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Diane Berard

Diane Bérard is the Future of Good reporter on Canadian social finance and impact investing. 

Diane's Latest Articles

Q&A: Trottier Foundation head on why they’re hiring an inside shareholder engagement director to battle climate change

Trottier Foundation is adding direct dialogue with companies it invests in as a tool to accelerate climate action.

Social Venture Connexion SVX Closes the Market Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
SVX launches major update to impact investing opportunity database

The database aims to direct more capital flows toward meaningful change

Report Card: Non-profit leaders give their score for Federal Budget 2024

The budget for 2024 has dropped. How will this impact non-profits, charities and other social purpose organizations?

The B.C. pilot project that prevents affordable housing loss

Called the Rental Protection Fund, the government of B.C. created a $500 million fund to help non-profits buy affordable housing units

Financial literacy as an antidote to stress

Financial stress affects our sleep, behaviour, relationships and performance. Financial literacy is critical to reducing this pressure and increasing general wellbeing.

UNICEF looks to test its child-lens investing framework

Assessing whether an investment harms or contributes to the wellbeing of children is the humanitarian organization’s goal

What 2024 holds for social finance

From transition finance to the impact of real estate on climate change solutions, here are eight things Future of Good expects to make news in the social finance sector this year.

Second and third from the left, Derek Ballantyne, CEO of Boann Social Impact, and Jeff Cyr, co-founder of Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, at the Outcomes Finance Summit
Canada’s Social Finance Fund’s first investment champions outcomes financing

The first investment will go to the Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund

Headshot of Courtney Kehoe, GM of the Nature Investment Hub.
Nature Investment Hub hopes to generate $20B for natural land conservation and restoration in Canada

Hub hopes to bring all stakeholders to the table to create robust nature-based solutions and attract investors to finance them

In conversation with Mansib Rahman, co-founder and CEO of Radish

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