Jan 17, 2019 | Community, Inclusion, Social Enterprise, Social Finance
A future of inclusive growth and full participation by everyone in society. This short phrase, or some variation, has been rolling around in my head over the past months.
Nov 30, 2018 | BC’s Affordable Housing Conference, Housing, Housing Central, Social Enterprise, Social Venture Development
What does it take to bring innovative housing ideas together to imagine the future of community housing in Canada?
May 2, 2018 | case study, case study: advisory services, Social Enterprise
In 2014, our President Ken Gauthier was invited on a traditional moose hunt near Fraser Lake, BC, with Paul Lacerte (and his Son Kelleh), then Executive Director of the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres. Paul and his family, originally of Carrier...
Mar 1, 2018 | Social Enterprise, Social Finance
Program-Related Investments is the third post in our series about social finance tools. Urban Matters’ Social Finance Lead, Jerome Lengkeek, explores Program-Related Investments (PRIs), how social entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and charities can...
Feb 1, 2018 | Social Enterprise, Social Finance
This is post #1 in a series as we explore a number of different social finance tools and how they work in different contexts. Seed Funds: what they are and how they work Seed funds are set up by investors or fund managers who wish to create a pool of start-up or...
Sep 26, 2017 | Social Enterprise, Social Innovation
Stan Leyenhorst was born into a big family in Richmond B.C. He had 11 siblings and grew up a hardworking kid on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley. One summer night at the age of 16, the course of Stan’s life was forever altered when he dove into a friend’s backyard...
Sep 11, 2017 | Indigenous Communities, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation
By Trina Wamboldt, Community Catalyst It’s high time that the socio-economic status of Indigenous peoples in Canada becomes equal to that of non-Indigenous Canadians. While it seems that things are trending in the right direction with education, employment and income...
Jul 28, 2017 | Indigenous Communities, Social Enterprise, Social Finance
First Nations Social Enterprise Creates Sustainable Food Access When Shaun Loney visited Garden Hill First Nations for the first time in 2014, he showed up with an empty stomach. Despite having the ability to pay, there was nowhere to buy a meal. A modern grocery...
Jun 26, 2017 | Social Enterprise, Social Innovation
It is not every day Ken Gauthier gets an invitation to Fogo Island – an offshore island off of the northeast coast of Newfoundland, home to the world-famous Fogo Island Inn. Invited by the Smith School of Business to the Queen’s Centre for Social Impact Workshop, Ken...
Jun 21, 2017 | Indigenous Communities, Social Enterprise
Hello Canada! My name is Michael Flood, I’m 21 years old, and I grew up on the beautiful Wolastoq river in southern New Brunswick, a region settled by my Irish ancestors in the early 19th century. I’m currently studying in the PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics)...
May 3, 2017 | Social Enterprise, Social Finance
For some of us the term social finance is a bit obscure, and sometimes we have some disagreements about what we mean when we use this term. Urban Matters’ new Social Finance Director, Jerome Lengkeek, decodes some of the terminology in this article. Defining Social...
Apr 25, 2017 | Social Enterprise
Academic institutions are a treasure chest of opportunity as they host some of the brightest and most creative minds in our communities – people who have the ability to focus, research, analyze and connect the dots on some of the most complex, systemic issues faced by...
