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Government releases social finance report
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Earlier this week, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) released its report - Harnessing the Power of Social Finance – containing the findings of the call for concepts that the depart
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Friday, May 10, 2013 2:49:00 PM
dominique biron-bordeleau
Credit unions make 2013 list of greenest employers
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Two of Canada’s credit unions have been recognized for making environmental sustainability a key measure of what they do and how they do it. To mark Earth Day, today’s Globe and Mail includes a fea
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Monday, April 22, 2013 9:48:00 AM
Kevin Dorse
Seminar and new report on innovative financing and impact investing
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Yesterday, folks with an interest in social finance gathered in one of Ottawa’s most architecturally innovative buildings to hear about innovation in financing and impact investing. Edward Jackso
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:50:00 PM
dominique biron-bordeleau
Two webinars on social finance taking place this month
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Don’t miss two upcoming webinars on social finance offered by MaRS Centre for Impact Investing free of charge. The first webinar Blended Financing for Impact: The Opportunity for Social Finance i
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Friday, March 15, 2013 10:59:00 AM
dominique biron-bordeleau
New publications on socially minded investors’ use of social finance measurements
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Two new publications are out about measuring the impact of social finance. The first publication is the Guidebook for Impact Investors: Impact Measurement, while the second is a report entitled So
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:17:00 PM
dominique biron-bordeleau
Credit unions: a closer look at one quarter of Canada’s social finance assets
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This post by Kevin Dorse, Manager of Advocacy at Canadian Central first appeared last week on the blog of our friends over at SocialFinance.ca. Social finance, defined as an investment with the goal
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Monday, February 25, 2013 9:20:00 AM
Kevin Dorse
How's your credit union involved in microfinance?
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Credit unions are among the leaders in microfinance in Canada and one credit union branch manager has decided to make credit union microfinance practices the topic of her Master’s thesis. In her res
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:48:00 PM
dominique biron-bordeleau
Articles point to social finance joining the mainstream
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Social finance is becoming one of the hot topics of 2013. In the last two weeks, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published three new articles that are worth a read on the topic. All three articles
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:12:00 PM
dominique biron-bordeleau
Growth in socially responsible investments outpaces market
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Investors are backing socially responsible firms and funds at a rate much higher than the rest of the market. In a report released today, analysts found that assets in socially responsible investment
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:13:00 AM
Kevin Dorse
How can credit unions take social finance to the next level?
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The response surprised me. Facilitating a workshop on social finance at the Canadian Conference for Credit Union Leaders in Niagara Falls in 2011, I asked “how many credit unions in the room do socia
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Friday, December 07, 2012 10:19:00 AM
Kevin Dorse
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