In Spring 2012, Ennovent launched the Impact Circle – a service that brings together accredited investors and entrepreneurs, with support from renowned experts and service providers, to invest or co-invest in high-impact enterprises responding to BoP market demand. Through a model of partnership, harnessing Ennovent’s ground expertise and online global network, the Impact Circle helps to reduce the risk associated with placing an investment in early-stage enterprises.
The School for Social Entrepreneurs - Ontario (SSE-O) officially launched in their Regent Park location last Thursday, June 28, with a full-house event that included keynote speeches from Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, the Honorable Michael Chan, and the school’s Chief Executive, Alastair Wilson.
The global microfinance sector has had no shortage of international attention over the last two years – much of it due to the widely-publicized crisis that struck India in late 2010.
It was shortly after this crisis turned the Indian microfinance sector upside down that I began a year-long fellowship with a small microfinance institution (MFI) in Calcutta. Without fail every time I would venture into the field to meet with clients and branch staff to understand exactly how microfinance was working, I would get asked, almost cheekily, by the MFI staff: “Well, what does microfinance look like in Canada?”
The Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund (YSI-CF) launched yesterday, May 23rd, at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto with an inspiring keynote speech and the final round of a social enterprise pitch competition that provided the winner with a micro-loan.
YSI-CF is a newly established non-profit organization focused on bridging the financial and business advisory services gap for young social entrepreneurs that inhibits many high-potential youth innovators from implementing their ventures.
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 May 14, 2012.
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 March 26, 2012.
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 March 5, 2012.
It is through the collaboration of ideas and experiences that the team at SocialFinance.ca can bring thoughtful discussions to the social finance community each week. In this spirit, we recently brought on several new Assistant Editors to enhance our network with their passion for impact investing and diverse professional backgrounds. To introduce readers to our new contributors, each Assistant Editor was asked what, in their opinion, impact investing needs to move forward.
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