Social Finance Round Up: ‘Locavesting’ and the SVX featured in the Wall Street Journal
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 30, 2011.
Last Week on SocialFinance.ca
Anshula Chowdhury posted SOCAP/Europe: A Litmus Test for Social Capital Markets on May 31, 2011
Anshula Chowdhury posted SOCAP/Europe: Many Keystones for Systems Change on June 1, 2011
Anshula Chowdhury posted SOCAP/Europe: Three Bridges to Capital - Meeting the Needs of Impact Investors on June 1, 2011
Anshula Chowdhury posted SOCAP/Europe: Innovations in Honey Tracking (a.k.a. A Social Currency System that Works) on June 1, 2011
Nabeel Ahmed posted Video: Toby Eccles explains Social Impact Bonds on June 3, 2011
Canadian and International News
Joel Millman covers the growth of 'locavesting' - or stock exchanges for local businesses, featuring the Social Venture Exchange based out of Toronto, in the Wall Street Journal.
Martine Letarte posted Des acteurs pour une finance socialement responsable in Quebec's Le Devoir.
Terena Bell, CEO of In Every Language, relates how it feels to be the only certified B Corporation in Kentucky, in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
A Seed Fund has been granted to the Center for Social Research to support the publication of Rudolf Steiner's Indications on Money & Finance, reports Catherine Covington in RSF Social Finance.
Ben Thornley discusses the importance of a public sector role in growing social capital markets, drawing on findings in Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy & Design, published in January by InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Ashoka, Bamboo Finance, and the Canopus Foundation have launched the Oasis Energy - Solar for All Fund, which will invest in companies bringing affordable solar power to markets that are without access to electricity.
Social Finance Learning and Best Practices
Peter Corning argues that the guiding principle for capitalism needs to be fairness, in Capitalism and Fairness.
Tim Berry lists seven cringe-worthy business plan mistakes in Entrepreneur.com.
Upcoming Events
Climate Policies, International Regimes and Global Trade : A Transatlantic Perspective (Vancouver)
UBC Institute for European Studies, June 10 - 11, 2011
Engaging Individuals to Invest in Your Charity’s Mission (Toronto)
Center for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave., 9 am - 4 pm, June 22, 2011.
Beyond the Walls - Fundraising Party (Toronto)
Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst St., 6 pm - 1 am, June 17, 2011
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