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From the world of the market-based fight against poverty
Renewing Our Grant to Street Business School
Our multi-year grant to Street Business School had proved a worthwhile investment. Since our original grant in 2020, the organization has continued to go the extra mile to further their mission, which is to bring entrepreneurial training to women all over the globe,...
Miller Center: A Long Track Record of Lifting Up Social Enterprises
A central component of CapCon’s world view is that the best way to help others is to equip them with the tools to help themselves. It’s a philosophy we share with the Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University, and a key reason that we have offered our...
New Hope for Girls: Moving Forward
Stonecrest is very pleased to be able to make our second grant in support of New Hope for Girls, an organization that operates in Tanzania and assists women and girls who have been marginalized by society. Their vision is that the girls will become empowered,...
Ituze Center: Finding Ways to Scale Impact
When Stonecrest first partnered with Ituze Center in 2020, we had high hopes but modest expectations. Our investment was based on a core belief at Stonecrest: that mindfulness and meditation are vital components in healing the effects of trauma. And in Kigali, Rwanda,...
The Power of Breath
Communities impacted by large-scale conflict bear the visible scars in the form of mass destruction, injuries, and loss of life. But often the emotional scars, while less obvious, can be equally devastating and longer-lasting. As CapCon approaches the question of...
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...