The Social Investment Almanack Good Deals 2009 | Page 8
Contents
Contents
WELCOME
005 — The Social Enterprise team welcomes you to the Almanack PEOPLE POWER When individuals join forces financially, they can make a real difference 028 — Sharing the potential for good Cafédirect’s public share issue 032 — Torrs Hydro How a community funded its own hydroelectric plant 034 — Sunderland Home Care Associates Employees have shares in their own company at Sunderland Home Care Associates THE GOOD AND THE GREAT Established institutions and social investment
006 — Illustration: the social investment community 012 — The Almanack team: meet our talented writers, editors and designers
FOREWORD
015 — Angela Smith, minister for the third sector, explains the government’s support for social investment
PRELUDE
Getting your bearings
018 — The social investment timeline 022 — World map: navigating the social investment landscape
036 — Seeing is believing Deutsche Bank Americas has its own foundation combining social impact with financial return 040 — CCLA An investment manager that is placing funds in a microfinance product to help people in poverty across the world 042 — Caja Laboral How one of Spain’s largest business groups was financed by the workers’ own bank 044 — Perspective
Chapter one
A new financial landscape
From Bangladesh to Canary Wharf
What’s going on today with social investment across the world
026 — Introduction
Microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus says it’s time for capitalism to change
Turning away from casino capitalism
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