Social Finance Round Up: First Person Worldwide Receives MA of Social Banking and Social Finance
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, a Google reader that has over 100 feeds, and directly from our network of social finance practitioners across Canada. Below is our round up for the week of November 22, 2010.
Last Week on SocialFinance.ca
A Close Look at Who Won the G20 SME Finance Challenge
Hima Batavia, Mclaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Nov. 16, 2010
A Primer on Impact Investing
Adam Spence, Social Venture Exchange, Nov. 18, 2010
Canadian and International News
First person worldwide successfully completes MA Social Banking and Social Finance!
Institute for Social Banking, Nov. 19, 2010
Social Finance Task Force Aims to be Catalyst for New Initiatives
Camille Jensen, Axiom News, Nov. 15, 2010
Canadian Youth Business Foundation Launches Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada on Parliament Hill
Rachel Azagury, CYBF, Nov. 15, 2010
Why Franchising Could be the Key to Scaling Social Enterprise
Nick Temple, The Guardian, Nov. 15, 2010
Investors Representing Over $15 Trillion Call for U.S., International Action on Climate Change
CSRwire, Nov. 16, 2010
India Microcredit Faces Collapse from Defaults
Lydia Polgreen, New York Times, Nov. 17, 2010
Social investing can be profitable, venture capitalist says
Chuck Howitt, TheRecord, Nov. 18, 2010
New Online Community “Sparks” Green Entreprenurs
Sarah Lenarcic, MaRS Blog, Nov. 19, 2010
Social Finance Learning and Best Practices
Social Asset Measurements Unlocking Keys to Effective Social Change
Camille Jensen, Axiom News, Nov. 18, 2010
On Microfinance: Who’s to to Blame for the Crisis in Andhra Pradesh?
Elizabeth Rhyne, Huffington Post, Nov. 2, 2010
History of Indian Social VC
Business World via Poor Billionaire, Nov. 13, 2010
Sunny Days for Microfinance
Timothy Ogden, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nov. 19, 2010
Financing What Works: Social Impact Bonds Hold Promise
Jitinder Kohli, Center for American Progress, Nov. 18, 2010
Recent Discoveries
Events
Entrepreneurship 101: Geoff Cape, Social Entrepreneur and CEO of Evergreen (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 24, 2010, MaRS Discovery District, 5:30 pm
A Toast to Social Entrepreneurship: Celebrate, Inspire, Connect (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 25, 2010, MaRS Discovery District, 6:00pm - 10:30pm
Social Enterprise Development in Canada with Ann Armstrong (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 26, 2010, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
Emerge: The Social Entrepreneurship Conference for Students (Oxford, UK)
Nov. 27-28, 2010, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Dignity In Focus: Photography Auction and Exhibition (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 24, 2010, IX Gallery, 11 Davies Ave, 7pm-10pm
Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century with CEO and Co-Founder of Kickstart, Martin Fisher (New York, NY)
Nov. 29, 2010, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Justmeans Measuring What Matters Workshop (Boston, MA)
Nov. 29, 2010, Babson College, 9:00am - 4:30pm.
Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Launch Event (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 30, 2010, MaRS Discovery District, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Social Finance Social (Toronto, ON)
Nov. 30, 2010, The Queen and Beaver Pub, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Social Finance Symposium (Toronto, ON)
Dec 1. 2010, MaRS Discovery District, 7:30am - 3:30pm
International Impact Investing Summit (New York, NY)
Dec. 2-3, 2010, Flatotel
Series on Aging: Social Innovators - Champions of Change (Toronto, ON)
Dec. 3, 2010, MaRS Discovery District, 8:30am - 4:00pm
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