Latin American Social Enterprise Symposium
Thursday, June 08, 2006, Santiago, Chile
The Latin American Social Enterprise Symposium (LASES) co-hosted by the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT) aims to raise the profile of the valuable work of social enterprise leaders across Latin America, to share best practices and cases of social enterprise, and to examine the current obstacles and opportunities for fostering social enterprise in the region.
The symposium will bring together leaders in the field to provide greater attention, definition and legitimacy to social enterprise in Latin America; to share practical lessons learned and encourage regional exchange of common experience among social enterprise practitioners and their supporters in Latin America; and to evaluate the policy and legal/regulatory environment for social enterprise in Latin America and formulate a regional strategy for fostering such activity more broadly.
The Symposium will include round-table paper presentations, panel discussions and technical assistance provided through training sessions on relevant social enterprise topics such as business plan development, strategic, financial and human resource management, marketing strategy, and social capital and networking led by the NESsT Venture Fund staff and top University of Michigan Business School faculty.
Participants should be affiliated with a civil society organization (CSO) located in Latin America.
Questions can be directed to Jayne Morgan, Director of Operations at NESsT,
jmorgan@nesst.org and Kelly Janiga, Manager of Research Programs at the William Davidson Institute,
janigak@umich.edu
