Apr 17, 2019 | Civic Social Innovation, Community, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) is the kind of celebration we embrace at Urban Matters CCC.
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 15, 2018 | Social Finance, Social Innovation
This is the second post in our series about social finance tools and our view on how they can be applied in various contexts. In the first post of our series on Social Finance, Jerome Lengkeek, Urban Matters’ Social Finance Lead, gave us a comprehensive look at...
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...
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...
