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Fair Trade: Funding Gaps and Opportunities in the Supply Chain, Part II
Kate Danaher, RSF Social Finance
A postlude to the SOCAP15 panel, ‘Fair Trade: Funding Gaps and Opportunities in the Supply Chain.’ This panel follows up on the conversation RSF Social Finance hosted last year to explore the challenges and opportunities for building sustainable supply chains and how to capitalize them. The panel focused on the need for reasonably priced, medium term loans, and the role that trust and established relationships could play in mitigating risk. Since that conversation, RSF has piloted three projects to finance the supply chains of their existing borrowers--all driven by the concept of ‘trust underwriting.’ Join us to learn about the projects, their structures, key learnings and next steps.
economic development, fair trade, food systems, global, Impact Investing, Latin America, Supply Chain
Panel
Intermediate
Kate Danaher, RSF Social Finance (organizer/moderator)
Scott Leonard, Indigenous Designs
Chris Mann, Guayaki Yerba Mate
Todd Caspersen, Equal Exchange
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 4-15
Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting. - JUNE 16-28
Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP16 Content Team. - JUNE 29
Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
