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Exclusive: Dozens of grassroots groups cut off from funding after Ontario Trillium Foundation repealed ‘shared platform’ policy

“I don’t think it’s really being inclusive … we should all have the same opportunity to shoot our shot.”

Future of Good_Minister Karina Gould
INTERVIEW: Karina Gould, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development shares her learnings and aspirations for Canada’s new Social Finance Fund

“We are doing something totally new, totally innovative that the government of Canada has not done before.”

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INTERVIEW: Maison de l’innovation sociale’s outgoing executive director talks about the organization’s achievements and where social innovation is heading in Canada

Patrick Dubé says La MIS has created a distinctive value proposition — one complimentary to Quebec’s support ecosystem

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Curious about the Social Finance Forum? Here are six sessions that will bring you up-to speed

Future of Good and SVX bring Canada’s premier impact investing event to changemakers from coast-to-coast-to-coast

Manvir Bhangu (centre) is the executive director of Laadliyan, a non-profit organization that secured a $15,000 grant from the Peter Gilgan Foundation.
Non-qualified donees reap rewards after hard fought battle for regulatory change

New law a catalyst for Toronto-based foundation to grant $90,000 to non-qualified donees through new Community Grants program

Metal detectors, social workers and naloxone: how Canadian libraries are responding to communities in crisis

“The public library is the community’s living room.”

Line St. Amour, executive director of Plein Milieu, signs ownership papers for the organization’s newly purchased building while seated next to François Lefebvre, who’s father owned said property for many years. Board members Isabelle Raffestin (right) and Linda Roy (left) look on.
How an $18.6 million dollar fund helps community organizations beat speculators and own their own spaces

Twenty partners, including public and private investors, philanthropic foundations, and labour funds, have joined forces to develop a suite of loan programs designed to help social purpose organizations beat rent inflation

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Could Canada’s largest union tackle the non-profit wage gap? One Calgary counsellor believes it can

“I’m not blaming employers. Employers are doing the best they can with the meager funds that they’re provided with.”

Minister for Families, Children, and Social Development Karina Gould launching the Social Finance Fund
Government of Canada announces three Social Finance Fund wholesalers

Realize Capital Partners, Boann Social Impact, and CAP Finance will administer the long-awaited fund

Climate Change
Come for the heat pump, stay for the (climate justice) revolution? A bold bet on a new kind of advocacy-focused business model

“Issue-based organizing has been the primary model of the Left for the last 40 years…and issue-based organizations do not grow to scale,” says Peter Murray, founder of US-based organization Accelerate Change.

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