Published May 27, 2019 | By Jory Cohen, Director of Social Finance and Investment | This post focuses on the next step in the series describing the steps my wife, Jill, and I are taking to reach a 100% impact portfolio: our investment in RE Royalties, a publicly-traded company in its early stages of operations. … Continued
Published April 25, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation | “I made a film I didn’t want to make,” Tasha Hubbard says of her latest work, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up. Premiering as the opening film at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival, the documentary follows Colten Boushie’s family’s quest for justice following his murder in … Continued
Published April 23, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation | For decades, McGill University’s sports team name has been an antiquated and derogatory term referring to Indigenous peoples. On April 12, 2019, the university announced that it would no longer be using that name; a new one is expected to be announced by the beginning of the 2020 … Continued
Published April 8, 2019 | By Jory Cohen, Director of Social Finance and Investment | A little while ago my wife Jill and I committed to a 100% impact portfolio; our goal is to transition our investment portfolio to one entirely composed of impact investments. This is the sixth post outlining one of the steps in … Continued
Our granting programs over the years has connected Inspirit with a diverse range of change leaders from across Canada. From civic engagement to storytelling, these organizers, educators, artists, environmentalists and activists bold push against the boundaries of inclusion. Diasporic storyteller, photographer and Afrofuturist artist Riya Jama is one such change leader. Using original photography and … Continued
The following blog post was written by Sidrah Ahmad, a researcher behind The Rivers of Hope Toolkit. This project was a 2018 ChangeUp grantee. You can also find it here on TVO’s Shared Values blog. When I was at my best friend’s place last week for dinner, she told me about a frightening incident that had … Continued
This post was originally published by The Philanthropist. Six men killed, six women widowed, 17 children left fatherless, and one survivor paralyzed. Two years on, many Muslims are still reeling from the shock of the attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City. As communities across the country gather on January 29 to remember … Continued
Muslim Awareness Week began on January 25 to commemorate the second anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting on January 29, 2017. It has been two years since a lone gunman walked into the mosque and killed six Muslims. For many Muslims, the mosque is sanctified space; it is where students can quickly pop in to … Continued
by Jory Cohen, Director of Social Finance and Investment After writing about two public equity impact investments in the previous post (iShares MSCI Global Impact ETF and ETHO Climate Leadership US ETF) that intentionally invest in many companies across various sectors, this post focuses on a single investment in one individual public company only: Great … Continued
Guest post by: Sharrae Lyon Chain, chain, chains of pain, The memories deep. Silence skills the roots of love. As a filmmaker, writer and storyteller of Xamaycan descent, my work explores how those who have been deemed inferior by Eurocentric standards—due to their skin colour, divergent worldviews, disabilities and mental health issues—claim their power as … Continued
