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 June 6, 2011.
This is a video of Toby Eccles, founder of Social Finance (UK), explaining the Social Impact Bond (SIB) pilot undertaken in U.K. in spring 2010. The first such program in the world, it is a six-year pilot aimed at reducing reoffending rates of prisoners after they have been released. SIBs are an innovative method of financing social outcomes through collaboration between government, private investors, and social service agencies.
Last week, the first preliminary evaluation report from this SIB was released by the Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom. Based on interviews of those involved in developing and implementing the SIB, it aims to identify early lessons in SIB implementation.
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 9, 2011.
Throughout the past few weeks, many issues have been discussed on the election campaign trail - health care, support for the elderly, corporate taxes, and more. Government spending has certainly been a talking point as well. Unfortunately, social entrepreneurship and social finance have been missing from the conversation.
Please join our TweetChat below, starting at 2:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT). You can also participate through Twitter, using the hashtag #sofinance. The conversation will be underway for an hour, covering the following agenda:
We look forward to seeing your ideas and thoughts about how financing social entrepreneurship can become part of the national political agenda!
On Thursday, April 28th, SocialFinance.ca will be hosting a live chat about social finance and the Canadian federal election. We invite you to join in a discussion about how and why social finance and social entrepreneurship can be included in the election debate and agenda of the incoming federal government.
To participate in the chat, simply log into Twitter, follow and use the hashtag #sofinance. We will be using CoveritLive on SocialFinance.ca to track the conversation, where you can also post comments and follow the discussion.
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