B Corporations have been making a lot of noise in 2012. Today, Canadian enterprises shared the spotlight, as B Lab – the non-profit behind B Corps - announced the 39 Founding Canadian B Corporations (Press Release, PDF). SocialFinance.ca also received an email from Vale Jokisch, Director of Services, B Lab to share with the community in Canada. Read more to see a video of co-founder Jay Coen Gilbert on B Corps, as well as a surprise!
In an article written for The Philanthropist, Nora Sobolov, President and CEO of the Community Forward Fund, provides insight into alternative financing options for nonprofits. In Why you should care: how charities, nonprofits, and foundations can benefit from social finance, she discusses a number of ways to secure flexible funding that can help bridge the gaps between grant funding and project-based funding.
This series of blogs talks about social purchase as a way to bolster demand for the goods and services produced by social enterprises. The Caledon Institute recommended this approach to the City of Hamilton as one option in pursuing its goal of social inclusion. The City was interested in this objective in respect of its role as co-host of the PanAm Games in 2015. For background, please read the previous post: Enough Talk. Where's the Action?
Turns out Vancouver helped blaze the trail*. The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee actively employed a Community Benefits Agreements approach described in blog #2 in this series. The benefits of a contract must go to more than just the successful bidders. Vancouver’s experience in developing Community Benefits Agreements grew from its commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability.
The lure of technology lies in its dynamism. The development of sleeker hardware and faster software lingers just around the corner, fueling the competitive desire to get to it first. Within the organizations birthed by this drive, the lights are dim, the drive is high, and snacks abound to keep you energized.
It’s this type of drive, curiosity and competition that brings some technology entrepreneurs, as investors, to the world of social enterprise.
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 January 30.
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