SocialFinance.ca is looking for two qualified individuals to share responsibility for the position of Volunteer Assistant Editor from June to September 2012. The candidates should have strong written communication skills, comfort in the world of online media, and an interest in social finance and impact investing. (Brownie points if they can score a hole-in-one. On a weekly basis.)
Deadline for application: 5:00pm ET, Monday, May 28th.
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.
Opened in late 2011, the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (the Centre) is designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance by catalyzing new capital, talent and collaborative initiatives to deliver innovative solutions to Canada’s social and environmental challenges. Now that the Centre has been in operation for three months, we are keen to share with the community our goals and our progress to date.
As announced by the Canadian Co-operative Association and others last recently, the termination of the Co-operative Development Initiative and the drastic cuts to the Rural and Co-operatives Secretariat will have a significant impact on the development of new co-operative businesses, jobs, and services for communities throughout Canada.
In a year that the United Nations has declared the “International Year of Cooperatives” - which the federal government endorsed at the United Nations and has been a partner in supporting - the elimination of the only federal government program dedicated to co-op development is not only hard to understand, it is misguided and will result in a negative economic impact much greater than the short-term spending that is “saved.”
The Community Forward Fund is an innovative fund that provides loans to charities and non-profits. Its manager, CFFAC, also provides financial coaching services. Its vision is a sustainable non-profit and charitable sector. In April, along with several of their partners and supporters, the CFF marked the official opening of their Fund at a celebration hosted by Citizens Bank at their Toronto offices.
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Your Guide helps social entrepreneurs learn how to attract financing for their social ventures.
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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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