Reminder: This event will be held tomorrow, August 2, and is open to the public.

Venture Finance and Small Business Development in Central America - International Private Enterprise Group August Meeting Featuring Ricardo Teran

On August 2, please join us for a discussion on micro venture capital and development from one of Latin America's leading social entrepreneurs.

IPEG-DC is extremely pleased to host Agora Partnerships' Nicaragua Managing Director Ricardo J. Teran for a discussion about Agora's model and his experience providing venture finance to small businesses in Central America.

Ricardo J. Teran is co-founder of Agora Partnerships, an Aspen Institute fellow, and a thought leader on enterprise solutions to wealth creation in poor countries. He lives in Managua, Nicaragua.

Agora Partnerships is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets with the tools, aspirations, networks, and financing necessary to launch successful, socially responsible businesses.

The International Private Enterprise Group (IPEG) is a network of professionals working at the intersection of the private sector, capital markets, technology and international development. The group was formed to promote the role of private enterprise and capital markets in catalyzing economic development and facilitate collaboration and the sharing of resources on international projects. Members hail from varied backgrounds; microfinance to hedge funds/private equity, small enterprise to large, nanotechnology to health services, strategy consulting, the multilaterals and academia. What unites us is a belief that the private sector and private capital can bring scalability, sustainability and focus to emerging markets. We are an all volunteer network. We meet regularly in New York City and Washington, DC.

Hosted by the World Resources Institute
Thursday, August 2, 2007
4:30pm to 6:00pm
10 G. Street NE - Map
8th Floor

Event is open to the public.

For information, contact Robert Katz - rkatz (at) wri [dot] org.

Intellecap, a pioneer organization in bottom line investment - Rob has blogged about them before - have postings for a couple BOP-related jobs all across the board.

Intellecap is a consulting firm focused on capital advisory for the inclusive finance space and creating and delivering mainstream, profitable solutions to address the problems of poverty and expedite sustainable development. Intellecap works with microfinance organizations across India, development of financial institutions, social investors and social entrepreneurs from around the world. They believe in being profitable while also supporting sustainable development and a progressive workforce. Intellecap's services and initiatives help the development industry consolidate and disseminate knowledge, and build networks.

The most recent issue of Intellecap’s quarterly magazine "Microfinance Insights" is out this summer. This edition concentrates on "Capital Markets and Microfinance". It is an interesting issue, full of good articles ranging from microfinance institutions and stock markets to the IFC in microfinance and banking for the poor. Their cover story for this issue is “Microfinance Valuations: Chimera or Science.” The article explores the complexity behind the social and commercial aspirations of microfinance, as well as offering metric valuations applicable to microfinance. I found particularly interesting charts on microfinance market indicators in the “trends” section of the magazine.

The subscription of the magazine as an individual, for a year is $35 USD and $60 USD for two years. For a more details on the job listings and for the preview of the magazine, please refer to the attachments.