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We gratefully acknowledge that Hollyhock on Cortes Island is located in the traditional and ancestral territories of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin), ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) [...]

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union or Vancity, as it is commonly called, has been a longtime partner of Social Venture Institute and Hollyhock. In the spirit of this partnership, Vancity has [...]

One of the most inspiring parts of my job is connecting regularly with our brilliant presenters at Hollyhock. A conversation that stands out to me from recent months was with Sarah Crowell, who [...]

You’re never too old to join a revolution. At the ripe old age of 37, I took on a VP role at the Social Venture Network (now Social Venture Circle), having audaciously applied for the position [...]

Genus Capital Management Inc. has been offering innovative investment solutions for more than a quarter century. Now, Genus is championing Canada’s divest-invest movement with Fossil Free and [...]

Getting funding as an entrepreneur is not always easy, but luckily The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) prides itself as being the only bank exclusively devoted to entrepreneurs. The BDC [...]

It was August 15th. That was the day that the full reality of the pandemic hit me full force. It was then that I realized that we are in this for the long game – virtual connections, [...]

Horizon Distributors has been supporting SVI and its community for over a decade. We sat down (virtually) with Vice President Terri Newell who shared what lessons she and Horizon have learned in [...]

25 years ago, Hollyhock saw a need. Business and entrepreneurship was clearly ready for a major refresh. The age of profit-only valuation was creating more and more inequity, environmental [...]