Social Investment Manual An Introduction for Social Entrepreneurs Developed by the Social Investment Task Force Consisting of Technical University Schwab Foundation Schwab Foundation for Munich Community of Social Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs* Ann-Kristin Achleitner led by Mirjam Schöning Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl Andreas Heinecke Abigail Noble Ann-Kristin Achleitner holds the KfW Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance and is Scientific Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. Andreas Heinecke is Founder and CEO of Dialogue Social Enterprise and a professor at the Danone Chair for Social Business at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. Abigail Noble is head of Latin America and Africa at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in Geneva, Switzerland. Mirjam Schöning is head and Senior Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Geneva, Switzerland. Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl is a research assistant at the KfW Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Published: September 2011 The Social Investment Manual can be found at www.schwabfound.org/pdf/schwabfound/SocialInvestmentManual.pdf or ssrn.com/abstract=1884338. * Please see page 61 for an overview of the task force members of the Schwab Foundation community who contributed to the development of this document. We look forward to your commentss. Please contact
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