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- 2011 Social Finance Forum
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Jon E Worren Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 ...
Event - Anonymous - Nov 29 2011 - 3:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Social Finance: Its Promise and Its Challenges
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Eli Malinsky Thursday, April 7, 2011 You and your guests are invited to register for this session in our ...
Event - Anonymous - Mar 9 2011 - 4:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 'Business Makes Push for Charity Innovation' in the Globe
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It was a delight to see mention of Community Bonds in the Globe and Mail this week in their article about social finance. It is pretty darned exciting to see people talking about the different ways that we might use social finance to change the ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Jan 23 2011 - 4:45pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Many Happy Returns - Community Bonds in NOW magazine
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NOW Magazine's editor (and one of our amazing Board Members) Alice Klein writes about the growth of social impact investing in her article Many Happy Returns. In it, she profiles CSI's Community Bond offering. And today, we discoverd ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Jan 21 2011 - 3:15pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Social Finance Census 2010
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Yesterday, the The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), an incubated project at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) and the Social Venture Exchange (SVX), an initiative of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS, jointly released the first ever ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Dec 8 2010 - 2:17pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- DIY Community - Turning Ideas into Reality
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Finding a better way to get things done. It's become the rallying-cry of the past few years. From community gardens to the election of Barack Obama, people are fired up about the idea that they can play a role in altering - in improving - ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - May 26 2011 - 4:02pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Community Bonds: A Social Finance Innovation
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Working in partnership with members of the Ontario Social Economy Roundtable and the Ontario Nonprofit Network, CSI is pleased to present our briefing to the Provincial Partnership Project. In this paper, we are inviting the province to clarify and ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Oct 28 2010 - 4:15pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment
- Community Bonds
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Yesterday, I had the honour of delivering a TEDxToronto Talk. What I prepared and what I delivered were somewhat different.. but for those of you who would like to know more about Community Bonds and to hear the talk that I was supposed to give, here are ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Oct 1 2010 - 3:32pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with “social entrepreneurs”
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A great article in the Economist about the evolution of social entrepreneurship as a way to address pubic challenges. It is worth a read. http://www.economist.com/node/16789766?story_id=16789766&CFID=145057759&... Deep in the article, ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Aug 17 2010 - 10:32am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Peter Nares, a Canadian Social Innovator, announces retirement
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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 ...
Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - May 26 2010 - 6:04am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
