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The Artha Platform at Sankalp

April 8, 2012
The Artha Platform at Sankalp

The Artha Platform is an online community and website dedicated to building relationships between impact investors and donors, and social entrepreneurs and capacity building support organisations working in India. My friend and colleague, Audrey Selian, conceived of and founded Artha to address the combined problems of prohibitive transaction costs, the challenge of building trust across investors...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, That’s a Wrap!

April 5, 2012

We encouraged you to step up, speak out, and make OxfordJam’12 the biggest and best OxfordJam yet. You did exactly that. What a wonderful week, full of fabulous people and creative collisions. We’ll be back early next week garnering...
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OxfordJam is upon us!

March 26, 2012
OxfordJam is upon us!

Without the contribution of content and good intent from hundreds (yes hundreds!) of people OxfordJam simply wouldn’t exist. A big thanks ahead of this coming week for everyone’s efforts – in the preparation, in getting here, in the sessions,...
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Honest Burgers, honestly good!

March 18, 2012
Honest Burgers, honestly good!

Honest Burgers in Brixton Market is one of the new burger joints popping up all over London.  Worthy of a trip south of the river, it instantly made it into my top five places for a burger.  Honest Burgers...
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OxfordJam – The Complement to Skoll

March 7, 2012
OxfordJam – The Complement to Skoll

This is the text of a blog post I wrote for the OxfordJam website, the first of a series leading up to the event this month on 28th – 30th March at The Old Firestation in Oxford. OxfordJam is...
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Ben Metz..

..social entrepreneur, innovator, financier, disruptor, cook and lover of life!