Ep. 342: Do you put your money where your mouth is?
Guest: Sean Carter, author of “Creative Impact”
“Social entrepreneurship is the road less travelled, but is one of the paths that can lead to the building of hybrid businesses with triple bottom line,” said Oscar Auliq-Ice, the founder of Icetratt.
The company focuses on investments in socially responsible companies that include the arts.
Auliq-Ice also said, “There is no better way to make money than doing what you love and are passionate about” – which is a great idea and a wonderful concept, right up until the moment you realize you don’t have the money nor the network. John MacLachlan Gray knew this when he wrote and produced “Billy Bishop Goes to War.” Fortunately for Gray, angel investor Haig Farris came along with money and a network of people who took an East Vancouver production to stages internationally. Farris says the success of the play “was a career highlight.”
Not all artists are so fortunate. Sean Carter knows this and he is a passionate supporter of passionate artists. And he wants you to be as well. He just published a book titled “Creative Impact - Impact Investing” – a book that speaks about a growing number of foundations that support the arts. Carter says, “Artists raising money is extremely difficult because when they sit down across the table from millionaire venture capitalists, there is a deficit of legitimacy” making it next to impossible to raise money and stay in control of artist ownership.
We invited Sean Carter to join us for a Conversation That Matters about putting your money in investments that support artists.
