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Vancouver Social Value Fund just published their inaugural annual report. Make sure to check out the amazing things they've been up to on the West Coast!

We are proud to announce the release of our inaugural annual report!

Learn more about what the team accomplished in 2020 and our goals for the upcoming year: https://nsvf.ca/2021/05/vsvf-2020-report/

Congratulations to Kingston Social Value Fund and United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington on this incredible partnership to make impact investments in Kingston's social enterprises!

The Kingston Social Value Fund (KSVF) announced a new partnership with its inaugural funder, United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (UW). Student-led KSVF is Kingston’s first and only impact investment fund that will now make investments in local social enterprises using its impact-first funding approach. To learn more about the partnership, visit:

https://nsvf.ca/2021/04/ksvf-unitedway-announcement/

Congratulations to Vancouver Social Value Fund on its sixth investment in a Victoria based vegan seafood company Save Da Sea Foods.

The team was very impressed with the company's sales growth, future plans for both product and geographic expansion. VSVF team also wanted to support the following impact: company's contribution to a solution for the overexploitation of salmon stocks, its female founder and her leadership style, and supporting a plant based company.

Head over to our blog to read more about the details of this investment and impact analysis.

https://nsvf.ca/2021/04/behind-the-deal-save-da-sea-foods/

After 3.5 years, NSVF alumni and associate network includes 75 people across the globe. Last fall, we invited 5 of our alumni, co-founders of their respective Social Value Funds to share thoughts on their Social Value Fund journey with our current associates and fund managers. This is the first post in the 5-part Alumni Spotlight Series, featuring Chloe Fu, VSVF Alumna, 2017-2018.
https://nsvf.ca/2021/02/alumna-spotlight-chloe-fu/

Read our latest blog from the Calgary Social Value Fund as its members reflect on what they learned about Calgary community, what moments stand out for the team and what goals they have next.

Thank you Tori Hislop, Emily Chen, James Dick, and Tyson Bilton for sharing your thoughts.

https://nsvf.ca/2020/12/2020-review-calgary-social-value-fund/

We are so excited to celebrate two members of our community being recognized as Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders by magazine.

Many congratulations to our Executive Director Steve Petterson! Your passion and vision inspires our growing community of social value funds and student impact investment teams across 🇨🇦.

We also congratulate the co-founder of Montreal Social Value Fund Maxime Lakat, who was honored for his service as Chair of Canadian Business Youth Council for Sustainable Development.

Head over to Corporate Knights website to meet and get inspired by the rest of 2020 Class of 30 UNDER 30 SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS

We're excited to celebrate that our Executive Director Steve Petterson was named one of 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders by Corporate Knights magazine.

Many congratulations to Steve for this well-deserved honour!

2020's class of Top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders shape #nextnormal | Corporate Knights Even in the midst of the pandemic, young people are leading the push to better the world

We are so happy to support impact leaders on their first steps into impact investing across Canada. At NSVF, we measure our success with the experiences had by our program participants. This year, we said goodbye to 18 graduating fund managers across our five locations. Here is what some of them had to say about the program.

There are still four more days left to get Fund Associate applications in for our teams in Kingston, London, and Vancouver. Apply today to join amazing young innovators like Bhoomika, Tanya, and Manan who are pushing Canada's impact investment ecosystem forward through local investment.

Kingston: https://nsvf.ca/locations/kingston/
London: https://nsvf.ca/locations/london/
Vancouver: https://nsvf.ca/locations/vancouver/

Our Social Value Fund teams focus on meaningful solutions for challenges facing their local communities.

Each fund defines its investment thesis based on an identified funding gap to support social value organizations that are often left behind by traditional investment models.

Our student teams are fully empowered to make these decisions autonomously, while leveraging a national network of advisors, funders, and other social value funds.

Our team at National Social Value Fund supports the work of local funds through knowledge exchange, training, facilitating connections across different networks, and operational support, thus creating a unique local in scope, national in scale funding model for Canada's social enterprises.

Applications are open!

Today, we are excited to announce that applications for Fund Associate positions in our Kingston Social Value Fund, London Social Value Fund, and Vancouver Social Value Fund have officially been opened!

Becoming a member of a Social Value Fund means joining a committed team of diverse peers seeking to make their community better through impact investment. As a Fund Associate, you will be involved in all aspects of running a place-based social investment fund. You will get to meet and engage with inspiring social entrepreneurs, learn from experienced impact investors, complete research and due diligence on local social enterprises, and make impact-first investment decisions into social enterprises in your community.

The Social Value Fund program is a two-year endeavour, where successful Fund Associates will have the opportunity to run their respective local fund in the second year of the program as a Fund Manager.

Apply to join the next generation of impact investing leaders in Canada.

Kingston: https://nsvf.ca/locations/kingston/
London: https://nsvf.ca/locations/london/
Vancouver: https://nsvf.ca/locations/vancouver/

The Social Value Fund program is a two year experiential learning program for undergraduate students to understand and apply all aspects of running an impact investment fund: contributing to deal flow, research, fundraising, due diligence, and investment decision making.

Applications for Kingston Social Value Fund, London Social Value Fund, and Vancouver Social Value Fund open on September 1. Follow us on social media to learn about the application process.