Impact Academy: In Portland, Erie, Nairobi & Boulder

Foundations, Sprint/Marathon + Impact Investing Education Series

Introducing Impact Academy

Impact investing is a hot mess right now - manyfounders/CEOs and impact investors/impact practitionersare working diligently to build businesses that create meaningful change, but it's complex, to find a revenue model or an investment opportunity, that is financially wise and impactful.

Through Impact Academy, a suite of impact-focusededucation programs, TenX + Northwest Social VentureFund can help.

Orientation - Dial In / Access

Join us for an orientation webinar for all Impact Academy programs, on Monday, October 6th, 8am Pacific / 9 am Mountain / 11 am Eastern / 6 pm EAT:

Dial-In: 209.255.1000Access Code: 913583#

You can also access slides for the call, at:http://slidesha.re/1vEaG7D

Revenue or Impact? - Yes!

There are tradeoffs, but it doesn't always have to be one-or-the-other anymore. The hybrid space is gaining traction, however, many entrepreneurship and investment organizations aren't yet set up to understand or assist innovators, investors and practitioners, to maximize business, professional, and investment opportunities in this new space.

Capital providers are getting warmed up to do impact deals, but there is a lot of risk, and a lot to get done, so that impact investing delivers on ROI + scalable mission impact.

From our perspective, the bottom line is that revenue and impact can work together, to maximize what any entrepreneur, investor, or organizationcan do, to build self-sufficient, profitable organizations that address market needs and humanitarian challenges.

Navigating the Jungle of Impact

501(c)3 or LLC? Charge for a service or give it away? Invest effort and resources in this opportunity or that one? Collaborate with a nonprofit organization or offer business transactions with for-profit partners?

We really, really get it. It's a JUNGLE out there, right now. And, we're here to help individuals and organizations to navigate those choices, find a model that makes sense based on personal or organizational priorities, and to move forward.

Impact Academy offers three ways to navigate entrepreneurship, impact, & investment, whether through one-off workshops, startup acceleration for early stage for-profit, nonprofit AND hybrid entities, or hands-on impact investing training for philanthropists, investors, and professionals.

Meet the Facilitators: Carolynn Duncan

Carolynn Duncan is the Founding Partner of the Northwest Social Venture Fund and TenX, an

impact venture fund and startup accelerator that focuses on reducing suffering in the world

through maximizing social & financial returns, by investing in scalable social businesses. A

popular speaker and thought leader, Carolynn has been featured on Forbes, Wall Street

Journal, New York Times, Entrepreneur.com, Read Write Web, GeekWire, Sustainable

Business Oregon, Oregon Business Magazine, Portland Business Journal, and has spoken,

mentored, or judged at events for Keiretsu Forum Impact, TEDx, Elevating Impact, Mercy Corps

Tech4Change, Startup Weekend, The Indus Entrepreneurs, the White House Business Council,

Startup America, WebVisions, and IMN Impact Investing Summit. She is passionate about

humanitarian work and the intersection of impact capital + scalable social entrepreneurship.

Meet the Facilitators: Daniel Claussen

Daniel Claussen is well-known as an enviropreneur, and has advised investors, foundations, non-profits and social ventures on impact investing, impact strategy and communications. A mix of cross-sector expertise, entrepreneurial acumen and exceptional EQ, his work encompasses leading high-impact programs to helping start-up ventures launch and scale to structuring and fund-raising impact investment transactions. Daniel has demonstrated expertise in spearheading projects with rigor and creativity, resulting in the placement of $35M in the fields of the environment, health and education.

Be it developing bottom-of-the-pyramid investment strategies or helping early-stage social ventures

with strategy and seed funding, Daniel works tirelessly to advance social change through helping the

innovators of this generation to thrive, and has had a catalytic role to drive impact investment and

innovation at Impact Driven, Living GREEN Foundation, Arsenault Family Foundation, Prize Capital

and XPrize Foundation, and Ayzh.

Meet the Facilitators: Allison Deverman Vietor

Allison Deverman Vietor's career in impact investing began as an intrapreneur at Mercy Corps, an internationally known non-profit disaster relief and economic development organization with 4,000+ employees, a $300MM+ annual budget and operations in over 40 countries. She has helped raise $42M for a Mercy Corps fund and startup development in Egypt, formed dozens of Mercy Corps subsidiaries and social enterprises, and managed governance on a portfolio of over 35 related entities including microfinance and banking institutions. Allison founded Tech4Change, a Mercy Corps + Startup Weekend partnership, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs, to help nonprofit program managers, social enterprise founders, and tech founders understand how to take a social impact idea from pitch to execution, in a fast-paced, experiential learning environment. Allison co-founded Audioname, the Startup Weekend Portland 2011 winner, and co-organized Startup Weekends in Portland, OR and Harare Zimbabwe. She is a Board Member for Voice for Oregon Innovation and Sustainability (VOIS),

serving double and triple bottom line businesses, and holds an MBA from the #1 U.S. university for entrepreneurship, Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Impact Foundations

Impact Foundations is a series of interactive workshops and talks with seasoned impact practitioners, that explore start-up, intrapreneurial and non-profit models that combine the best of business and technology solutions to expand impact in our communities. We review fundamentals of turning ideas into an actionable roadmap, setting and evaluating milestones, funding planning, mission and impact metrics, and a general survey of the impact + entrepreneurship landscape.

Workshop prices are $50 (entrepreneur/student rate) or $65 (general attendees). Join us in Portland (10/8), Erie (10/13), Nairobi (10/22), and Boulder (11/6), or via Google Hangout/Skype, register by contacting carolynn@nwsvf.org.

Impact Sprint + Marathon

Impact Sprint + Marathon, are two peer-mentorship driven, advisor-led educational programs that help social impact founders/CEOs and innovators start & scale up hybrid, social impact, nonprofit, or for-profit business models that do well, and do good.

Participants work for 6 or 12 weeks in a dynamic peer environment, to tackle revenue targets, set & accomplish aggressive milestones and operate more efficiently with whatever resources are available.

Impact Sprint is for businesses & nonprofits under $100K in annual revenue, Impact Marathon is for businesses & nonprofits over $100K in annual revenue. Information about tuition, scheduling, and Milestones information is available by request.

Join us in Portland or any other city via Google Hangout / Skype - register by contactinginfo@tenx.org.

Impact Investing Education Series

Impact Investing Education Series: Philanthropic investors, fund managers, and philanthropists are seeking new ways to spur positive social change beyond donations, with the possibility of an upside.

Young or transitioning professionals with either nonprofit or forprofit experience are looking to break into impact investing, and trying to understand how to look critically at a venture for financial and impact potential, and navigate professional and personal development in this new space. All participants choose 6-12 Milestones to further personal goals while participating in the learning experience.

Program fees are $1,000 for 6 weekly 2-hour workshops + 3 months of hands on activities learning about impact. Join us in Portland or Boulder, or any other city, via Google Hangout / Skype - register by contacting carolynn@nwsvf.org.

Impact Foundations: Locations & Time

We would love to see you this fall, as we work with communities in Portland, Oregon; Erie, Pennsylvania, Nairobi, Kenya, and Boulder, Colorado, to take social impact work to another level. Join the conversation at the dates/venues below! Please RSVP by contacting carolynn@nwsvf.org to confirm participation and event registration.

Portland, Oregon: October 8th, 2-5pm at NedSpace, $50 for current entrepreneurs, $65 for

general attendance.

Erie, Pennsylvania: October 13th, 5-9pm at Non-Profit Day Conference, $89 for NPP members,

$129 for general attendance. This session is planned and sponsored in conjunction with the Erie

Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership and the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority.

Registration is available at http://bit.ly/1sLpm60

Nairobi, Kenya: October 22nd, 1-4pm, event registration by invite only - please contact

carolynn@nwsvf.org.

Boulder, Colorado: November 6th, 5-8pm, Hub Boulder, $50 for current entrepreneurs, $65 for

general attendance.

Get Involved In Tech + Impact for Good, with TenX & Northwest Social Venture Fund

This orientation session, and the Impact Foundations workshop is preliminary to the upcoming Impact Academy education programs and Hacking Social Impact Unconference hosted by TenX & Northwest Social Venture Fund.

Come to meet peer founders and impact practitioners, and learn how YOU can get more involved in social change opportunities with Northwest Social Venture Fund or by launching / scaling social ventures in your community.

If you're interested in participating as a volunteer, partner, or funder in “Hacking Social Impact” as we work to advance social impact in our communities, please complete our interests registration at http://bit.ly/1cqq3TZ, or contact carolynn@nwsvf.org to discuss.

Stay tuned for more info coming soon!