Posted by Geraldine @ MaRS, December 8th, 2009
Paul Martin speaks at Impact Investing
What happens when you put a former Liberal Prime Minister, a former Conservative Party Leader and a leading social impact investor in a room? Fireworks? Pouting and disagreement? Or one of the most electric and optimistic events I’ve been to this year.
On November 6, the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin and Social Capital Partners (SCP), Bill Young came to MaRS for an event called, “Impact Investing: Building Prosperity Outside the Mainstream,” moderated by John Tory and Ilse Treurnicht. The discussion focused on how market forces can be used effectively to solve social challenges in Canada.
Posted by Kevin @ MaRS, December 8th, 2006
Gates Foundation
Major changes are coming to the organization that is fundamentally changing global health, by which I mean the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With the pending massive cash infusion from one Warren Buffet, the Foundation is altering its internal financial structure to cleanly separate its program work from investment of its assets. Additionally, the foundation has also set time limit on the money, requiring that the funds be spent within 50 years of the deaths of both Gates. The foundation expects to steeply increase its grant-making from the current level of $1.75 billion per year to $3.5 billion by 2009. Its giving is focused in the areas of global health, global development, education and technology in public libraries.
Read the full story here.
Learn more about the Gates Foundation here.
