Catalyst Community Finance

Join us for our August Meetup to hear from the team behind the Towards Accelerator program and some of the inspiring community finance organizations that took part. We will leave good time for meeting new community finance folks and hearing from you all as well. www.eventbrite.com/e/1492352700...

The Final Pitch: Towards Community Finance Showcase · Zoom · Luma Join us for the capstone event of the Towards: Community Finance Development Accelerator, where ten bold, mission-driven community finance intermediaries will…

Excited for the Towards Accelerator Pitch Showcase starting in 7mins. If you're open the next 2 hours, join us! lu.ma/6766qdc7 #communityfinance

Join us at our July Meet-Up where we'll share progress on our community finance policy campaign and get caught up with all your projects and initiatives.

The Catalyst Community Finance Meet-ups happen every month in 2025.

Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyst-c...

Join us at our June Meet-Up where we’ll make our way into the “Investor’s Boardroom” to explore the role of general partners, the building blocks of fund development, eligibility requirements and more. A unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1366117778...

Hi friends, please join us at our May Catalyst Community Finance Meet Up on May 13. We'll be hosting our first Peer to Peer Input sessions with Shorefast and Community Foundation of South Okanagan both stepping up to present. Join us www.eventbrite.com/e/1334679786...

For our March Meet-Up we're looking at Community Infrastructure starting with "supply:" asking what the community wants and needs before asking what financing is best suited to see those outcomes realized. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyst-c...

Really thoughtful conversation on #CityTalk from Canadian Urban Institute: When Global Hits Local: Navigating Tariffs on Canada’s Main Streets feat. @mendelmatt.bsky.social Doug Griffiths, Tori Williamson, Rino Bortolin and Justin Towndale. Hosted by @maryrowe.bsky.social citytalkcanada.ca

A good reminder that our economy is not about money - it’s about people. About meeting people’s needs. #EconSky

If you haven't registered yet for our first 2025 Community Finance meet-up, here's the link. At this session we'll get to know each other better and discuss ways to make these regular community finance gatherings as useful as possible. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyst-c...

Check out this story featuring #EntrepreNorth and their work driving Indigenous language reclamation. Thanks for sharing @makeway.org

Working in community finance or interested in learning more? Join us for our first meet-up of 2025 where we'll get to know each other and co-create a purposeful year together. Tuesday Feb 11 at 12pmET www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyst-c...

<span>Help Build the Movement</span> Sign up and join the community benefits movement with TCBN, and help create good jobs for all.

The work of Community Benefits Networks to advocate for equitable outcomes in housing projects is essential. See the work of current speaker Rosemarie Powell and the Toronto Community Benefits Network #TPSIC2025

Equitable Transit Oriented Affordable Housing - Social Innovation Canada Ensuring the benefits of transit development are equitably shared Equitable Transit Oriented Affordable Housing is an approach that addresses issues around housing affordability, transit-oriented deve...

Challenges in Affordable Housing Dev?
The unintended consequences of good intentions. Eg. rising cost of land & housing when investing in transit. One project working to get in front of this challenge is Equitable Transit Oriented Development See here: sicanada.org/program/tran... #TPSIC2025

What is most rewarding in the work for affordable housing at the moment?
1. hope in relationships with people
2. collaboration across sector
3. opportunity for economic development on the ground
4. seeing the excitement of those involved in seeing momentum growing
5. generational effort
#TPSIC2025

Listening into the Affordable Housing "power" panel at the #TPSIC2025 People's Social Impact Conference. Panelist orgs includes Tapestry, Toronto Community Benefits Network, Blue Door, Dream Affordable Housing, Somali Centre for Culture and Recreation, CP Planning and Civic Action

#TPSIC2025 This is a critical time for nonprofit digital resilience. Check out these three orgs to learn more: Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience ccndr.ca
Centre for Digital Governance dgc-cgn.org
And Imagine Canada imaginecanada.ca/en
Important panel to close out Day 2

#TPSIC2025 What policy would help nonprofit digital resilience?
1. Change how funding works to ensure digital is embedded in grant instruments
2. Regulatory modernization - not keeping pace with technology
3. Look at how we are governed; need to reflect on how rule-making is done.

#TPSIC2025 Think scaleability, says Keith Jansa of Digital Governance Council. Think of how to scale platforms across, to have net benefit back to communities and orgs.
We use common infrastructure, platforms we reply on. To scale, there's a need for digital public infrastructure.

‘Banking deserts’ becoming a familiar problem across Canada | Future of Good As Canadian banks adapt to a digital landscapethe transition to online meant to make banking easier is instead making financial services less accessible.

Banking deserts are becoming more common across Canada as financial institutions shut down branches in rural and remote areas.

These closures hit seniors, small businesses, and Indigenous communities the hardest. ⚠️

Learn more: 🔗 futureofgood.co/banking-dese...

#banking #finance #equity #news

Investment in digital resilience needs to be taken as fundamental to quality delivery of all programs and services.
Govt needs to open their minds on these ideas.
Nonprofits need to be at the table for all discussions - AI included.
#TPSIC2025

Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience - Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience Helping nonprofits thrive in a digital and data-driven world.

#TPSIC2025 Imagine Canada imaginecanada.ca/en and Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience guiding development and infrastructure supports for the Canadian sector.

Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience - Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience Helping nonprofits thrive in a digital and data-driven world.

#TPSIC2025 Critical leadership on digital resilience for nonprofits being provided by ccndr.ca Check them out.

#TPSIC2025 in Rural Canada, lots of orgs don't have high speed internet; certainly this is a challenge for digital resilience. Provincial Govt's switching to fully digital services within a frame where many communities can't access it. We need to be sure to focus some attention on the basics.

#TPSIC2025 On orgs being left behind in the digital resilience quest? What does resilience mean in this context? Tap into skills development, collective infrastructure, sharing data btw and within orgs, coordination, there are pockets of innovation we can tap into;

#TPSIC2025 More on challenges for nonprofits to digital resilience:
1. Looking at digital skills gap;
2. 75% report gaps in cybersecurity
3. Some leaders diving in; others far behind

#TPSIC2025 talking challenges to digital resilience for nonprofits:
1. Interaction right now is between public and private but investment not on the table for nonprofits yet
2. Charitable sector is dominated by small charities and nps.; how are they building infrastructures that can support privacy?

Sad we could only make one sesssion at #TPSIC2025 today, but just tuning into Digital Resilience for Nonprofits. What have people heard today!?

We won't be able to follow as much tomorrow (Thursday) at the #TPSIC2025 People's Social Impact Conference but we'll do our best! We will look forward to catching up with your insights too!

Next at #TPSIC2025 Future of Employee Ownership
Talking challenges first:
1. Lack of advisor knowledge
2. Getting more to majority employee owned
3. Broadly, very constrained idea of what businesses are; people don't understand co-ops; huge financial literacy gap
4. Build an ecosystem of support

Thanks to a great #CommunityWealthBuilding panel - lots of insights. As this community grows, we want to be sure the magic is captured. Stay in touch over the next 5 days #TPSIC2025 Big props to www.setsi.ca for hosting. Remember you can register for free here: tpsic.ca