12pm to 1pm Pacific Time
Pique Venture Management Inc.
Suite 105 - 211 East Georgia Street

What's hot and happening in the impact investing space

If you are an investor or thinking about getting started in impact investing, join me for a market update on intriguing entrepreneurs and local early-stage ventures. We’ll highlight some of the people and companies we’re seeing, across a number of sectors, including women led and co-led ventures, ventures in the creative economy, and social technologies (people-focused, technology-enabled ventures).

This Lunch & Learn is brought to you by Pique Ventures, an impact investment company and a developer and manager of impact venture capital. We launched the impact venture fund, Pique Venture Investments (VCC) Inc., which invests in leadership diversity, the creative economy, and social technologies.

Register for Impact Investing Summer Lunch & Learn

Pique Ventures helps impact investors make more effective,  efficient and integrated investment decisions. We manage Pique Venture Investments (VCC), an impact investment fund where you can make a difference with your investment dollars, in the company of other like-minded people. We also provide products and services such as venture evaluation, due diligence, and fund initiation and development services to impact investors.

4:00pm to 6:00pm Pacific Time

Explore the impact organizations and social enterprises that make the DTES the beating heart of social change in Vancouver, with CCEDNet member Groundswell - Grassroots Economic Alternatives Society & local community economic development strategist Wes Regan.

The stops on this tour are not your typical storefront enterprises: these highly visible but mysterious operations are employing innovative uses of space for unexpected social purpose, programming, impact, and placemaking that is much deeper than appears at a glance.

Occupying a mix of private and public space, whether it’s local food serving local housing food programs, creating low barrier jobs, or providing a service to local businesses diverting waste from our regional landfills, the projects have deep, intensive uses, yet we often pass by without realizing the full scope of what is going on.  Come and explore!

Get your tickets for this DTES Social Impact Walking Tour

This tour is part of a series of walking tours (others on July 14 and July 21) exploring this unique social and economic ecosystem and sharing what Groundswell has learned from neighbours, partners, and alumni that make this neighbourhood a hub for innovative social action.  Come and get to know the people and places that help make up the beating heart of Vancouver’s social economy.

Learn more about the tour guide, where the tour will visit, and more!

4:00pm to 6:00pm Pacific Time

Explore the impact organizations and social enterprises that make the DTES the beating heart of social change in Vancouver, with CCEDNet member Groundswell - Grassroots Economic Alternatives Society & local community economic development strategist Wes Regan.

The cluster of social enterprises on this tour shows how an intense local impact can actually grow to be part of a broader ecosystem in other communities that want to see their economies guided by the same values. These projects have scaled to have a scope of influence with impact far beyond the DTES: sharing their knowledge, best practices, their own conscientious practices, and more, and gaining an international profile due to their success.

Get your tickets for this DTES Social Impact Walking Tour

This tour is part of a series of walking tours (others on July 14 and July 28) exploring this unique social and economic ecosystem and sharing what Groundswell has learned from neighbours, partners, and alumni that make this neighbourhood a hub for innovative social action.  Come and get to know the people and places that help make up the beating heart of Vancouver’s social economy.

Learn more about the tour guide, where the tour will visit, and more!

4:00pm to 6:00pm Pacific Time

Explore the impact organizations and social enterprises that make the DTES the beating heart of social change in Vancouver, with CCEDNet member Groundswell - Grassroots Economic Alternatives Society & local community economic development strategist Wes Regan.

Groundswell is cultivating entrepreneurial skills in people who care about people and the planet more than profit. What does this look like?  Meet a few of the people and projects they have launched out of Groundswell’s community and landed in the local community, and see first hand the transformative impact they’ve had in their own lives and in the community around them.

Get your tickets for this DTES Social Impact Walking Tour

This tour is part of a series of walking tours (others on July 21 and July 28) exploring this unique social and economic ecosystem and sharing what Groundswell has learned from neighbours, partners, and alumni that make this neighbourhood a hub for innovative social action.  Come and get to know the people and places that help make up the beating heart of Vancouver’s social economy.

Learn more about the tour guide, where the tour will visit, and more!

12pm to 1pm Pacific Time
Pique Venture Management Inc.
Suite 105 - 211 East Georgia Street

What's hot and happening in the impact investing space

If you are an investor or thinking about getting started in impact investing, join me for a market update on intriguing entrepreneurs and local early-stage ventures. We’ll highlight some of the people and companies we’re seeing, across a number of sectors, including women led and co-led ventures, ventures in the creative economy, and social technologies (people-focused, technology-enabled ventures).

This Lunch & Learn is brought to you by Pique Ventures, an impact investment company and a developer and manager of impact venture capital. We launched the impact venture fund, Pique Venture Investments (VCC) Inc., which invests in leadership diversity, the creative economy, and social technologies.

Register for Impact Investing Summer Lunch & Learn

Pique Ventures helps impact investors make more effective,  efficient and integrated investment decisions. We manage Pique Venture Investments (VCC), an impact investment fund where you can make a difference with your investment dollars, in the company of other like-minded people. We also provide products and services such as venture evaluation, due diligence, and fund initiation and development services to impact investors.