Join us Thursday, September 27 at 12:00 noon EDT as we welcome our guest speaker Karim Harji, co-founder and partner at Venture Deli.

 

Venture Deli, in partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, recently published a nation-wide study that provides insight into the issues and opportunities for social finance as perceived by the Canadian financial sector. The report identifies several key themes related to the level of awareness of social finance, as well as the challenges faced by financial institutions, asset managers, financial advisors and investors. 

 

Karim Harji will present these findings and propose strategies to build awareness across the financial sector, providing recommendations to help advance social finance in Canada. 

 

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Karim Harji is a co-founder and partner at Venture Deli, a firm that builds and capitalizes ventures that matter to the world. He is also the lead at Purpose Capital, where he advises investors, foundations and financial institutions globally on how to align their investment strategies with their social impact objectives. Most recently, he was the Senior Manager for Partnerships & Social Impact at Social Capital Partners, where he led initiatives that provided growth financing and advisory services to franchises and large corporations seeking to enhance their social impact. 

 

Karim is a Senior Research Associate at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University, and teaches social entrepreneurship at York University and the University of Toronto (in the business and engineering faculties, respectively). He is a regular blogger at socialfinance.ca, the leading website on social finance and impact investing in Canada, which he co-founded in 2008. 

 

Karim holds a master's degree in public administration from Carleton University, and an undergraduate degree in economics from McMaster University. He is on the board of the Small Change Fund and the Social Investment Organization.