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.
Social Innovation
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 30, 2012.
Lisa Heydlauff tells stories to inspire the children of Indian slums and villages to believe in their own possibilities; Paul Cheng works to improve the financial efficiency of charities and social enterprises out of London; Keely Stevenson in San Francisco invests in women due to the multiplier effect they have in support of long-term economic growth; And in Zurich, social entrepreneur, Roman Gaus, is developing a cost-efficient, sustainable and process-controlled way to grow food and roll out urban farms worldwide.
Why own when you can access? This question is becoming more and more prevalent among city dwellers thanks to the rise of the sharing economy, which is revolutionizing the way we think about ownership by increasing access, reducing waste, and generally making life better. Collaborative consumption, or peer-to-peer economy, is allowing us to take a broader, innovative perspective of our owned assets.
For some months now, I have been investigating the notion of a micro-credit program for Ontario artists. If you are a professional artist in Ontario, then please run - don’t walk - to the MARProject Survey. And if you know one, please forward this blog post to them. The survey is open to professional artists of any discipline – visual arts, media arts, dance, music, theatre, writing or other. It is about increasing the financing opportunities available to artists.



























