The Latest CapCon News
From the world of the market-based fight against poverty
CapCon Steps in to Help GSBI Graduates in Covid19 Crisis
CapCon’s long association with the Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) Accelerator inspires a new partnership for CapCon.
CapCon Issues 3-year Grant to Street Business School
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...
CapCon Backs Miller Center Replication and Scaling Initiative
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...
Checking In With Ituze
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...
Is “Financial Sustainability” Being Hijacked
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...
Jon Freeman Goes Door to Door With LivelyHoods
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...
Capcon Lends Support to Refugees of Congolese Violence
Capcon is actively supporting the Enough Project, whose mission is to “support peace and an end to mass atrocities in Africa’s deadliest conflict zones”. Enough Project’s Founding Director John Prendergast has recently brought the organization’s focus to bear on...
GSBI Accelerator Program
CapCon proudly supports the Miller Center at Santa Clara University, and would like to acknowledge the great work being done by the Global Social Benefit Accelerator (GSBI). GSBI is a program which typically supports organizations that have been in operation for 5+...
The Latest from Mama Hope
Capcon grantee Mama Hope has been busy! Here are a few details on what they've been up to. First, an article was published recently by Global Advocate Elise Pitcairn with some thoughtful and in-depth reflection on her work with CapCon grantee Mama Hope. We wanted to...
Why Gold and Mercury Don’t Mix
CapCon Pitches in to Help Prevent Mercury Poisoning Among Gold Miners in Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Capcon joined a coalition of government officials, international financing institutions, and private companies at the Mercury-Free Artisanal Gold Mining...