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 19, 2012.
Recently, I traveled to Kenya to witness firsthand social entrepreneurship and impact investing at work. I met a local entrepreneur in a little town on the coast with a small idea that left a big impression on me. Johnson Kithendu is on a mission to improve the living conditions of people in his area using innovative and environmentally sustainable building techniques.
Creating financial models that can support the work of people like Johnson Kithendu will expand and build upon our vision of what is possible. The Partnering for Global Impact conference aims to match social entrepreneurs with the right type of investor, donor or partner.
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 12, 2012.
This series of blogs talks about social purchasing as a way to bolster demand for the goods and services produced by social enterprises. The last post described community benefits agreements in Vancouver in 2010.
Previously, initiatives in Vancouver and Glasgow were featured; but the City of Calgary has also helped pave the way. Ethics are doing the driving.
Part 1 of this blog post highlighted some difficulties faced by social entrepreneurs in Asia; Part 2 profiles Synergy Social Ventures, which supports social enterprise, and ties in lessons for the broader world of social finance.
Synergy Social Ventures is a not-for-profit organization that was created in response to the challenges we saw preventing social enterprises from accelerating in Southeast Asia and China. In our work with entrepreneurs throughout the region, we identified a number of commonalities.
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Your Guide to Social Finance
SocialFinance.ca hosts an online guide that helps social entrepreneurs learn how to attract financing for their social ventures.
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