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

Bruno Lam (), Steve Petterson (), James Tansey (), Mariana Martinez Rubio () and Maxime Lakat ()
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Bruno Lam: University of British Columbia
Steve Petterson: National Social Value Fund
James Tansey: University of British Columbia
Mariana Martinez Rubio: University of British Columbia
Maxime Lakat: Montreal Social Value Fund

A chapter in Innovations in Social Finance, 2021, pp 97-119 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Social value investing; Impact investment; Community development; Youth; Social finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72535-8_5

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