Philanthropy

How to Create an Impact Investing Movement

There is a systemic issue in impact investing that constantly resurfaces, from research papers to goals of foundations in the realm of impact investing: lack of infrastructure to help people identify and function as a part of the impact industry.

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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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Social Finance Round Up: Global Financial Inclusion Database Launched

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 April 23, 2012.

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The Community Forward Fund Launches: Remarks from the CEO

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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