Interested in Learning about Innovative Strategies to Tackle Poverty?

Introducing Acumen Fund: a social investment fund

Join us for the launch of the Calgary Chapter of Acumen Fund; a social investment fund that fights poverty by investing in businesses that provide critical goods and services to the poor. Examples include: housing projects, healthcare services, agricultural equipment and energy services. The CALGARY+acumen chapter seeks to create awareness, raise funds, and be a community resource around the use of social finance and social enterprise.

Come to learn more about social investment, Acumen Fund, and how you can get involved. Due to limited seating, please register here to save your seat. 

Melrose Cafe and Bar
730 17 Avenue Southwest 
Calgary, Alberta T2S 0B7

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (MT)

For questions or more information about the Calgary Chapter, please contact Mike Bowerman at mjbowerman@gmail.com.

More About Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund is a social investment fund that uses philanthropic capital to make disciplined investments – loans or equity, not grants – that yield both financial and social returns in businesses in developing countries. The entrepreneurs Acumen Fund supports are focused on offering critical services – water, health, agriculture, housing, and energy – at affordable prices to people earning less than four dollars a day. For more information visit Acumen Fund online at www.acumenfund.org

Vital Signs Calgary - Opens May 1st

The Calgary Foundation believes that vital cities are resilient cities. But how do we know if we are making progress? Tracking the current and long-term vitality of our city is the purpose of Calgary’s Vital Signs -

The Calgary Foundation’s annual checkup that reports on the facts and citizen perceptions around quality of life in 14 key issue areas.

Visit the Calgary Foundation website on May 1st to participate in the survey!

Youth Vital Signs - Participate Now

Youth Vital Signs is a youth-driven project that gives voice to the experience and knowledge of Calgarians ages 12-20. Through a survey, youth get a chance to assess their quality of life in Calgary by assigning grades on key issue areas that affect them. With your help we can identify opportunities for positive change in these ten key issue areas. Your ideas and grades will then be used to increase the influence of youth on public policy and community investments, and help decision makers improve the lives of young people in Calgary.

The survey will take 10 - 15 minutes to complete. All information is kept confidential. Results of this survey will be published in the Youth Vital Signs Report Card in June 2012.

Participate by clicking here 

Calgary 2012

Cultural Ambassador Program

Are you connected? Do you know what's happening? We need you! Become an active part of the Calgary 2012 team as an arts and culture communicator, connector, instigator and facilitator.  

Throughout your one-year term (March 2012 - March 2013) you will be offered the unique opportunity to join a movement to champion Calgary’s creative voice internationally and solidify our significant voice in the Canadian cultural landscape

Sign Up Here

Vital Conversations: Household Energy Costs

Join Vital Conversations on April 20^th to discuss how your decisions impact your household energy costs and how you can shrink your energy footprint.  Visit www.heatsave.ca  to receive a confidential report on how your residential water, gas and electricity consumption compares to your neighbours. Use Group ID identifier of VC.  

Doors open at 5:30 pm. A light supper will be served prior to program start at 6:00 pm. 

To receive your report in advance of April 20^th event, complete the questionnaire by April 10^th.  Or…bring your water, gas and electricity bills for January 2011 and January 2012 to the Vital Conversations event to have your annual energy consumption explained by the H.E.A.T. team.

To RSVP, please click here