Vancity Community Investment Bank (VCIB) and Habitat for Humanity Canada recently announced a new $30 million impact-driven partnership designed to support the non-profit organization aggressively scale its delivery of affordable housing across Canada. And it couldn’t...
Subscribe: SpotifySocial entrepreneur Ryan Turnbull decided to focus his attention on policy change when he ran for and won a seat in the Canadian Parliament in 2019. Today his passion for social innovation and for advancing a more equitable economy is on full display...
Homelessness is one of the many simmering systemic issues that the pandemic has brought to a boil. Interrelated challenges of inequality, joblessness and evictions have put 30 million people at risk of losing their homes. Yet there is a silver lining: More...
Trading goods and services without using cash… A powerful idea, isn’t it? While the history of barter stretches back to as far as 8000 years ago, one would hardly guess that even today, according to the US Department of Commerce, barter exchanges account for over 30...
“The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity.” – Nadia Murad, Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner You would be forgiven for thinking that in 2021, the...
