gave Capcon Founder & President Jon Freeman a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Visiting with Livelyhoods personnel in Kenya, Jon was thrown into the deep end as he was challenged to sell clean energy products door to door in an urban...