Good Money

Eugene Ellmen talks about a new report from the Canada Forum for Impact Investing and Development (CAFIID), which looked at how much Canadian impact investment is directed abroad for international development. Read the report here. 

As the impact investing division of World Vision Canada, Origin Capital is focused on fighting inequality for the world's most vulnerable. This starts with one of the most basic necessities of life: food. In this episode, Origin Capital's managing director, David O'Leary, hosts a chat between Jeff Baikowitz and Melani O'Leary on the many ways Motherfood International and World Vision Canada are working together to break the cycle of malnutrition.

We caught up with Morgan Simon, polymath impact investor and author of Real Impact, at the MaRS Social Finance Forum.

Listening on Anchor? Reply to this episode in a voice note! We're gathering your burning questions about impact investing and social finance, and would love to feature you on a future episode. 

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an episode of Development Unplugged, a podcast by our friends at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation. Emily Measures of Nutrition International and Origin Capital's managing director, David O'Leary, discuss applications of performance-based financing with CCIC president and CEO Nicolas Moyer.

Andrew Almack of Plastics For Change is on a mission. As the founder of a company that produces the world's first fair-trade-certified recycled plastic, he's helping create stable jobs for India's "silent environmentalists," the waste pickers who clean up city streets. With optimism, compassion and gratitude, he lays out startling statistics for why we should all care a little more about the plastic we use every day.

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In the Philippines, many homes along the coastline are built on bamboo stilts to protect them from incoming tides. But the stilts are there for another reason, too: homes without them not only flood, but become filled with the garbage that floats in on the waves. 

Anne-Marie Vettorel chats with Mathu Jeyaloganathan about some innovative solutions that could reverse the waste problem in the Filipino city of Iloilo.

In this inaugural episode of Good Money, we discuss a new paradigm of investing and a global shift in the way philanthropy is done. 

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