Social Finance Round Up: U.S. SEC Considers New Rules to Permit Crowdfunding
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 11, 2011.
Last Week on SocialFinance.ca
Olaf Weber posted Social Banks and the Future (and Past) of Sustainable Finance
Timothy Nash posted Corporate R&D: Global Investments in Green Innovation
Heather Crosbie posted Insights from the Harvard University Social Enterprise Conference
Canadian and International News
VentureBeat reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering rules to permit crowdfunding
Plugged.in published Angels in the Crowd–Is Crowdfunding The Next Wave?
Richard Blackwell published Neither sellouts nor ‘wing-nut tree-huggers’ (profiling The Pembina Institute) in the Globe and Mail.
Camille Jensen of Axiom News reported Hamilton Community Foundation Commits $5 Million for Local Investment
Javier Espinoza published Social Enterprises Profit From Interest in The Wall Street Journal
CNN reported Bangladeshi court rejects microcredit pioneer's appeal
UnLtd Ventures launched a contest for a free ticket to SoCap/Europe
Conservative Party platform includes Social Impact Bonds (see p. 55)
Liberal Party platform includes adoption of CSR standards (see p. 87)
Social Finance Learning and Best Practices
NESTA published a report entitled “Twenty catalytic investments to grow the social investment market.”
Social Finance UK published A New Approach to Banking: Extending the use of Jam Jar Accounts in the UK
Benedict Rickey discussed the role of the Big Society Bank in New Philanthropy Capital
Iona Joy, Lucy de Las Casas and Benedict Rickey published Understanding the demand for and supply of social finance in NESTA
Antony Elliot published Investing for the good of society in NESTA
Sites We Like
NESTA - National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (UK)
Upcoming Events
Investing for Impact: Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good (Waterloo, ON)
Apr 13, 2011, Accelerator Centre, 5:45pm - 8:00pm
Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Webinar: What Role Can the Community Sector Have in Advancing the Recommendations? (Toronto, ON)
April 27, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
SoCap/Europe (Amsterdam, NL)
May 30 - June 1, 2011, Beurs Van Berlage
Canadian Responsible Investment Conference (Victoria, BC)
Jun 20-22, 2011, The Fairmont Empress Hotel
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