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Social Fusion - Programs 2004
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We are pleased to inform you about our upcoming programs! Social Fusion's programs are designed to help social ventures and social entrepreneurs to launch and grow their organizations. All programs to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Please circulate this email widely to any channels you may know for accessing start-up social entrepreneurs. View this information online at http://www.wtc-sf.org/sfprograms2004.html.

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Social Enterprise Institute
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The Social Enterprise Institute is an opportunity for social entrepreneurs to meet with a select group of social, foundation and business innovators to discuss and create high-potential partnerships to address social entrepreneurial sector growth and challenges.

Industry expert panelists and established social entrepreneurs will share leading practices in social entrepreneurism. Funders (both nonprofit and for-profit) with a high interest in social enterprise will participate in all sessions.

3/27/04 The Art of Storytelling and Connecting With Your Audience
4/13/04 The Big Picture in Social Enterprise: Mobilizing the Media to Cross the Chasm
5/11/04 Breaking the Rules: Profiles in Scaling Social Enterprise Across Borders

For more information or to apply: www.wtc-sf.org/seinstitute.html
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3/9/2004

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Best Practices Lunch Series
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The Best Practices Lunch Series is an excellent opportunity for you to share Best Practices and network with industry leaders and fellow social entrepreneurs. Each session addresses a critical growth challenge for social entrepreneurs. Both for-profit and nonprofit ventures will increase their exposure to successful models of using business and "double bottom line" approaches for growing social ventures. Collectively we will push social enterprises practices to the next level.

3/19/04 Walking the Double Bottom Line: Models for Delivering Fused Social and Financial Impact
4/23/04 New Tools in Social Enterprise: The Medium of Media
5/21/04 Charting the Waters in the Expanding Social Capital Arena
6/18/04 Partnerships and Alternative Revenue Streams in Social Enterprise
7/16/04 Built to Last: Stories from the Trenches in Effective Board Development
8/20/04 To Scale or Not to Scale: Profiles in Success & Learning

For more information or to register: www.wtc-sf.org/sflunchseries.html

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International Gateway
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Social Fusion's International Gateway program provides international social ventures with access to U.S. networks and development resources. Ventures that join the International Gateway will gain the knowledge, networks, and tools to bridge global divides and create financially viable social impact.

Participants gain access to the key services areas of WTC's Social Fusion incubator program: facilitated access to capital; knowledge; business assessment; and coaching services

For more information or to apply: www.wtc-sf.org/sf_ig.html

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Springboard: Silicon Valley 2004
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Co-hosted by the Women's Technology Cluster and Springboard Enterprises, "Springboard: Silicon Valley 2004" will take place June 24, 2004 in the Bay Area.

Springboard: Silicon Valley 2004 will feature the next generation of emerging-growth businesses and social ventures, primarily in the technology, software, Internet, telecommunications and life sciences industries, from the West Coast region. The Forum will showcase 20 of the most talented women entrepreneurs to an audience of the area's top corporate, angel, and venture investors.

For more information or to apply: www.wtc-sf.org/springboard2004.html
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3/19/2004

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Social Fusion is a program of the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC), where entrepreneurs turn concepts in market leading companies.

http://www.wtc-sf.org/socialfusion.html