I recently attended the Social Finance Forum, organized by the newly minted MaRS Centre for Impact Investing. A worthy event, to be sure, it provided me with much to ponder while offering a fascinating snapshot of this at-times-dynamic-at-other-times-stagnant social...
This past October in Montreal, I had the chance to attend the International Forum on Social Economy and Solidarity as a media delegate for SEE Change Magazine. This major event would not have been possible without the cooperation and participation of many local,...
{jcomments on} SEE Change Magazine recently partnered with Emerging Leaders Network(ELN) to organize the panel discussion: Bridging the Gap Through Social Enterprise. The event took place at CSI Spadina in downtown Toronto on October 19th and was a great success! ...
In our second report from the Social Venture Institute (SVI) at Hollyhock, Elisa Birnbaum from SEE Change Magazine sat down with Joel Solomon to chat about his work, what motivates him to get up each morning and his ever-optimistic vision of the social venture...
Last year in a Boston Globe article, Bill Gates claimed that providing vaccines to developing countries was easy compared to changing the education system. Those who have taken on the Sisyphean task of education reform know that that’s true. The education system is a...
It’s now 48 hours before the final exam of the Business Statistics course at Wilfrid Laurier University. In front of me are 400 sets of eyes staring at me, waiting to hear what I have to tell them. It has taken me just under three hours to take them through the course...
