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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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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It is often remarked that good intentions are not enough. We all know about projects and visions animated by excellent intentions that either failed completely, or inadvertently created as many problems as solutions. The role of social finance in microfinance is just such a tale.

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For some months now, I have been investigating the notion of a micro-credit program for Ontario artists. If you are a professional artist in Ontario, then please run - don’t walk - to the MARProject Survey. And if you know one, please forward this blog post to them. The survey is open to professional artists of any discipline – visual arts, media arts, dance, music, theatre, writing or other. It is about increasing the financing opportunities available to artists.

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Over the past year, attention given to the international microfinance industry has continued to be fixated upon scandals – such as the suicides among borrowers in Andhra Pradesh, India – which led to the ‘great Indian microfinance crisis.’ Despite significant industry efforts, as of August 2011 the situation in Andhra Pradesh had only improved slightly.

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