This is not a return to the private finance initiative of old but rather a new
social finance initiative.
Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's
Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.
MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's
Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.
Not exact matches
About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of
social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and
initiatives dedicated to tackling
social and environmental problems in Canada.
About the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing works to increase the awareness and the effectiveness of
social finance with the aim of driving new capital, talent, and
initiatives dedicated to tackling
social and environmental problems.
Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of
social finance, which directs new capital, talent and
initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing
social and environmental problems.
As anywhere else in the world, Church
initiatives in public education,
social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate such matters as licensing, training standards, and
financing.
Since 1996, private
finance initiatives have generated more than # 50 billion of private investment in
social and economic infrastructure across the UK.
The key feature of this project was that it was funded through a new form of private
finance initiative called a «
Social Impact Bond» (SIB).
Ms Cartmail said: «It is clear that the not - so - subtle encouragement given by the government for the various privatisation
initiatives, such as the private
finance initiatives (PFIs) and the misguided experiment with
social enterprises, are the Trojan Horse that could lead to the fragmentation of the NHS.
In a keynote address, titled, «Job Creation and
Social Protection
Initiatives in States,» the Country Manager of International
Finance Corporation, Mrs. Eme Lore, said the Nigerian private sector must lead efforts on job creation in order to achieve success.
Trish Nixon is a
Social Finance Fellow at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, helping to support the Centre's various
initiatives.