http://socialventureexchange.org Connecting investors and ventures for social impact Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:58:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great debate on the Census is raging from coast to coast. We rarely experience such storied excitement, intrigue, and interest in public policy matters, from abrupt but principled resignations, to heroic acts to save swimmers from drowning, to headline news in the venerable New York Times. [It does seem ... http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=232 If you read the title of this post, don’t worry. This post isn’t about an old man in a bathtub, quantum physics, or floating continents. It’s about a different kind of displacement. There has been a building level of awareness and literacy on impact investing in the past few weeks, given increasing ... http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=175 There has been a great deal of recent discussion on impact investing: the zen-like space where investments have a financial return and demonstrated environmental or social impact.  Some may tell you that these opportunities exist just beyond the misty mountains of Pandora, in the lush, green Shire where Frodo and ... http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=149 Impact Investing: A global perspective on an emerging capital market from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo. http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=124 In the somewhat fantastical world of social enterprise, social finance, and social innovation, it is easy to get lost in the dazzling newness of the emerging space and the excitement of growing discussion about the possible. But we cannot forget why we are doing this work.  The why helps to anchor ... http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=117 Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation and Chair of the Board, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), will be visiting Toronto on April 6th and 7th to connect with leaders in mainstream and social finance and members of the general public to get Canadians engaged in impact investing. ... http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=108 Welcome to the home page for the social venture exchange project, a collaborative initiative of the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB), the TSX (an entity of the TMX Group Inc.) and Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS. Learn More. http://socialventureexchange.org/?p=1