SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of April 23, 2012.
Late last month, running in parallel to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, OxfordJam’12 took place in the Old Fire Station, a charity and social enterprise in the heart of Oxford. The short film from the event features highlights from the many sessions, conversations, and good times that were had.
The Community Forward Fund is an innovative fund that provides loans to charities and non-profits. Its manager, CFFAC, also provides financial coaching services. Its vision is a sustainable non-profit and charitable sector. In April, along with several of their partners and supporters, the CFF marked the official opening of their Fund at a celebration hosted by Citizens Bank at their Toronto offices.
It is often remarked that good intentions are not enough. We all know about projects and visions animated by excellent intentions that either failed completely, or inadvertently created as many problems as solutions. The role of social finance in microfinance is just such a tale.
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of April 16, 2012.




























