The Canadian government’s forthcoming social finance strategy is exploring setting up a Big Society Capital-style wholesaler. Is social investment about to take off in Canada? David Floyd reports from the tenth annual Social Finance Forum.
Following the launch of UnLtd’s Impact Fund this month, Ben Smith, UnLtd’s investment lead, explores what investors and intermediaries need to change for social ventures to start achieving impact at scale.
Billions of dollars are now invested to create social impact as well as financial return. But with powerful new players such as Goldman Sachs and the Ford Foundation striding into this maturing market, will the sector’s original values be lost?
A new database, launched today at SOCAP17 in San Francisco, aims to help social entrepreneurs all over the world find the support and finance they need to grow their businesses.
Social investors and organisations seeking social investment often struggle to find each other. An award-winning match-making service has seen 200 successful deals across the Asia-Pacific so far this year.
More than 1 million Scottish people have benefited from social investment over the past year, according to an annual impact report by Social Investment Scotland.
Government ministers and leaders from across the Asia-Pacific will push forward social enterprise and impact investment following a meeting at the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017.
