Business Plans for Social Enterprises

Business Plans for Social Enterprises

Writing a business plan helps to ensure you focus on the core of your business. You must concentrate on key...
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NPO Leader’s Managing Change and Becoming Social Entrepreneurs: Applying Lewin’s 3-Step Model

NPO Leader’s Managing Change and Becoming Social Entrepreneurs: Applying Lewin’s 3-Step Model

The Sector Inc Thought of the Day: Starting a Social Enterprise in a Charity/Non-profit: What are the natural cultural drivers...
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Featured Impact Fund: Try, Test and Learn Fund (Australia)

Featured Impact Fund: Try, Test and Learn Fund (Australia)

Using insights from the Australian Priority Investment Approach to Welfare, the $96.1 million Try, Test and Learn Fund is trialing new...
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Launching a Social Enterprise: Structural and Pre-Operational Considerations – Andrew Valentine.

Launching a Social Enterprise: Structural and Pre-Operational Considerations – Andrew Valentine.

What planning issues should be considered when establishing a social enterprise? When a social entrepreneur considers beginning a new social...
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Featured Impact Investor: ACTIAM

Featured Impact Investor: ACTIAM

ACTIAM is a trendsetter when it comes to impact investing. They launched they're first institutional funds in microfinancing as early...
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Featured Impact Investor: Vital Capital Fund

Featured Impact Investor: Vital Capital Fund

Vital Capital Fund is a private equity fund with approximately $350 million in assets. The fund invests in developing areas,...
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Featured Impact Investor: S3IDF

Featured Impact Investor: S3IDF

The Firm S3IDF uses its Social Merchant Bank Approach (SMBA) to provide entrepreneurs with three bundled services: leveraged co-financing, technology...
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The Landscape for Social Impact Investing – a White Paper

The Landscape for Social Impact Investing – a White Paper

Excerpt taken from the full report, available here: https://thesectorinc.ca/wp-content/uploads/attachments/The-Landscape-for-Social-Impact-Investing-a-White-Paper-Links.pdf Introduction: "Opportunity for Impact Impact investing is a term that has...
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Featured Social Financier: RBC Generator

Featured Social Financier: RBC Generator

The RBC Generator is a $10-million pool of capital for investment in businesses that tackle social and environmental challenges, while...
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Featured Social Financier: Rashi Foundation in Israel

Featured Social Financier: Rashi Foundation in Israel

The Rashi Foundation is an independent, private philanthropic foundation dedicated to assisting the underprivileged in Israel, particularly children and youth....
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BLENDED FINANCING FOR IMPACT:TOOLKIT FOR SOCIAL FINANCE &SUPPORTIVE HOUSING –

BLENDED FINANCING FOR IMPACT:TOOLKIT FOR SOCIAL FINANCE &SUPPORTIVE HOUSING –

A Report by MaRS Centre for Impact Investing SOCIAL FINANCE AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING What is social finance? Social finance, or...
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Social finance around the world

Social finance around the world

International developments Although the concept of linking private capital to societal improvement has been around for decades in many jurisdictions,...
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It’s time for a Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy for Canada.

It’s time for a Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy for Canada.

In 2017, the Government of Canada created the Social Innovation & Social Finance Strategy Co-Creation Steering Group. The group provided...
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Getting Ontario Readyfor the Social Finance Fund – Candian CED Network

Getting Ontario Readyfor the Social Finance Fund – Candian CED Network

Authors: Denyse Guy and Carolyn Pletsch, Guy & Associates Advisory Group: Michael Toye, Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet); Liz...
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GOVERNMENT’S SOCIAL FINANCE FUND INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR STARTUPS – ISABELLE KIRKWOOD

GOVERNMENT’S SOCIAL FINANCE FUND INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR STARTUPS – ISABELLE KIRKWOOD

The federal government recently announced the first organizations that will be responsible for implementing a program created to help support...
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IS YOUR CHARITY READY FOR SOCIAL FINANCE? 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW – Adam Jog.

IS YOUR CHARITY READY FOR SOCIAL FINANCE? 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW – Adam Jog.

In the fall of 2018, the Government of Canada announced that it would be committing $755 million dollars towards the...
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Free (Online) Consultation – COVID-19

Free (Online) Consultation – COVID-19

The world is turned upside down, and it is clear that the current corona crisis is having a major social...
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Effect research into the social value of IPSO walk-in houses – A Sinzer Case

Effect research into the social value of IPSO walk-in houses – A Sinzer Case

Commissioned by the Dutch Cancer Society and in collaboration with IPSO (Institutes for Psychosocial Oncology) drop-in centers, we carried out...
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Social business case for integrated treatment of young adults with a DSM dia – A Sinzer Case Study.

Social business case for integrated treatment of young adults with a DSM dia – A Sinzer Case Study.

Almost all young adults (16-27 years) who suffer from complex psychiatric problems also have a request for help in the...
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The Kent Impact Model: measuring impact for a Consortium of UK charities – EMMA VERHEIJKE

The Kent Impact Model: measuring impact for a Consortium of UK charities – EMMA VERHEIJKE

During the Social Value Members Exchange 2016 in Birmingham last November, Aleron and Sinzer jointly presented the Kent Impact Model...
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