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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/

Applications to join the London Social Value Fund Associate Program are open until Sunday, March 14, at 11:59pm PT! Register for office hours if you have any questions: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/office-hours-hsbc-social-innova Apply here: https://nsvf.ca/associates2021/

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/20//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 @corporateknights 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 #30under30 #youthleaders #socialvaluefund

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!