Social Finance Educational Information

Key documents from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. which highlight evolving thinking and new initiatives in Social Finance.

• Deutsche Bank study - Microfinance: An Emerging Investment Opportunity (PDF, 525kb)
• Bridges Community Ventures - Equity-like capital for social ventures (PDF, 639kb)
• Developing a Social Equity Capital Market 2006 (PDF, 817kb)
• Edmonton Social Enterprise Fund (PDF, 138kb)
• Enterprising Communities 2000 - Wealth Beyond Welfare (PDF, 975kb)
• Enterprising Communities 2003 - Wealth Beyond Welfare (PDF, 560kb)
• Enterprising Communities 2005 - Wealth Beyond Welfare (PDF, 420kb)
• Growing Opportunity - Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems (PDF, 307kb)
• Investing for Impact - Managing and Measuring Proactive Social Investments (PDF, 1.7MB)
• Investing in Change Mission-Based Investing for Foundations Endowments and NGOs (PDF, 1MB)
• Mixing Mission and Business - Does Social Enterprise Need A New Legal Approach (PDF, 193kb)
• New Frontiers in Mission-Related Investing (PDF, 307kb)
• Nothing Ventured - Nothing Gained - Addressing the Critical Gaps in Risk-taking Capital for Social E (PDF, 490kb)
• Putting the Endowment to Work for Mission (PDF, 205kb)
• Report on Nonprofit Investment Capital Roundtable (PDF, 330kb)
• Scalable Solutions - The role of social entrepreneurship in solving sustainability challenges (PDF, 209kb)
• Scan of the Community Investment Sector in Canada 2004 (PDF, 174kb)
• Social Economgy and Community Economic Development in Canada - Next Steps for Public Policy - 2005 (PDF, 411kb)
• The Blended Value Map (PDF, 2.5MB)
• The future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration (PDF, 793kb)
• The Social Investment Bank (PDF, 2.8MB)
• Vancouver Homelessness Funding Model (PDF, 632kb)

SOURCE: TidesCanada