Video: A Hope That Saves in Rwanda

Faith. Prosperity. Microfinance. Evangelism. Collective Renewal. How are all these things connected in a virtuous cycle?

Our Video of the Week is from HOPE International, a Canadian international development agency, and tells the story of their small savings circle program which builds communities around spiritual and material sustenance.

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Social Finance Round Up: Launch of Big Society Capital and Community Forward Fund

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 9, 2012.

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Social Finance Round Up: Call for Papers at Academic Conference on Responsible Investment

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 weeks of February 13, 2012 and February 27, 2012.

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Social Impact Bonds May be Coming To Ontario: Celebration and Cautions

The Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services, also known as the Drummond Report, has landed at Queen’s Park with a considerable thud, and not only because it is 6 cm thick. The report calls for significant cuts and changes to the Ontario government as we know it.

Particularly relevant to social finance, the Report recommends that the Ontario government implement social impact bonds.

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