We worked with the fine folks over at the Social Capital Index to get Asheville Treecyclers listed in their enterprise directory. You can check it out here.
What is the Social Capital Index? Here’s the overview from their website:
The Social Capital Index (SCI) was first launched in the spring of 2008 by the teams at Good Capital (www.goodcap.net) and Xigi.net to create a place where both investors and enterprises could find information on recent and historical deals. Since its launch, the SCI has been capturing and sharing information on investments into funds, syndicators and relevant foundations. It has also captured and shared information on social enterprises seeking capital. The SCI was published monthly on the xigi.net platform and through the Good Capitalist newsletter. In the fall of 2008, the SCI team developed a seperate site – www.socialcapitalindex.net – as its new, online platform to highlight information about entrepreneurs and funders in the social capital marketplace.
At its core, SCI provides investors the opportunity to discover enterprises and potential co-investors and entrepreneurs the opportunity to share their message with potential investors and partners. For the community, SCI offers a place to build critical market information and explore key questions and challenges in this emerging marketplace.
Going forward, the SCI will build upon its initial launch and create a critical mass of investment information. SCI is an initiative of several social enterprise partners, and together we are tracking the social capital market’s growth, trajectory, variety and market size. We are also collaborating with a growing community of interested stakeholders to increase the knowledge and insight around key questions and performance criteria that drive capital in this emerging marketplace.