by Rohit Mehta | Mar 24, 2020 | DoGood News, Fundraising News, Fundraising Tips, Social Enterprise
With everything going on in our country and currently in the world, I felt the need to write to you in these unprecedented times. As we are all practicing self isolation, our local and global economy is changing daily. These changes will impact each of us for the...
by Rohit Mehta | Mar 10, 2020 | Social Enterprise
Government’s social finance fund includes support for startups Source: Betakit The Investment Readiness Program, as it is called, is a $50 million project meant to help social purpose businesses become investment ready, in order to access the $755 million Social...
by Rohit Mehta | Mar 10, 2020 | Social Enterprise
Canada’s social economy about to get a boost, but problems remain Source: Rabble The federal government has initiated and funded, with serious money, a brand-new program creating the Social Finance Fund, to drastically expand the social economy. This year, $50...
by Rohit Mehta | Mar 10, 2020 | Social Enterprise
Ten Thousand Villages Canada Winds Down Operations Source: Nonprofit Quarterly Ten Thousand Villages Canada announced the closure of its corporate operations on January 21st, after decades of selling fair-trade goods in Canada (and 74 years after its founding in the...