Social impact bonds and pay for success financing are generating a great deal of interest around the globe, and the US and Australia have been at the centre of much of it since the turn of the new year, as this post describes. In this short clip, Les Hems, Director of Research at the Centre for Social Impact in Australia, provides an overview of what's happening Down Under.
A profusion of crowd-funding platforms has emerged in the last few years, from the peer-to-peer lending site Zopa to microfinance giants Kiva. Theresa Burton and Michael Norton have stepped into the fray by setting up Buzzbnk – a crowd-funding platform for start-up social entrepreneurs.
So will crowd-funding platforms be the panacea for start-up funding? Matt Black of Social Enterprise Live caught up with Theresa to find out more.
The 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting kicked off today with a markedly sombre tone. Economic imbalances and rising inequality threaten to reverse the gains of globalization, according to the WEF report Global Risks 2012, released earlier this month, while the past year's global economic turmoil, spiraling debt crisis and social upheaval are surely weighing heavily on the minds and agendas of global leaders gathering in Davos.
The theme for this year's meeting is, appropriately, "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models." There is a recognition that our current system for economic and global governance is broken, and systemic change is required.
Mark January 24, 2012 in your calendar as the date when impact investing went mainstream in Canada. Today RBC, the largest of Canada’s Big Five (banks), has joined the growing ranks of major global institutions like Deutsche Bank, and national leaders like Vancity and le Chantier de l’économie sociale in demonstrating real leadership in impact investing.
The bank has just announced a $20 million commitment in an impact investing strategy that will include the creation of a new $10 million RBC Impact Fund and the allocation of $10 million from RBC Foundation’s assets into socially responsible investment (SRI) funds. It is the first initiative of its kind announced by a major financial institution in Canada.
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