Full Circle Fund members and guests gathered at Dogpatch Studios for "Imagining the Unimaginable" with top social entrepreneurs. Before hearing from three particularly innovative speakers, the crowd ate very well thanks to M Woodward Catering as Christopher Kilday strummed his guitar.

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Premal Shah, president of Kiva, talks at the Full Circle Fund "Imagining the Unimaginable" event to lead off a panel that also included Deb Levine of I.S.I.S., Inc. and Jim Fruchterman of Benetech - all of whom have found impressive ways of making technology work for the social good.

Kiva's method of allowing anyone to be a micro-lender to entreprenours across the world is a model that will bring prosperity to millions. This is the good globalization.

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Jonathan Kurshan tells Full Circle Fund members about the new members only pages on the website.

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Al Gore spoke at the Full Circle Fund 2007 Forum: "You've Got the Power" to help them launch their new Environment Circle.

You know it's a big time event when Leah Garchik comments on it.

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Marc Smolowitz, of Access SF, updates fellow and prospective members of the Full Circle Fund Technology Circle about their work on SexInfo which will allow San Francisco youth to get sex questions answered using text messaging. This meeting was a breakout session during Full Circle Fund's Joint Impact Circle meeting in Mountain View.

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Steve Westly talks at the Full Circle Fund's Joint Impact Circle, hosted by a generous company located in Mountain View.

As Lauren notes, he said, "Dare Mighty Things," and be ready to, "Suffer Much." Bemoaning the brain drain in Sacramento, Westly encouraged the crowd of conscientious entrepreneurs to, "Suck it up and run for public office."

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Full Circle Fund members get an update from the education circle.

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Steve Westly talks to the Full Circle Fund.

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Adam Hirschfelder, of the Koret Foundation, and teacher Erika Padilla-Morales during a Full Circle Fund Technology Circle break-out meeting.

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At Full Circle Fund's annual Full Impact Forum, the keynote speaker was Larry Brilliant, a genius who was recently named to be the executive director of Google.org. He was followed by other "Agents of Change" that discussed tips for how to create change.

Dwayne Jones talked about his Communities of Opportunity program to bring effective job training and opportunities to the Bayview and Hunters Point, Don Summa of the CTA joked about the unlikely-hood of a union official being recognized as an agent of change, and Salvador Menjivar talked about getting people back to self-sufficiency with the Hamilton Family Center. Steven Lurie, a Full Circle Fund member, moderated.

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