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Last week, more than 1,500 people crowded into historic Fort Mason on the San Francisco Bay overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. The retrofitted military relic was an appropriate venue for the The Social Capital Markets Conference, which attracted throngs of investors and entrepreneurs who want to remake finance into a tool for social change.
The biggest gathering of the year for impact investors seeking better ways to merge money and meaning, The Social Capital Markets Conference was an opportunity to find the best new social entrepreneurs to fund. GOOD talked with some of these pioneering investors to get tips for social entrepreneurs who want to attract values-driven cash.
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