Community bonds, public lands, RRSP's, tax incentives and preferential mortgages - this is what will strengthen social enterprise in Ontario. CSI is looking for some quick and easy wins to move social enterprise forward. What do you think?
Enablers
Last week, R. Andrew Sweeny, President of The Philadelphia Foundation, published an editorial in the The Philadelphia Inquirer that includes some tough-love but sound advice for nonprofit managers. The editorial, although targeted at nonprofits operating in the Philadelphia area, rings true north of the Canada-U.S. border.
The fur trade in Canada provides a distant mirror for Social Finance advocates and practitioners on the complex effects of any new technology. It makes us mindful that every intervention has side effects, both positive and negative.
How close is too close? The new UK Conservative government has cut the Office of the Third Sector and is changing how social enterprises in the UK gain access to financing. The Office of the Third Sector was located in the Cabinet Office and had close attention of Labour who created strategies for driving capital and building skills towards social enterprise.
Someone recently asked me what I thought was more important for a movement to take off: a core group of people who are willing to dedicate their all to pushing it forward or a dispersed mass with just enough conviction to support or approve of what other people are doing. To me, the two are inseparable. As was demonstrated by a TEDtalk illustration of a movement happening at the Sasquatch Music Festival, every sporadic dance party requires a first mover, as well as people willing to follow.
Jeff Mowatt on Three Business Models for the Bottom Billion
Sep 03, 2010