Social Entrepreneurship

How Are You Designing the Future?

Lisa Heydlauff tells stories to inspire the children of Indian slums and villages to believe in their own possibilities; Paul Cheng works to improve the financial efficiency of charities and social enterprises out of London; Keely Stevenson in San Francisco invests in women due to the multiplier effect they have in support of long-term economic growth; And in Zurich, social entrepreneur, Roman Gaus, is developing a cost-efficient, sustainable and process-controlled way to grow food and roll out urban farms worldwide.

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Collaborative Consumption is Taking Us Back to Our Roots

Why own when you can access? This question is becoming more and more prevalent among city dwellers thanks to the rise of the sharing economy, which is revolutionizing the way we think about ownership by increasing access, reducing waste, and generally making life better. Collaborative consumption, or peer-to-peer economy, is allowing us to take a broader, innovative perspective of our owned assets.

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Social Finance Round Up: Federal, Provincial Budgets Highlight Social Finance

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 2, 2012.

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Here Comes the Impact Investing Crowd

When you’re looking for change, ask Obama or his American crowd.

They are about to change the game for emerging American businesses struggling to access capital and average investors looking to place capital in local, impact ventures.

After months of debate, the US government passed the bi-partisan Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act [PDF] (JOBS Act or HR 3606), new legislation designed to modify existing securities regulations, “…to make it easier for smaller businesses and startups to raise money from the public…”

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The Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund

Over the last few months, I have had the privilege of working with a group of talented people who have transformed the Social Finance Chain from a humble micro-loan program, into the national Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund, which provides debt and equity solutions to young social entrepreneurs who want to change the world. It has ambitious capital raising targets for the next year, and what amazes me is that the team has raised 20% towards its goal of $87,500 in only two months.

The Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund (YSI-CF) began with the idea that youth are brimming with innovative ideas on how to tackle the complex challenges that confront our society.

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