Continuing our video series with another best practice from the world of social finance, here's Anshula Chowdhury on the importance of measuring social value. What do we mean when we say 'impact'? What distinguishes an impact investor from a standard investor? Watch this short video to find out.
That is a great question. One that, as the newly hired Manager of B Corporation and Social Impact Metrics at MaRS, I am all too eager to answer.
Certified B Corporations are “a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.” To receive certification, companies must meet high quality and independent standards of social and environmental performance including the following: Accountability, Employees, Consumers, Community and Environment. This certification, based on a points system, is provided through B Lab, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting this growing ecosystem of companies creating good.
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 October 3, 2011.
“There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are the things we don’t know we don’t know” – Donald Rumsfeld
Opening with a quote from the former US Secretary of Defense probably seems like an odd start for a blog post about social finance, but I like its framing of a key problem in social finance: how can you best manage what you don’t understand?
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 September 5, 2011.
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SocialFinance.ca hosts an online guide that helps social entrepreneurs learn how to attract financing for their social ventures.
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