On the Impact Investing Podcast, we aim to inspire and motivate people to never give up on themselves or their dreams as it pertains to property investing. We discuss highly relevant topics and issues as they pertain to successful property investing, whilst engaging with real people who are successful property investors from all walks of life. We discuss what motivates and drives them to successfully attack property investing head on and never give up.
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Get smarter about impact investing by joining us for a series of conversations with thought leaders and changemakers from all walks of life who are using for-profit approaches in surprising and creative ways to drive social and environmental impact. Sign up at www.impactinvesting.how for a ton of free resources to help you up your impact game.
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Values Investors Podcast | Socially Responsible Investing, ESG, Ethical, Impact, Sustainable Investments
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Values Investors Podcast focuses on providing information about Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Investments. SRI and ESG investing is an investment strategy seeking to maximize both financial return and social good. The SRIESG podcast was created to help make SRI easy for socially conscious investors who are concerned about how they invest and want to make change in our society through their investments.
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Inheritance: IRA Rules and Tax Implications
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Understanding Inheritance: A Comprehensive Guide for Financial Planning Discover the essential aspects of inheritance and financial planning in our comprehensive guide. Learn about IRA rules, taxes, and estate strategies. Inheritance can be a complex and emotionally charged topic. Inheritance laws, taxes, and planning strategies can feel like a maz…
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Empower Your Financial Future with the AIO Financial Retirement Planner App Welcome to a new era in retirement planning! At AIO Financial, a fee-only financial advisory firm, we are excited to unveil our groundbreaking Retirement Planner App. Designed to simplify your financial future, this tool helps you visualize and plan for your retirement with…
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Shareholder Advocacy in 2024: Steering Companies Towards a Better Future In 2024, advocates have been active, presenting over 527 resolutions that touch on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues for the proxy season. This shows a slight decrease from the 536 proposals of the previous year. Yet, the commitment to influencing positive cha…
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Take Charge of Your Finances with Our New Budgeting App Welcome to the world of simple budgeting! Gone are the days when managing your finances was a complex, tedious task. Our new app, designed for everyone from budgeting rookies to pros, transforms the way you handle your money. It’s time to show your money who’s boss – and yes, that’s you! Creat…
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Investing in green energy involves investing in companies that generate energy from renewable sources. These sources include solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, geothermal, and marine energy. Investing in green energy can support the development of clean and sustainable energy solutions. It can also help reduce dependence on fossil fuels, mitigate th…
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AffirmativESG: Tailoring Portfolios for Impactful Sustainable Investing
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Introduction to a New Era of Investing with AffirmativESG In a world increasingly attuned to the impacts of corporate actions on the environment and society, the demand for investments that reflect personal values and ethical considerations is soaring. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing (SRI) …
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I’m excited to have my interview podcast and video with Andy Behar, the As You Sow CEO, who has 30 years of experience as a Senior Executive and strategist in the cleantech, communications, and life science sectors. He served as COO for a social media agency focused on sustainability and has been a strategic consultant in the nonprofit sector. He i…
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49 - Building the field of regenerative media
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Modern media is both wonderful and scary. It represents both the best of what people have to offer and the worst. It can include beautiful works of art by independent artists that tell stories to lift the human spirit and pass along cultural lessons and values or, as is so often the case today, is a mindless clickbait article or listicle about “10 …
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48 - Addressing climate change & housing affordability through real estate development
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Real estate as an asset class has had an absolutely remarkably run since the 1980’s when we entered a several-decade period of economic prosperity, stable inflation, and declining interest rates. Add to that, more than a decade of quantitative easing that continued to ensure cheap financing was available for consumers and homebuyers alike. But as w…
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47 - Transforming our unsustainable and inhumane food systems
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Climate change is widely recognized as an existential threat to humanity. Chief among the contributors to climate change is our food systems. The advent of modern industrial farming brought with it a sharp increase in our ability to feed the planet. Yet this industrialization has been so rapid and so extreme that we’re now recognizing how unhealthy…
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46 - Why assets managers should be managing the risk of Gender-Based Violence
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Gender lens investing is a field that is far more robust and complex than most people realize. Often gender considerations are reduced to a check-box exercise where investors count the number of women being served, women-led businesses being financed, or women sitting on boards. More ambitious gender lens investors may expand the scope of their ana…
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45 - Investing for systemic change in a world of Web3
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In an era already notable for remarkable technological innovation, we are approaching a precipice that could potentially make the last 30 years of progress seem quaint by comparison. The dawn and convergence of artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, robotics, energy storage, and the blockchain threaten to fundamentally disrupt the status quo a…
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44 - The Rhodes scholar who is democratizing access to impact investments in Africa
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When you consider that the traditional investment industry can be traced as far back as ancient Mesopotamia in 1700 BCE, the field of impact investing is a baby. Indeed the term itself wasn't coined until 2007. Since then the industry has been evolving and growing rapidly. Yet much of that growth has been occurring among a relatively small group of…
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43 - Putting humanity back into Economics
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For all the good that impact investors claim to be doing, it behooves us to consider what harm we might be causing in the process and whether, ultimately, we're doing more damage than good. After all, impact investing is still investing. It exists within the current framework of free-market Capitalism. And as the deep fractures in that system have …
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42 - Leveraging technology and a human-centred focus to better manage crises response
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While some might argue that the world is a much better place than it was thousands, hundreds of years, or even decades ago, it's hard not to feel like the world’s problems are greater than ever. In the past five years alone we've experienced a string of heart-wrenching global crises that have come fast and furious. Haiti, India, Bangladesh, Indones…
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41 - Transforming idle church properties into thriving communities of sustainable impact
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Churches across the globe are in crisis. The arrival of COVID-19 served to dramatically accelerate a decades-long systemic decline in church attendance as the expectations and preferences of congregants have changed across generations. Falling church attendance has meant declining revenue and mounting financial pressure to maintain expensive real e…
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40 - The charity that gave birth to a $300M global impact asset manager
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Investing in emerging markets isn't easy. Investing in emerging markets when you want to make a positive social and environmental impact presents even more challenges. For instance, raising capital is more challenging because you have to overcome both the typical investor belief that positive impact will come at a cost to returns and the tendency t…
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39 - Exploring new possibilities by blending philanthropy and impact investing
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While the field of social finance and impact investing has blossomed in recent years, most people still tend to think about donating or impact investing as discrete activities with discrete approaches or strategies. Say the word "philanthropy" and most people think of oversized cheques at black-tie galas where your donations are spent by organizati…
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38 - Accelerating investment into diverse emerging fund managers
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Today there is a growing recognition that we need to get far more capital into the hands of people who have been systematically excluded from entrepreneurship. Historically capital has disproportionately been allocated to a very narrow slice of entrepreneurs who are ivy league educated, white men. Meanwhile, women, people of colour, LGBTQ and Indig…
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37 - Accelerating the flow of impact capital
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As much as investing for both purpose and profit is in vogue these days, there's still a wide gap between the number of people talking about impact investing and those doing it. The fact that impact capital doesn't flow nearly as freely as traditional investment capital, makes scaling a social enterprise or raising an impact fund all the more diffi…
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36 - Opportunities for impact in the mining industry
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Mining is an inherently challenging industry from an impact perspective since it's all about the removal and consumption of the earth's limited natural resources. The manner in which we have historically mined these resources has caused great harm to people, communities, and our planet. At the same time, our existence (as it stands today) absolutel…
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35 - Understanding the impact revolution with the father of impact investing
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In a meeting hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy in 2007, the term impact investing was coined. Yet seven years prior to that, in 2001, Sir Ronald Cohen (just Ronald Cohen at the time) was requested by the UK Treasury to establish the Social Investment Task Force (SITF). The SITF was tasked with exploring the ways in which the UK could cr…
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34 - Addressing the housing affordability crisis with impact investing
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Access to safe and affordable housing is absolutely essential to meeting humanity's most basic needs. Housing not only protects us from the elements but provides security and stability that's so important to our physical, emotional, and mental health. Yet even in the world's most developed markets, housing affordability is approaching crisis levels…
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33 - Challenging the Nobel-prize winning theory that stands in the way of impact investing
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In 1952, Harry Markowitz published a now-famous article where he proposed that investors should optimize portfolio expected return relative to volatility. Markowitz helped investors realize that by owning a diverse basket of investments, they could significantly reduce their risk without suffering a commensurate reduction in their expected return. …
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32 - Art activism as a force for impact with Benjamin Von Wong
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When we think about impact investing, art isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for most of us. Yet investors have used art to store and grow wealth for millennia. And few of us would deny the incredible power that art possesses to change hearts and minds and to motivate us into action. Who among us wasn’t touched deeply by Amanda Gorman’s spoke…
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31 - Impact investing through the eyes of an institutional money manager
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I have spent well over two decades working in the investment management industry. For the vast majority of that time, ESG and responsible investing toiled in obscurity and dismissed as the pursuit of impractical idealists. However, in recent years we reached a tipping point and the industry is racing to get in on the action by overhauling its marke…
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30 - A deep dive into gender lens investing with a true OG of the movement
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If impact investing requires us to address systemic inequalities, and it does, then you can’t claim to be an impact investor and ignore gender equality. Consider that women, girls and gender-diverse people represent half of the earth’s population and that in virtually every culture across the globe, for all of human history, they have been systemat…
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29 - The causes of wealth inequality that no one is talking about
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This is a special edition of the podcast. It is a recording of live a conversation we had on Clubhouse about the ways in which wealth inequality happens that no one is talking about. It features two guests from previous episodes whose work has some loose intersection points. I was excited to bring them together to discuss this important topic. It w…
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28 - A technology solution for solving the riddle of impact measurement and management
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The emphasis of this podcast is the very first word: impact. We’re constantly exploring how organizations and individuals can invest more responsibly, in a way that makes a real difference for people, communities, and the environment. That sounds simple enough. But when it comes time to measure the impact that an investment has made, that’s where m…
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27 - Building better private equity structures and practices for a more equitable world
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Private equity can be a wonderful thing. The combination of capital and expertise provided by private equity investors can help companies to grow and create jobs. This is particularly true for smaller and mid-sized companies which tend to be engines of job growth. But at the same time, traditional private equity structures have contributed to wealt…
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26 - Behind the scenes with an impact fund startup investing in African SMEs
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For decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has been a hotspot for foreign investment and international aid. It has also been subject to the kind of philanthropy that is often more destructive than helpful. As an impact investor, it’s imperative to understand what that type of philanthropy looks like and how to avoid it. Africa has also been facing funding cha…
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25 - Leveraging employee ownership to fight wealth inequality
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Welcome to episode 25 of the Impact Investing Podcast. The richest 26 people on earth own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion. The wealthiest 10% control 84% of the world’s wealth. Meanwhile, 4.8 billion people fight for just 2% of the world’s wealth. Reducing wealth inequality is possibly the biggest moral imperative of our time. It also hap…
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24 - The Purpose of Capital with Jed Emerson
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Given the capitalistic societies most of us live in, we spend an inordinate amount of time focused on accumulating, growing, and deploying capital. You could fill a library with all the books dedicated to the what and how of capital. Yet, we devote shockingly little time to considering the why of capital. Much in the same way Simon Sinek asks all b…
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23 - Breaking the shareholder primacy paradigm with alterantive ownership models
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Welcome to episode 23 of the Impact Investing Podcast. The idea of discussing ownership and legal structuring of businesses may not sound super exciting at first blush. However, it’s a vitally important topic, especially for impact businesses. The issue founders must contend with is, how do they protect the purpose/values of their business as it gr…
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22 - Empowering indigenous innovators & communities
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If there is a lesson to be learned for investors wishing to solve real social challenges, it’s that we need to do less talking and more listening. We need to make space for not only a diverse range of views and perspectives but particularly for those with lived experience. Perhaps nowhere is the need for listening and learning more pronounced than …
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21 - Harnessing the vast untapped potential of newcomers to Canada
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Newcomers to even the most welcoming countries, face significant challenges. From language and cultural barriers to finding affordable housing, all the way to the mental health challenges of being alone in a strange new place. And supporting newcomers during this difficult transition is not only a moral imperative but makes compelling economic sens…
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20 - How the Equality Fund is using Impact Investing to Fuel Feminist Futures
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Most people don’t automatically look to the public sector for the latest and greatest innovations. However, when it comes to the world of social finance, the public sector is, in many ways, leading the private sector. In our last episode, we explored the world of blended finance – where governments are finding innovative ways to use public funds to…
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19 - Fighting a $200 Billion per year predatory industry using microfinance
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Microfinance is an intervention that we usually think of as being valuable in a developing world context. The world is full of hard-working people with an entrepreneurial spirit who lack access to the necessary financing to get a business off the ground. Lending to these entrepreneurs has a host of societal benefits that include creating jobs and i…
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18 - How Blended Finance is being used to massively scale the amount of capital for impact investments
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For all the promise of Impact Investing, the amount of capital flowing into these investments still represents a tiny fraction of the overall pool of global investment capital. There is no single reason for this. However, a meaningful part of the equation boils down to the risk, or rather, the perceived risks of making impact investments. This is e…
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Take a look into the journey thus far of the host of the Impact Investing Podcast. In this episode, Samuel 'I Can Win' Ikhinmwin provides his views on the VALUE of Money, as he clarifies the connections which make him see things a little differently now.
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17 - Around the world of impact investing with Rehana Nathoo
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There are few people in the industry I enjoy chatting with more than Rehana Nathoo. As Founder and CEO of Spectrum Impact, and having worked across the philanthropic and impact investing landscape (including BNY Mellon, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Case Foundation), Rehana's experiences and perspectives are endlessly fascinating. In this epi…
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Take a look into the ten key takeaways from the Grant Cardone 10x Business Bootcamp in London. In this episode, Samuel 'I Can Win' Ikhinmwin provides his breakdown of the fourth of the ten takeaways from his time spent with Grant at the Business Bootcamp.
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16 - Reinventing Commercial Banking for Good
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Commercial banking isn’t exactly known for being a warm and fuzzy business. Financial institutions provide a wide range of banking services to businesses large and small. However, existing banks and financial services providers often employ very standardized approaches that don't serve all businesses equally well. This is particularly apparent in c…
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15 - The best social return on investment? The case for delivering micro nutrients during the first 1,000 days of life
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Jeff Baikowitz of Motherfood International and Melani O'Leary of World Vision Canada, join us today’s episode. Jeff is the Founder of Motherfood which has developed a particularly interesting model to bring great tasting, low cost, fortified foods to pregnant and lactating moms to address a hyper-critical period for babies and moms known as the fir…
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14 - Pioneering high-impact investments that create opportunity for the world's most vulnerable people
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I decided to flip the script for this episode and give listeners a glimpse into what I'm passionate about and the work that I do. My friend and colleague Anne-Marie Vettorel takes over as host. During this episode, we discuss my origin story, my early career in the investment industry, some embarrassing confessions (warning: you may learn more abou…
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13 - Revitalizing the Indigenous economy by investing in Indigenous entrepreneurs
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Jeffrey Cyr of Raven Indigenous Capital Partners (RCIP) joins us for today’s episode. Jeff is Managing Partner at RCIP; Canada’s first Indigenous financial intermediary. Its mission is to empower Indigenous entrepreneurs with the capital and expertise they need to succeed. Jeff joins us on the podcast to discuss how RCIP is making transformative in…
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12 - Serving high net worth individuals, foundations, and institutions
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Upkar Arora of Rally Assets joins us for today’s episode. Upkar is Chief Executive Officer at Rally Assets; A full-service impact investing firm helping investors align their investments with their values. Rally is a new brand but has a rich history in the impact investment space in Canada under previous ownership under the name Purpose Capital. Th…
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11 - How to profit off the transition to a low carbon economy
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Trish Nixon of CoPower Inc. joins us for today’s episode. Trish is Managing Director and Head of Capital at CoPower Inc.; an online platform allowing Canadians to access impact investments that will help accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. Sadly the impact investment space right now is predominantly populated by private investments w…
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10 - Challenging traditional philanthropy
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Sharon Avery of Toronto Foundation joins us for today’s episode. Sharon is President & CEO of Toronto Foundation (TF); one of the 191 community foundations across Canada which holds nearly $500 million in assets. As a community foundation, Toronto Foundation is a charity but not a cause. It exists to contribute time, leadership, and money to suppor…
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9 - Canada's New $800 Million Social Finance Fund
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Stephen Huddart of McConnell Foundation joins us for today’s episode. Stephen is President & CEO of McConnell Foundation; Canada’s second oldest private foundation which is responsible for roughly $650 million in assets. The foundation focuses on impacting a broad range of issues such as Indigenous reconciliation, the changing nature of work, food …
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