Partnered Collections and Series

Generously funded by World Education Services, this series seeks to advance trust-based philanthropy within the Canadian context, recognizing the unique socio-economic landscape and diverse needs of communities across the country. Trust can no longer serve as a buzzword. It needs to be a core principle within the philanthropy sector in Canada. By fostering genuine relationships with grantees, stakeholders, and community leaders, we aim to drive conversations, influence learning, and inspire the philanthropic sector to imagine and adopt radical grantmaking – because now is the time for radical change.

Stories from the Social Finance Forum 2024.

This series is made possible thanks to the generous help of Small Economy Works and their Inspire programs, which supports participants to set their own career or entrepreneurship goals guided by their interests, culture and community in Canada's North.

Social Capital Partners and the impacts to small businesses across Canada.

At RBC, we believe that thriving communities can create opportunities for all. With urgent environment needs, a rapidly changing workforce and growing inequalities in our society, RBC aims to tackle today’s challenges head-on. That’s why RBC is supporting the transition to a net-zero economy, equipping people with future-ready skills, and driving inclusive opportunities for greater prosperity. In collaboration with Future of Good, we're showcasing those efforts and the stories accompanying them.

This series is made possible by HR Intervals, a comprehensive, bilingual free online knowledge base to help non-profit managers, employees and board members better understand, address, and guide people management within their organizations.

Women in Canada have felt some of the most severe economic disruptions throughout COVID-19 - and the overall economic impacts will be felt for years to come. With the leadership of Scotiabank supporting this fellowship series, we'll be diving into what it takes to prioritize women's economic resilience and why this is essential to consider if we want to recover from the pandemic, profiling people and initiatives driving women's economic resilience as communities rebuild.

How work and volunteerism go hand-in-hand in the non-profit sector, and how these groups are dealing with a shrinking volunteer base.

From the Government of Canada's Social Finance Fund to Future of Good & SVX's annual Social Finance Forum that both occurred in June 2023, Canadians are wondering about the potential opportunity for social finance to solve complex problems. This journalism fellowship, supported by Suncor Energy Foundation, will allow Future of Good to bring dedicated news, insights and analysis to this important topic.

Explore the ways social impact organizations are funded to do the work they do — and how those funding models are changing rapidly post-pandemic. From shifting philanthropy's power dynamics to the next generation of donors, we dive in.

Social purpose teams and organizations across Canada are reckoning with this fact, the implications for their work, and, in many cases, their own history and complicity with structural and systemic exclusion. Activists have been calling for this reckoning for decades, and organizations are only scratching the surface. From inclusive internal organizational culture to anti-racist program design and service delivery to centring racial justice in grantmaking and so much more, it’s a difficult yet essential learning journey organizations are on. They need in-depth reporting on what works, what doesn’t and what the trends are. This 2023 series and independent journalism ​​is made possible by the support of the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund.

Canada’s aid and international cooperation system is at a crossroads.With the climate crisis, slew of humanitarian responses, rising extreme poverty rates, gender-based violence, a growing debt crisis, and global refugee crisis, and COVID’s reminder that our wellbeing is intimately connected with that of everyone else in the world, what will the next 36 months of global leadership look like for Canada? This fellowship is generously sponsored by IDRF, CARE Canada, CECI, World Vision Canada, Save the Children Canada, MEDA, The Mastercard Foundation, Plan International Canada, WUSC-EUMC and the Canadian Red Cross.

How digital innovation and new technologies, such as AI, Cryptocurrency and more - are impacting and driving social change.

Communities large and small enable a feeling of belonging, vibrant culture, local enterprise, of social cohesion and encourage our sense of collective identity. Between a pandemic, climate crisis, digital divides, social isolation, and rapid shifts in work that continue to reshape almost every way of life, we are now noticing the beginnings of deep community transitions across Canada. In partnership with Co-operators, this editorial fellowship will dive into just exactly that - unpacking insights, trends, and patterns from transitioning neighbourhoods and cities, and starting new and powerful conversations about collective resilience for changing communities.

Climate change directly affects human health — and it affects some people’s health more than others.

GreenShield and Future of Good are taking a deeper look at the health and wellbeing of those on the front lines of care. Changemakers say they are burned out, stressed and under-resourced. We're looking to find solutions to help those who care, care for themselves. As a non-profit health and benefits company, GreenShield is committed to investing $75 million towards social impact initiatives with an aim to impact 1 million people by 2025. These stories and discussions should be highlighted, celebrated, shared and amplified across sectors to spark awareness, knowledge, inspire change, and empower changemakers to address health and wellbeing disparities in Canada.

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.

Young Impact Leaders 2024 - supporting young changemakers for the future of our workforce, with threads of: equitable prosperity, skills for a thriving future, and green economy.