12pm to 2pm Mountain Time
Calgary Municipal Building, 6th Floor Atrium
800 MacLeod Trail SE

Join Thrive and Calgary Economic Development for lunch with Tim Draimin, Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) National, and the Alberta Community & Cooperative Association (ACCA) to explore the history and context of social finance in Alberta.

Social finance is an investment approach that sustains a spectrum of organizational models -- nonprofits, charities, social enterprises and social purpose businesses -- to tackle social and environmental challenges, while generating a financial return for future investment.

At all levels of scale, the social finance system in growing:

• New financial tools are amplifying the capital invested for social, environmental and financial return;
• Globally, the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce continues to explore the invisible heart of markets and is on the precipice of expanding;
• Nationally, the Canadian Taskforce on Social Finance works with members of the social finance community to advance the recommendations outlined in their seminal 2010 report;
• And in Alberta, there is accelerating innovation around community finance models and community investment funds.

During lunch discover the promising initiatives that are shaping the market today and the opportunities on the horizon to mobilize capital to expand local, community and social investment. Be sure to purchase your ticket early as seating is limited.

Register for An Alberta Social Finance Story

We need an “ecosystem of democratic, institutional and commercial funding models matched to different elements of social change”

– Michael Edwards
“Beauty and the Beast’: Can Money Ever Foster Social Transformation?”