Social Finance Round Up: Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Noted in Federal Budget
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 28, 2011.
Last Week on SocialFinance.ca
Michele F. Gartner posted A Supply-Demand Imbalance
Jim Coburn posted Canadian Companies Pushed to Green Up Their Disclosure to Investors
Alexis Ettinger posted A Sneak Peek at Skoll World Forum 2011
Canadian and International News
Canadian Task Force on Social Finance noted in the Canadian federal budget
Peter Wanless posted Lottery Money to Fund ‘People Powered Change’ on The Guardian.
Jennifer Neutel posted CEO Encourages Canadians Shift to Ethical Investing on Axiom News.
Kiva posted Kiva Reaches $200 Million in Loans
Social Finance Learning and Best Practices
Paula Cardenau posted Why Global Social Enterprise Needs to Become Its Own Asset Class (An Interview with David Green) on NextBillion.
Mark Kramer and Michael Porter posted The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value on Harvard Business Review.
Eric Lam posted Taking the Ethical Path to Profits in The Vancouver Sun.
Karina Ioffee posted Beyond Profits: Creating a New Kind of Corporations
David Bornstein posted Grameen Bank and the Public Good in The New York Times.
Mariam Noronha posted Social Enterprise: How to Balance Dreams and Reality on Noobpreneur.com
Aaron Hurst posted What IDEO.org Can Learn From Bridgespan on The Huffington Post.
Mariam Noronha posted the 7 Social Enterprise Ideas That Have and Will Always Find Takers
Jay Standish posted Peer-vetted early-stage finance for social entrepreneurs
Recent Discoveries
The Hult International Business School offers a social entreprenurship MBA program in London, U.K.
Job Opening
The Young Foundation is looking for a Social Entrepreneur in Residence
Upcoming Events
The Big Society: The Current Ethos of Social Engagement in Britain and Its Implications for the Role of Government (Toronto, ON)
Mar. 28, 2011, University of Toronto, 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Skoll World Forum (Oxford, UK)
Mar. 30th - Apr. 1st, Said Business School
Oxford Jam (Oxford, UK)
Mar. 30th - Apr. 1st, The Jam Factory
Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Webinar: What role can the community sector have in advancing the recommendations? (Toronto, ON)
April 5, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tim Draimin on Social Finance: Its Promise and Its Challenges (Toronto, ON)
April 7, 2011, Rotman School of Management, 5pm - 7pm
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