Publications
At Terrapin Social Finance we apply a Public Health lens to our work.
We believe that social determinants of health offer a practical framework for measuring and reporting social outcomes.
We believe that social finance is most useful when aimed at populations that are hardest to help.
Below are some of the reports we’ve written. These demonstrate what we consider to be important in program development and in measuring and reporting social and economic impact.
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Successful Indigenous Business: What it Takes - 2024
A case study of Alberta's Springbank Offstream Reservoir (SR1) Infrastructure Project.
Dignity - 2022
Looks at the role of personal and economic dignity in the success of Social Finance initiatives targeting First Nations entrepreneurs in Alberta, Canada.
The Bond & Beyond - 2018
Key findings from an environmental scan of community bonds across Canada, July 2018.
IBC 2019 Report on Indigenous Business Women
Studies the impact of social finance on social determinants of health for Indigenous Business Women in Western Canada.
PHAC 2018 Evidence Review - Action on Social Determinants of Health Through Social Finance
Explores the relationship between social finance and social determinants of health to better understand the influence each has on the other to address health and socioeconomic outcomes.
IBC 2018 Report on Social and Economic Outcomes
Builds on the 2015 report with year over year comparative data.
IBC 2015 Report on Social and Economic Outcomes
Links social finance and social determinants of health in a First Nation social finance context.
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