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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Role of Youth in Scaling Social Value Investing: The Case of Canada’s National Social Value Fund

Authors : Bruno Lam, Steve Petterson, James Tansey, Mariana Martinez Rubio, Maxime Lakat

Published in: Innovations in Social Finance

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Social Value Investing is emerging as a viable subset of the growing impact investing sector. This paper begins by situating Social Value Investing in the history and context of other investment approaches, namely venture capital and philanthropy. We then define social value investment as having the following key components: organizational agnosticism, impact-adjusted returns, stewardship, and a systemic community approach. Our paper posits that youth have a significant effect on community development and that positioning youth to be both involved and in a leadership position (for social value investment projects in their communities) may lead to strong social, environmental, and financial results. We provide examples of youth-led community initiatives and focus our argument on a case study of the National Social Value Fund, an initiative growing in Canada’s communities since 2017.

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Metadata
Title
The Role of Youth in Scaling Social Value Investing: The Case of Canada’s National Social Value Fund
Authors
Bruno Lam
Steve Petterson
James Tansey
Mariana Martinez Rubio
Maxime Lakat
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Innovations in Social Finance

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-72534-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-72535-8

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72535-8_5

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