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New to social finance? Here’s what you need to know about this powerful new approach to investment that puts impact at the forefront.
Case Study: Kingston’s food bank pilot combines three innovative solutions for food insecurity
Carney’s National Food Strategy includes boosting local food production. Pilots are already deployed. The federal strategy is arriving to meet it, not lead it.
Explainer: What Realize Fund I’s final close says about the state of Canada’s social finance
Ottawa bet $400 million that public capital could build a private market for Canada’s social economy. Realize Fund I’s $276.7M close is the first real test.
Unlocking DAF potential: New relationships, new possibilities
Donor Advised Funds are at a crossroads in Canada. How do we use them to better serve transformational community change?
Inspirit Foundation’s 100% impact portfolio outperforms benchmark over 10-year period
Inspirit Foundation became the only Canadian foundation to successfully transition 100 per cent of its assets to impact investment in 2022. Since the foundation first made the commitment in 2016, its portfolio has made higher returns than a traditional portfolio would.
Explainer: Modelled after B.C.’s success, Quebec is building its first province-wide rent bank network
Rent banks are one of the few homelessness‑prevention tools that intervene before a crisis, stabilizing tenants at a fraction of the cost of emergency shelters or rehousing
Done improperly, impact investing can cause more harm than good: Advocates
At the Catalyst: Community Finance Summit in Winnipeg, leaders warned that poorly designed impact‑investing practices can retraumatize clients, distort ecosystems, and delay essential funding
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