Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to RRSP Season. What you need to know RRSP season begins January 1 and lasts for the first 60 days of the year. During this period, one is able to make RRSP contributions to retroactively reduce the previous year’s income thereby reducing...
The increasing interest in using Social Return on Investment (SROI) as a way to understand and communicate the value that is created by an organization or program has led to important conversations among those who are passionate about creating change in their...
Before we begin to think about what the value of social enterprise might be, we need to be clear about what social enterprise actually is. While there is no specific legal definition of a social enterprise as an entity, and there are many different potential...
For the past several months, I have been studying the impact measurement agenda sitting alongside and beyond the typical boundaries of SiMPACT’s work. Examples of investments that are a part of the impact agenda include investments across a wide range of social issues...
Part 2: DECIDE In Part 1 of this article, we looked at design. Our example: Let’s take a small air pollution control company that wants to improve its triple bottom line. After the board of directors outlines their TBL policy guides, they have their company assessed...
Part 5 of Mike’s 5-part leadership series The University of British Columbia is one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious universities, and consistently ranks among the top 40 academic institutions in the world. Renowned for its Nobel Prize-winning...
