Beth Bafford
Four Steps to Unlock the Potential of Impact Investing
This post originally appeared on Next Billion on October 19, 2015 with the title “NexThought Monday: Four Steps to Unlock the Potential of Impact Investing: SOCAP15 conference highlights critical areas where the sector should focus.” You can find the original posting here. At the recent SOCAP conference, thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, academics and others gathered […]
Q&A with CASE Alumnus Beth Bafford
Beth Bafford (Daytime MBA ’12) serves as the Senior Officer of Strategic Initiatives at the Calvert Foundation, a social impact debt fund that provides innovative financial products to increase capital access to underserved communities. While at Fuqua, Beth was actively involved with CASE through CASE i3, Fuqua on Board and the MBA Net Impact Club. This November […]
Are you a Note Holder? Lisa Hall of Calvert Foundation
This post was written in April 2012 by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Lisa Hall, President and CEO of the Calvert Foundation. As we’ve mentioned on this blog before, there is a lot of excitement around impact investing both here at Duke and around the […]
The “Surprise” Social Entrepreneur: Laura Callanan of McKinsey & Co
This post was written in March 2012 by second year Duke MBA and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Laura Callanan, CASE Advisory Council member and keynote at this year’s Sustainable Business and Social Impact conference. Laura works with the Social Sector Office at McKinsey & Co. We had the immense pleasure of hosting […]
Antony Bugg-Levine of Nonprofit Finance Fund on Getting in the Game
This post was written in December 2011 by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and recipient of the 2011 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award. We had the distinct pleasure to present the CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award to […]
The Power of Play: Darell Hammond of KaBOOM
This post was written in October 2011 by MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Darell Hammond, CEO & Founder of KaBOOM!, recipient of the 2011 U.S. Social Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Schwab Foundation, and author of the NY Times Bestseller, “KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement […]