Janie is a CPA with great skills, a desire to help her community and very little time. Over the years she has volunteered at her kid’s school, helped coach soccer and spent many hours sorting food at her local food bank. Now she wants to use her considerable financial...
Founded over 20 years ago by twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger, the WE organization (originally Free the Children) has blossomed into a mega-organization educating and inspiring youth globally. The programs have broadened over the years, from focusing solely on...
Assume for a moment you are a funder or a philanthropist. You have money and you want it to be used to help people, build community or address a social, cultural or environmental challenge. Of course, you want to make a significant difference, but naturally, the...
With little fanfare the Federal government has taken a major step forward this week in supporting the social enterprise sector – providing clarity on a definition and supporting the development of a national directory. The directory defines social enterprise as, “An...
As social entrepreneurs, we are lucky. We live each day knowing that we are making a difference in the lives of others. It is a blessing, but it isn’t always easy. Now we have a new generation of millennial social entrepreneurs starting out – inspired by hundreds of...
Poverty, especially children living in poverty, has overarching ramifications for the global economy. According to Global Issues, 1 billion children live in poverty (out of 2.2 billion children), and more than 121 million children do not receive an education. Growing...
