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 August 2, 2011.
ACCESS Community Capital Fund is hiring a full-time Program Coordinator to join our small team working to build and expand an organization that is becoming a key player in promoting micro-lending and economic development in Toronto communities. The position will aim to provide support to loan applicants and recipients as well as assisting the various Loan Review Committees in their evaluation cycles and lending activities. The individual will also be responsible for managing ACCESS’ outreach initiatives and oversee the client intake process.
Interested applicants should submit a Cover Letter and resume or CV addressed to Alex Kjorven at hiring@accessccf.com by Monday August 8th, 2011. To view the complete role description, please read below.
Over the past year especially, we have witnessed the notion of a separate Canadian legal structure for social enterprise taking root. Recently, in a project led by Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development, we at the BC Centre for Social Enterprise had the pleasure of supporting a Canada-wide poll of the social enterprise sector. The survey asked community-based social enterprise operators, and thought leaders on the topic, whether they perceived a need for a separate Canadian legal structure for social enterprise, and if so, what characteristics such a structure should contain.
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 July 25, 2011. Note: Since this Monday's Round Up was dedicated to Canadian news, here's a selection of the best on the web around social finance in the last week.
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 July 25, 2011. Note: This week, we are delighted to present a Round Up dedicated to Canadian news.




























