Structure Lab - Minneapolis
Where
Offices of Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
Map
Map/Directions
When
Mar 04
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost
$299.00
New corporate forms are blurring the boundaries between for profits and nonprofits. Old silos of financing and funding streams are giving way to hybrid structures like social capital firms, public/private collaborations and venture philanthropy. Entrepreneurs and established organizations alike are bending the marketplace to meet multiple bottom lines including a return on social capital. While some nimbly explore the space between for profit and nonprofit, many more are struggling to make sense of the new landscape of social change.
Criterion Ventures is a leading voice in the
structuring of social ventures.
Criterion’s dual identity in launching social
ventures, both for clients and by taking an
equity position with internally developed
ideas, has resulted in a nuanced understanding
of what it takes to launch a ventures. It
is itself a unique structure in the world of
social ventures. As the world of social
enterprise matures, Criterion is helping to
create the methodology that can make it more
accessible. Criterion has spent the past year
creating an easy to engage process to
understand how new forms are structured and how
they might work to support the efforts of
social change agents.
The Structure Lab provides participants with
a roadmap of possibilities to navigate this new
territory. Participants will have a clear
understanding of the range of possible legal
structures that can be employed for their newly
forming venture, pros and cons of each of those
structures as it applies to their prospective
venture, and will be prepared to work with
legal counsel to take the next steps in
understanding and establishing the optimal
legal structure.
Our Minneapolis Lab is generously sponsored by Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, a commercial law firm based in Minneapolis with 85 attorneys offering extensive experience in the areas of business and securities, commercial litigation, estate planning, financial services, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate and sustainable business. Maslon attorneys will be present at the Lab alongside Criterion instructors to engage with and teach participants throughout the day. There will be a networking reception immediately following the workshop.
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