About the event
The Canadian Social Finance Fund is a $755 million investment from the Federal Government which leverages private sector funding to catalyze a revitalization of social purpose organizations across Canada. This talk will speak to underlying challenges faced by the social sector that social financing is intended to solve and where the co-operative movement fits within the Canadian context. Central to this talk will be the historical role of the co-operative movement in Canadian social finance and surfacing longstanding tensions between mutual aid, philanthropy, and commerce as competing principles underpinning social finance.
About our speaker
Sean Geobey is the Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), an Associate Professor in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), and Co-Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) at the University of Waterloo. He currently leads a research team working in partnership with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) to support the Canadian Social Finance Fund’s Investment Readiness Program through a system mapping and principles-focused evaluation of the Canadian social finance sector.
Event Information
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Saskatchewan time or Central Standard Time)
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