Renewal2 Investment Fund

B Lab recently featured Renewal2’s work in their B Corp blog. The post highlighted Renewal2’s innovative approach to investment for environmental and social good and how each person should examine how they invest their money as a means for increasing their impact.

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We are very happy to announce our latest Renewal2 investment in a locally based company: Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD). 

RSF Social Finance is proud to announce the official launch of our Food & Agriculture Program-Related Investing (PRI) Fund. RSF’s PRI Fund aims to increase the flow of funding to social enterprises in local and sustainable food and agriculture by unlocking a new source of patient capital for this important sector.

We are thrilled to announce that on May 31 Renewal2 had its final close with over $35 million in committed capital.

Investors from Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including 16 foundations, came together to support early stage organic food and green consumer and building products companies.

Check out the Portfolio tab to see our investments and watch that space as we put more capital to work over the coming months.

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We are thrilled to announce that the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, one of Canada's largest private foundations, has joined us as an investor.  We are excited to see more mission based investing happening in Canada.

Renewal2 and one of its portfolio companies Alter Eco Americas were featured in the April 21st article "Investing for Change: A new capitalism, coloured green." Written by renowned business journalist, David Ebner, the article features Renewal Partners high impact investment work and the extension of this work with the launch of the Renewal2 investment fund, a fund that focuses on the green building, green consumer products and organic and natural foods

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Vancouver has become the first major Canadian city to be certified for Fair Trade Town status.  That means it buys products such as coffee, tea, sugar and even soccer balls that have been made ethically and for which producers -- largely low-income farmers and labourers -- have been paid fairly.  We're thrilled but not surprised since our mayor, Gregor Robertson, has his roots in local organic farming and sustainable business.  Keep up the good work!