Meaning More with Your Money
Impact investing means considering more than your return on investment; it means looking at the values in that investment. Does it improve local communities? Provide affordable housing? Reduce energy production from unsustainable resources? Create healthy soils and healthy people? Access capital for equity-deserving groups with decisions made by peers?
Resources
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SVX Canada is a financial services firm that designs strategies, manages products, and mobilizes capital for impact ventures, funds, organizations, and investors.
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Black Women Professional Worker Co-op (BWPW) is a co-op that utilizes African and Indigenous principles to promote community-building and decent work.
Expert Conversations
Hear from impact leaders Paula Sahyoun, Associate at SVX Canada, Juliet 'Kego Ume-Onyido, co-founder of BWPW, as they share their experiences, expertise, tools, and resources to mean more with your money.
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Paula Sahyoun has worked on some of Canada’s seminal social finance initiatives and is currently an Associate at the impact investing firm SVX where she leads on advisory projects and investor and venture education programming. Paula has spent the last few years deeply engaged within Canada’s social innovation ecosystem. She has previously worked within the Government of Ontario’s Social Enterprise Unit as a Policy Advisor, and as a Social Innovation Fellow at the McConnell Family Foundation where she worked within their Re-Code (post-secondary social infrastructure), youth and climate, and public interest journalism teams. Paula sits on the Board of Plan International Canada and is recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Climate Reality Leader and United Nations SDSN Local Pathways Fellow.
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Juliet is the co-founder of Whole WoMan Network and i.S.E.R.V.E.2050 social enterprises; Nwanyibuife and Black Women Professional Worker Cooperatives, for women/youths; with a mission to raise up a new generation of Transformational, Ethical & Creative African Leaders. She also founded POETRY4Change & SEED4Her/SEED4Him Leadership Initiatives for African Youths. Juliet is a passionate social justice advocate for Gender Equity, Quality Public School Education, Financial Literacy & Empowerment programs, especially in the delivery of certification trainings, seminars and workshops on Self-leadership, Transformational Leadership, Community Development & Wealth creation.