Centre for Social Innovation - Where Change Happens!

A pioneering social innovator, Peter Nares created SEDI in 1986, an organization that has been instrumental in developing financial tools that improve the lives of people living in poverty. Peter's work bridges the gap between what works in communities to effective policy development and ultimately, large scale results. Learn more about Peter and SEDI in the press release below!

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We are delighted to have Tim Draimin as a guest blogger as a part of our conversation about social enterprise leading up to the Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise. We would love your thoughts both in response to this posting and through the Social Enterprise Wiki.... But now, check out Tim's compelling case for Comunity Interest Companies in Canada.

By Tim Draimin

We are delighted to have Karim Harji of Social Capital Partners and co-creator of SocialFinance.ca as our guest blogger as a part of our Social Enterprise Series. Karim provides a primer on social finance in Canada. What kind of money do you want? Is financing your major barrier or are there are capacity issues facing your social enterprise? Read Karim's case for social financing tools.

Increase Access to Capital for Social Enterprises

I am delighted to be on the board of the Vartana Bank initiative and honoured to be a part of helping to provide banking services to the sector... okay, it has been a little slow in coming - but the outcome is fantastic.... through a partnership with Van City and Citizen's Bank, we are now going to be able to start offering banking services to the nonprofit and charitable sector in the GTA... this is great news....