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Innovation, Austerity’s Grandchild |
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SiG Senior Advisor and former McConnell Foundation President Tim Brodhead was recently published in the quarterly journal, The Philanthropist. The article, Innovation, Austerity’s Grandchild, addresses how social finance is creating space for innovation, resulting in a new narrative that underscores the critical contribution of the community sector to tackling complex challenges facing Canadian society.
Read the full article here. |
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CCPA Analysis of the 2013 federal budget |
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from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
CCPA staff, research associates, and Alternative Federal Budget partners have posted their budget analysis on their blog.
For more budget analysis, please visit the CCPA website |
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It's More than Poverty |
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Employment Precarity and Household Well-being
 United Way Toronto’s newest report, It’s More than Poverty: Employment Precarity and Household Well-being examines dramatic changes in precarious employment over the last few decades, revealing that only sixty percent of all workers in our region have stable, secure jobs. In addition to looking at the impact of precarious employment on individuals, the report also looked at its harmful effect on families and communities.
Read the report: It’s More than Poverty (PDF — 5.85 MB)
Read the executive summary: It’s More than Poverty (PDF — 1.33 MB)
Visit United Way Toronto for more reports. |
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CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2013 |
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On March 12th, the CCPA released the Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Doing Better Together. This year's AFB shows how growth-killing austerity can be replaced by a plan that strengthens the economy, leads to a better quality of life for all Canadians, and eliminates the deficit by 2016.
This year's Alternative Federal Budget:
 reduces poverty and inequality by investing in child care, pharmacare, affordable housing, income supports, and post-secondary education,
- tackles the ongoing crisis for First Nations housing, drinking water, education,
- implements a long term, transparent and public plan for investments in infrastructure,
- creates 300,000 jobs, lowering the unemployment rate to 6% by 2014, and
- introduces a new top personal income tax bracket, closes the biggest tax loopholes, and introduces a withholding tax on tax havens.
The full budget document, a budget-in-brief, and infographics are available in both English and French at www.policyalternatives.ca/afb2013.
Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan recently appeared on CBC Toronto's Metro Morning to discuss the Alternative Federal Budget. You can listen to the discussion, here. |
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“Blended Financing for Impact: The Opportunity for Social Finance in Supportive Housing” |
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Join us March 21, 2013 at 12:00 noon EDT for the release of the report “Blended Financing for Impact: The Opportunity for Social Finance in Supportive Housing”
Driven by the work of the Turning the Key report commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), a number of supportive housing providers in Canada struck a Social Finance Working Group in 2012 to explore social finance opportunities in the supportive housing sector. The objective of the project was to provide a clear pathway for supportive housing providers to learn about and engage in alternative methods of financing for improving and developing new dedicated housing units in Canada.
“Blended Financing for Impact: The Opportunity for Social Finance in Supportive Housing” identifies and outlines a number of social finance models, identifies principles for an effective social finance strategy for the supportive housing sector, highlights challenges to further adoption of impact investing, and offers recommended actions to increase the supply of supportive housing through the use of social finance strategies.
Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5742917220# |
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