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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/innovative-finance
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课程名称：创新金融：黑客金融改变世界 课程概述：本课程旨在探讨如何通过创新金融工具来应对全球贫困问题。我们常常认为资源不够，但问题可能在于我们是否具备适当的资源配置工具。正确运用金融工具，可以促进社会和环境效果。课程将教会学员如何制定创新融资策略，以实现金融包容性、能源获取和教育机会等目标。创新金融过程包括五个关键环节：首先明确希望实现的成果，然后运用设计思维对问题进行尽职调查，接着绘制可用资源的地图，并通过商业模式创新、多方参与合作以及创新金融结构来发现增值机会，最后整合这些要素设计出创新融资策略。 每周聚焦于这个过程的一个环节，通过社交企业、非营利组织、发展资金提供者、影响投资者、政府和基金会的案例研究进行深入探讨。在五周的时间里，学员将学习新的收入创造方式、融资途径、商业模式和合作伙伴关系。到课程结束时，学员将具备“黑客”金融以推动社会变革的能力。 课程大纲： 1. **选择你的问题领域**：探索创新金融及其对社会影响的重要性，研究相关案例以明确未来关注的领域。 2. **理解挑战和障碍**：评估问题领域内的需求和挑战，学习尽职调查及设计思维的重要性，并进行相关案例分析。 3. **识别资源**：关注实现预期成果所需的资源，学习如何从已有资产中创造收入以及参与各种资助者。 4. **发现机会**：识别在问题领域外可能遇到的机会与风险，分析其他领域的最佳实践和潜在风险。 5. **设计影响**：总结之前的学习，进行创新融资策略的设计，最终完成考试并提交荣誉作业——设计个人的创新融资策略。 通过这一课程，学员能够有效利用创新融资工具，帮助推动社会和环境的积极变化。
Name:Choosing Your Issue Area
Description:Welcome to the first week. We start by defining what innovative finance is and why we need to innovative around financing for social impact. The seven themes of impact we consider are housing, health, education, financial inclusion, agriculture, energy, and water, sanitation, and hygiene. Our case studies are a social enterprise, impact investor, foundation, non-profit and government who are each building innovative financing strategies. You will be investigating why these organisations were created and what the specific issue areas are that they have chosen. We'll encourage you to also start thinking about which of these issue areas resonates with you and what you wish to address in the future. This is the first building block in guiding you to create an innovative financing strategy for yourself.
Name:Understanding Challenges and Roadblocks
Description:This week we are going to look at how you assess the needs, challenges and roadblocks in your issue area. You’ll be introduced to Due Diligence, an essential process that needs to be undertaken to map the problem and solutions landscape of an issue area. Following this, we cover design thinking - a useful tool that can be used when conducting due diligence. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the user perspective when mapping problems and potential solutions. Once we’ve understood the concepts, our case studies explain their approaches to due diligence and impact measurement. For this week’s assignment, you’ll need to pick your issue area and outcome metrics as well as design an engagement plan.
Name:Identifying Resources
Description:Congratulations on reaching week 3! This week we are going to focus on the resources you have to achieve the outcomes in your issue area. The primary goal of this week is to get you to think creatively about your assets, revenue streams and funding sources. We are going to start with how you create revenue from assets that you have already identified and work that you (or others) are already doing. Then we are going to look at the different types of funders you should think about engaging with around resourcing. We will also look at websites to find information about these funders. We will spend a bit of time speaking about a specific type of contract called an outcomes-based contract, which can be an effective tool to create revenue streams from a third party payer. Finally, our cases are going to speak about how they identified resources to address their issue area and work towards their outcomes. You’ll hear the case participants reference the different types of funders that we discuss as well as the opportunity to use an outcomes-based contract. The assignments this week include a graded quiz and creating a resource map. Let’s get going!
Name:Discovering Opportunities
Description:So now that you’ve had engaged with resources, let’s consider the opportunities and risks that you may face when dealing with your issue area. First, you’ll learn how to look for specific types of opportunities outside of your issue area. We’ll draw on the best practices of other sectors or geographies to create new approaches to achieving your outcomes. We’ll then dive into the darker side - the risks that you’ll need to understand and address with your innovative financing strategy. For your assignment, you’ll need to identify the risks and opportunities associated with your issue area.
Name:Designing for Impact
Description:Congratulations on reaching the final week of the course! It’s a short week ahead. Here we introduce you to the five stages of the innovative finance process, which you have been working through during the past four weeks. This week we have arrived at the design process. This requires us to look back over what we’ve done to create a design for our innovative financing strategy. In this week our cases tells us how they designed for impact. Following this, I provide a summary of the cases from week 1 to week 5 and how it relates to the innovative finance process. We end off the course with an exam, covering everything we have learned, and also an optional honours assignment. In this assignment we want you to design your Innovative Finance Strategy.
To address global poverty - do we really not have enough resources or do we not have the right tools to allocate our resources? The tools of finance, when applied correctly, can be an enabler of social and environmental outcomes. This course is designed to give you the ability to build innovative financing strategies that work towards outcomes such as financial inclusion, access to energy and access to education. The innovative finance process has five key components. It starts with identifying the outcomes you are looking to achieve and next moves on to due diligencing your issue area using techniques like design thinking to make sure you are designing with the end user. Next you must map all of the resources available for your outcome and then discover opportunities to augment these through business model innovation, multi-stakeholder partnerships and innovative financial structures. Finally, the last step is to put all of these pieces together to design an innovating financing strategy. Each week dives into a component of the process using examples and real case studies from social entrepreneurs, non-profits, development funders, impact investors, governments, foundations and more. Over five weeks you’ll learn about new types of revenue creation, financing approaches, business models and partnerships. By the end of the course, you’ll have the ability to hack finance for social change. Watch the course trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSMUoCJgqkw
