Opportunity Collaboration

"The Opportunity Collaboration is a four-day, purpose-driven networking and problem-solving business retreat commencing on International Poverty Eradication Day.. The co-conveners are the Ashoka, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Global Philanthropy Forum, Social Venture Network, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Stanford Center for Social Innovation), Women Donors Network, Worldways Social Marketing and Jonathan C. Lewis (Chair, MicroCredit Enterprises).

In a focused and intensive series of working business meetings, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers, grant-makers and agents of change explore unprecedented levels of collaboration, identify opportunities for leveraging resources across organizations and accelerate proven models for reducing poverty.

Poverty alleviation has never been simple. But the economic slump and strained resources means that we cannot afford to lose pace. How can we accelerate poverty alleviation? When something works, how can we scale it faster? When a new idea is born, how does it get to market?

If you are unafraid to break down the silos of unproductive competition and if you are eager to think beyond the boundaries of conventional social business models, be a Delegate to the Opportunity Collaboration."