Tag Archives: 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 …

Q&A with CASE Alumnus Beth Bafford

Beth Bafford (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 …

Are you a Note Holder?

This post was written 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 …

The “Surprise” Social Entrepreneur

This post was written 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 …

Disrupting the Status Quo

This post was written by Amy Snyder and Beth Bafford. Amy and Beth are both second year MBA students, CASE Fellows, and the co-chairs of this year’s fantastic Duke MBA Net Impact “Sustainable Business and Social Impact” Conference.  Earlier this …

The Gift of Shelter

This blog was written by CASE Fellow Beth Bafford.  She was joined on the trip by CASE Fellow (and frequent CASE blogger) Dan Baum, CASE Scholar Meredith Driscoll, and other CASE enthusiasts.  Over winter break, I had the great honor and opportunity …

Impact Investing: Get in the Game

his post was written 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 …

The Power of Play

This post was written by second year 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, …

Impact Investing: The Student Perspective

This post was written by Christina Rausch and Beth Bafford, both rising second year Duke MBA students. If you run in CASE student circles (or if you are reading this blog), there is a good chance you have been hearing …