Harnessing the market for social good
The Canadian social marketplace has been on the drawing board for about 30 years. You might even ask, “What is a social marketplace?” It’s a mechanism where the power of business and market transactions are leveraged to enhance social well-being.
Socially Responsible Investing – Big dollars, Big change.
Will socially responsible investing ever really catch on? I asked that question when I conducted a study for Vancity Credit Union on the future of socially responsible investing (SRI) five years ago. Today, the answer is ‘thumbs up’. Pretty well every prediction from that study played out, particularly the mainstreaming of SRI.