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Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Barriers Facing Black Entrepreneurs in Canada
Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Barriers Facing Black Entrepreneurs in Canada

This report highlights the systemic barriers facing Black Canadian entrepreneurs regarding growth and success, including systemic racism, limited access to capital, and insufficient business networks.

Gender Impact Investing & the Rise of False Solutions: An Analysis for Feminist Movements
Gender Impact Investing & the Rise of False Solutions: An Analysis for Feminist Movements

This report highlights Gender Impact Investing (GII), its definition, sources of funds, and targets, as well as the shortcomings, challenges, and risks of GII.

Overlooked: Canada’s Fastest-Emerging, Highest-Educated Workforce
Overlooked: Canada’s Fastest-Emerging, Highest-Educated Workforce

A research report for employers on unlocking the potential of the growing labour force of South Asian Women in Canada.

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Overlooked: Canada’s Fastest-Emerging, Highest-Educated Workforce

A research report for employers on unlocking the potential of the growing labour force of South Asian Women in Canada.

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Strategies to Ingrain Diversity and Inclusion in your Workplace

There is widespread agreement on the need to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace. But it is not easy to deliver on the promises made. This article argues that it is time to adopt a more systematic, coherent approach to D&I.

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Improving Racial and Gender Equity in Corporate Leadership

The report recommends a three-step plan to help organizations accelerate their journey toward greater equity.

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Diverse Representation and Board Leadership Gaps

Many companies' efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace still need a push to deliver on the promises made. The study explores the labor market effects of gender and race by examining board leadership appointments.

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Key Things to Help Investors Take Steps towards Racial Equity

In 2019, just 1% of venture backed founders were Black, despite the high level of innovation coming from the Black community. If we want to build a system with an equitable flow of capital, we have a long way to go to expand perceptions and get more people to see themselves as investors, and expand who has access to investment accounts and services.

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Women of Color Still Face More Significant Barriers at Work

The report highlighting different workplace experiences and identifies the structural barriers and disadvantages faced by employees outside dominant groups across all work areas.

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Families of Color Hold More Consumer Debt Compared to White Families

This report establishes the context for the existing inequities in the financial system in Canadian communities.

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Investing in Black Founders, and How Far We Need to Go

According to BLCK VC, black representation in the VC ranks increased slightly in the past year, from an estimated 3 percent of investors to 4 percent in 2021.

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