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On October 29^th Ashoka and Avantage Ventures co-hosted Dialogue with Ashoka & Avantage Ventures “Affordable Healthcare and its Applications in China” at the Blue Frog in Beijing.  David Green, an Ashoka fellow working to provide the underprivileged with affordable corrective intraocular lenses and hearing aids, lead the discussion.  David spoke on his experiences with ‘compassionate capitalism’ whereby profits gained from privileged countries are used to subsidize qua

On June 23, the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), a Hong Kong think tank, and private investor, Annie Chen, co-hosted an investor forum focused on investing in social ventures. A first of its kind in Asia, the forum discussed opportunities in social investing to an oversubscribed crowd of 60 participants, which included family investors, private banks, foundations, and private equity firms.

Mar 19, 2009: Jolie Lam is a panel judge for the "Skills for Social Entrepreneurs" training competition joinly organised by the British Council and YouCheng (China Social Entrepreneur Foundation) in Beijing. The trainees include both experienced NGO practitioners and new starters with creative ideas. They are working in diverse areas such as poverty-relief, care for the old people, employment, education, environmental protection, the disabled and rural development.

BEIJING, March 21st, 2009: Yvonne Li will be a panelist speaker at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2009 at Oxford University. She will be joined by a panel of distinguished guests: Nachiket Mor of ICIC Foundation of Inclusive Growth, Kevin Jones of Good Capital and Pieter Oostlander of Noaber Fund. The session "Innovations in Social Finance" will be moderated by Brian Trelstad of Acumen Fund.