It seems fall is the season for social finance. We at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing would like to draw your attention to some fantastic events happening this month. We hope you will join us!
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“Impact investing is not just an asset class; it’s a movement. A new lens through which we look at investing.”
These words from Kevin Jones, co-founder and convener of SOCAP Markets, officially kicked off the content stream at SOCAP this past Tuesday morning. It certainly felt like a movement with significant moment at Fort Mason, where over 1,600 entrepreneurs, investors, intermediaries and other players in the impact space congregated for the largest SOCAP conference to date.
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As part of a collaboration with CharityVillage for Social Finance Week, socialfinance.ca is featuring a series of case studies on non-profits and charities using social finance tools to increase
the effectiveness and resiliency of their organizations. The first article in the series profiled Vancouver-based social enterprise Embers Staffing Solutions; the second, the Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre. Today's post traces the development of Atira Property Management, a social enterprise created to support Atira Women's Resource Society.
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Wednesday, July 18 at 1pm ET for a Live conversation about nonprofits running businesses. Our expert panel includes Susan Manwaring, National Chair of Miller Thomson’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Group and co-author of Social Enterprise in Canada: Structural Options, Jane Bisbee, Executive Director of the Social Enterprise Fund, and Carol-Ann Smith, Manager of Social Entrepreneurship at MaRS Discovery District. Bring your questions and comments - we look forward to the conversation!
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SocialFinance.ca has teamed up with our friends at CharityVillage to bring you a full week's worth of content & interactive features focussed the application of social finance for the non-profit sector. Check out the great lineup, and join the conversation #sfweek.
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This week, celebrating 100 years of global innovation, the Rockafeller Foundation held its second annual Innovation and Awards Ceremony. One of four award recipients was Sir Ronald Cohen, who is widely regarded as the father of social investment. In this short video, Cohen addresses the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance, and discusses its recommendations. Happy Canada day!
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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 2, 2012.
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For those of us tracking developments in social finance, both the federal and the Ontario budgets announced this week hold promise that policy leaders are searching for innovative and collaborative approaches to tackle our most pressing problems that will drive our tax dollars towards greater impact.
Concurrently, a speech to the Nova Scotia general assembly affirmed the maritime province’s commitment to foster social enterprise through as part of their plan to increase economic stability, following a promising development in British Columbia to introduce community contribution companies.
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B Corporations have been making a lot of noise in 2012. Today, Canadian enterprises shared the spotlight, as B Lab – the non-profit behind B Corps - announced the 39 Founding Canadian B Corporations (Press Release, PDF). SocialFinance.ca also received an email from Vale Jokisch, Director of Services, B Lab to share with the community in Canada. Read more to see a video of co-founder Jay Coen Gilbert on B Corps, as well as a surprise!
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The 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting kicked off today with a markedly sombre tone. Economic imbalances and rising inequality threaten to reverse the gains of globalization, according to the WEF report Global Risks 2012, released earlier this month, while the past year's global economic turmoil, spiraling debt crisis and social upheaval are surely weighing heavily on the minds and agendas of global leaders gathering in Davos.
The theme for this year's meeting is, appropriately, "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models." There is a recognition that our current system for economic and global governance is broken, and systemic change is required.
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The SocialFinance.ca weekly round up is back! SocialFinance.ca produces a 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 weeks of January 16 and January 24.
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