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More Than Just Impact

The biosphere needs more than just making an impact.

From the discussions held at SOCAP: Designing the Future in Malmö, it is clear that impact investing needs to up the game and take into account how different forms of capital interact with each other, and provide a resilient system.

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Social Finance Round Up: Looking to the Future of Social Innovation

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 14, 2012.

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SOCAP: Designing the Future on SocialFinance.ca

Today, SOCAP returned to Europe - this time with no less ambitious a goal than designing the future itself. The speaker list and schedule have been out for several weeks now, and over 400 people will be thronging Malmo University, Sweden, enjoying the event live. Here at SocialFinance.ca, we'll be covering the event both online and in person through Jonathan Sundqvist. Watch out for his posts over the next few days.

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Social Finance Round Up: IFC Launches $500M Green Bond in US

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 7, 2012.

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Video: A Hope That Saves in Rwanda

Faith. Prosperity. Microfinance. Evangelism. Collective Renewal. How are all these things connected in a virtuous cycle?

Our Video of the Week is from HOPE International, a Canadian international development agency, and tells the story of their small savings circle program which builds communities around spiritual and material sustenance.

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