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The Jubilee Fund Inc. is an ethical investment fund established to raise awareness concerning the interrelated issues of poverty reduction, financial assets and access to credit. The Jubilee Fund provides short term loans to not-for-profit organizations and businesses, (cooperatives and social enterprises) to initiate or complete community based projects that reduce poverty and financial exclusion. The Jubilee Fund projects typically contribute to community needs and priorities, low income housing and/or small business or worker co-op business opportunities.IdentityThe Jubilee Fund was launched in 2000 as a Winnipeg-based expression of the millennium celebration for debt relief. The Jubilee Fund was inspired by the Hebrew Scriptures that call for the periodic redistribution of wealth and debt cancellation.The Jubilee Fund began in the spirit to restore equity within society and we intend to carry this spirit forward in a caring, yet business-based manner.

Partnerships, Results, ImpactCreating business solutions to povertyMEDA is an international economic development organization whose mission is to create business solutions to poverty. Founded in 1953 by a group of Mennonite business professionals, we partner with the poor to start or grow small and medium-sized businesses in developing regions around the world.Our expertise includes a full range of economic development tools: financial services, improved technology, business training, better access to markets and equity investment. Our work most often focuses on women, youth and the rural poor.We believe that all people deserve the opportunity to earn a livelihood and that unleashing entrepreneurship is a powerful way to alleviate poverty.Our promise ...Informed by our faith-based values, we creatively combine enlightened business practices and entrepreneurial thinking to provide roads out of poverty.Our work is not done until it is proven to be sustainable, replicable, scalable and measurable.The scope and effectiveness of our programs will surprise you.We show respect for all and seek to create dignity for everyone touched by our work, at home and around the world

Annual General MeetingYou are cordially invited to attend the Entreprises Riel Annual General Meeting to be held: Wednesday September 17, at noon in The Great Room, at the Maison du Bourgeois Hebert and St. Joseph Streets Only members are allowed to vote ... Read moreProvincial Investment Supports Vibrant Francophone Tourism Business CommunityJune 26, 2014 CHARLOTTETOWN- New investments by the Manitoba government will increase francophone tourism and help build and expand francophone businesses, creating jobs and contributing to the province's diverse economy, Premier Greg Selinger announced here today where he is representing the ... Read more Entreprises Riel is an economic development and destination marketing and tourism product development agency which promotes the added value of the French language in business and tourism in the Riel district of the City of Winnipeg ( St. Boniface , St. Norbert and St. Vital ) in Manitob,a Canada. Corporate leaders from all three communities make up Riel's Board of Directors

Community Futures Kitayan has begun the process of creating community based websites for all their communities. These websites will create advantages for its members by opening communication gateways and allowing more public presence. These websites will be community shaped and allow its members to connect with other areas of the country.The Community Futures programs are community-based, volunteer driven, economic development organizations, and are independent in their operations. KITAYAN CFDC is a Community Futures program and will accordingly implement its program of services under the guidance of nine Board of Directors, one from each of the following member communities, which make up the service area:Garden Hill First Nation,Manto Sipi Cree Nation,Gods Lake Narrows Community.