McMaster MPP in Digital Society: Social Capital Partners

For over twenty years, Social Capital Partners has invested in projects and people with the goal of using our capital to create more economic opportunity. We have chosen to take risks, try things that others are not doing, and co-design solutions with our partners that can be scaled. We invest where we are uniquely placed to have a big impact and over the years have had some big successes – and some failures! – supporting social finance, social enterprise, community infrastructure and demandled social hiring. For the past five years SCP has focused on the ownership agenda. We have worked with our network to change the policy landscape to make it easier for more workers to have an ownership stake in the business they work for – building wealth, financial security and economic resilience for themselves and their communities. We are continuing our work on the ownership agenda, but are now embarking on SCP’s next strategic phase. In the coming years we will focus on solutions, projects, policy, advocacy and investments that reverse the trend towards greater wealth inequality and greater concentration of assets. This is a natural extension of our work on the ownership agenda. We believe that extreme wealth inequality is incompatible with democratic stability. We believe the system as currently designed leads to extreme wealth concentration and is therefore unsustainable. We believe that public policy can make an impact on these issues, and properly designed policy can incent private actors in better ways. Social Capital Partners – we invest in projects, build networks, conduct research and advocate for policies that reduce wealth concentration and expand asset ownership.

Faculty Supervisor:

Adrienne Davidson

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Partner:

Social Capital Partners

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

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