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Owners Matters: Financing Community Ownership
This session explores innovative approaches to financing community ownership in Canada and beyond. Learn from impact investors and field builders who are paying attention to who is ultimately benefiting from ownership of their investments and who are seeking to shift large amounts [...]
Water Rangers’ 2023 Year in Review
Thrilled to share the highlights from our Investee Water Rangers' 2023 Year in Review, showcasing amazing achievements and impact! * 203,086 data points and 317 datasets on their data platform. That includes 119 new datasets! * Now more than 25,000 people trained [...]
Animikii’s Social Impact Report
We are so proud and celebrating our investee Animikii's 20th anniversary in 2023. Their social impact report - recorded during their retreat - shares the real stories behind their work. Their focus is on their shared stories of values. It's about the [...]
The Makehouse Co-Op’s Successful Conversion
We are so proud to share this story about one of our investees - The Makehouse Co-op by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation. The Makehouse's conversion experience offers an inspiring example to others. Read all about it in the feature here. [...]
Social Finance Forum: BC Edition
Earlier this year, the Social Finance Forum brought together hundreds of people from across the ecosystem to learn and connect. Kristi Fairholm Mader, Managing Director, was part of the plenary conversation around power and money, and on December 5th, Social Finance Forum [...]
Social Enterprise Conversations: Cowichan Valley
It was so great to spend time in beautiful Cowichan Valley on November 15th, sharing stories and lessons learned from pioneering and steady social entrepreneurs at the Duncan Social Enterprise Conversation. Huge kudos to Dominic Rockall and Amber Benedict from The Mindful [...]
Connect Money Impact 2023
On October 25th, Scale Collaborative partnered with Purppl and Future of Good to bring Connect Money Impact to Kelowna this year! There was a fantastic line-up of speakers and conversationalists, on topics ranging from community wealth, power, blended capital, scaling impact models, [...]
Social Enterprise Conversations: Campbell River
On July 18, Thrive Impact Fund hosted a Social Enterprise Conversation in Campbell River that offered a great discussion. A huge thank you to Rachael Weaver from Rivercity Inclusion, Alissa Assu from WestCoast Wildflowers, Bear Essential Oils for being willing to share [...]
Water Rangers Investment Readiness Journey
Thrive Impact Fund invested in Water Rangers in 2021. This case study shares Water Ranger's journey from conception, to launch to facing a significant capital gap that was hindering their ability to grow. This case study demonstrates how friendly networks [...]
Social Innovation Canada Investment Readiness Webinar Case Study Recap: Purppl
In case you missed it: SI Canada recently hosted an Investment Readiness Case Study webinar featuring Purppl. It was an informative session exploring how Purppl secured investment to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs and their journey to becoming the [...]









