Since TEDGlobal took place this week, it is only appropriate to share a TED Talk relevant to social finance for this week's Video of the Week. Willy Foote, founder and CEO of Roote Capital, took the stage at TEDxBYU, hosted at Brigham Young University in Utah in February. In this inspiring talk, he described the importance of supporting agriculture by filling "the Missing Middle", and talked about his personal experience in forming Root Capital.
On June 20, 2011, the Canadian Responsible Investment Conference kicked off in Victoria, British Columbia, with the theme Creating Value, Making a Difference. The conference highlighted the opportunities for socially responsible investors to profit from investing while contributing to positive social change and environmental sustainability. Apart from keynotes, this conference also featured a series of roll-up-your-sleeves technical sessions on socially responsible investing for financial advisors, portfolio managers and analysts, and foundations, angel investors and venture capital companies. In one of these sessions, Dr. Olaf Weber gave a presentation on the relationship between sustainable development performance and financial performance.
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 13, 2011.
Social finance is often discussed on a domestic level. However, it could and should play a role in a global sustainable development context as well. It is urgently needed to tackle some of the most basic challenges for sustainable development: fighting hunger, reducing the need for fossil energy and creating a knowledge-based democracy.
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 13, 2011.
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