Catalyst Community Finance
SERIES
Catalyst Community Finance
About This Series
Social finance, impact investing and community finance are an important part of today’s social impact ecosystem. In order to develop and scale place-based community finance Canada, social changemakers need to understand that transformations are needed now more than ever before. In partnership with Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative, Future of Good produced these articles to enable knowledge-sharing amongst community finance and capacity organizations.
Social Finance Explainer Pt.2
Younger generations are looking through the lens of how they’re investing their capital.
How experts are dismantling colonial approaches to business and housing
“[We] try to navigate that nexus between mainstream capitalism and this ‘Indigenous capitalism’”
Taking the long view, EntrepreNorth supports Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs to create transformative change
“I would say the other major challenge … is just both the effects of colonization and all the healing and reconciliation that still needs to occur across the North and within Canada.”
Four experts share secrets to scaling community finance without tension
“It’s imperfect right now, but […] there’s really amazingly interesting activity that’s happening in community financing.”
Despite constrained resources, community finance organizations shaping future of rural, northern Canada
“We’re able to find entrepreneurs that may have faced challenges beyond the balance sheet.”
Your job. Your mission. Your news.
With your support, the sector you're building gets the journalism it deserves, and you get a tax receipt.
