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Monday, March 10, 2014
Heartland Capital Strategies recently featured the Canadian Impact Infrastructure Exchange (CIIX) in their E-Journal. The Canadian Impact Infrastructure Exchange (CIIX), commissioned by 3ci and Impact Infrastructure, LLC, is an information exchange that brings together investors (including Canada's largest pension plans) and infrastructure... More
Monday, January 20, 2014
VP Kim Matheson thanks 3i Director Tessa Hebb for successful launch of 1125@Carleton - innovation and collaboration work space – now ready for full time Executive Director – with Tessa Hebb returning to her role as Director of Carleton Centre for Community Innovation The Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) at Carleton... More
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Government of Québec has announced that RII partner Marguerite Mendell - economist, professor and interim principal of Concordia University’s School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA) - will receive the Prix du Québec for her three decades of scholarship and social engagement in the field of social economy. The Prix du Québec is... More
Thursday, October 10, 2013
The sixth annual PRI Academic Network Conference will be held in Paris, Nov. 13-15 2013. It will begin with the PhD seminar and proceed to the full conference on the final two days. Six RII research papers on a range of RI issues will be presented in addition to a workshop on Impact Investing.... More
Monday, October 7, 2013
October 9, 2013 12 noon to 1pm EDT Two important new areas of research will be presented: 1. 12 pm to 12:30 pm EDT: Professor Margie Mendell and Erica Barbosa E. will present their work on: "Impact Investing: a preliminary analysis of emergent primary and secondary exchange platforms" recently published in the Journal of... More
Monday, August 26, 2013
Canada Measures is an accessible, sophisticated impact measurement system available to grassroots organizations. By participating, you get: An affordable social impact measurement system Social Return on Investment and Impact Reports at 10% of the traditional cost Proprietary software developed with funding from the National Research Council of... More
Thursday, August 8, 2013
socialfinance.ca has featured Tessa Hebb's course offering through Carleton's School of Public Policy and Administration in a new blog post, Instructing for Impact: Carleton University. The post details the development of the two courses, Responsible and Impact Investing (PANL 5302) for the Master in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (MPNL),... More
Thursday, June 27, 2013
CURA RII researchers Priya Bala Miller (UBC/SHARE) and Heather Hachigian (Oxford) have released a report with CURA RII partner CURI titled Endowment Evolution: Benchmarking Responsible Investment at Canadian University Endowment Funds. The report provides baseline data for credible comparison of universities' efforts to align their investment... More
Monday, June 3, 2013
This symposium, sponsored by Canada’s Responsible Investing Initiative – Community University Research Alliance, brings together finance industry practitioners, academics, and other stakeholders to critically investigate the temporal dimensions of responsible investing — the future, the past, timing and the pace of time — in order to... More
Save the Date for the upcoming UBC/ CBERN Symposium titled, “It's Time: Temporal Dimensions of Responsible Investing” in Vancouver, British Colombia June 20th, 2013. Click here for more... More
Monday, May 27, 2013
May 28th , 12 noon to 1pm EDT Two important new areas of research were presented: 1. The Impact of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment on ESG Practice 12 pm to 12:30 pm EDT 2. Responsible investment in the Canadian Territorial North 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm EDT St. Andrews UK Dr. Andreas... More
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Conflict between Aboriginal communities and resource companies can and does happen. And there is no shortage of high profile examples, whether it’s Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, Barrick’s Pascua-Lama mine in Chile or lawsuits brought against Hudbay for alleged human rights violations in Guatemala. But there is another side to this... More
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