Resources

From policy ideas to features on organizations doing inspiring work, to learning resources you can engage with, take your time exploring these articles and stories.

Community Finance Explainer

This article breaks down some of the concepts in community finance.

Financial Four

Four experts share secrets to scaling community finance without tension

Here’s how community finance organizations can scale their impact sustainably.

How experts are dismantling colonial approaches to business and housing

Here’s how barriers to Indigenous home ownership can be broken down by decolonizing financial structures.

Five must read resources on place-based impact investing

A curated collection of articles on place-based investing from recognized and respected sources.

Place-Based Impact Investing: Catalyzing women-led enterprises in Ontario’s COVID recovery

This article highlights the need to support women-led and women-serving businesses with place-based impact investment solutions.

Five Ways to Catalyze Community Capital in Ontario

This article summarizes five (5) key actions for the community capital movement to consider in supporting organizations and enterprises that can lead at a local level.

Why Community Capital Institutions Could be the Key to Recovery

How Canada can leverage community capital institutions to help lead recovery and regeneration efforts that can support local communities.

Place-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

Three practitioner briefs designed to focus on building strong ecosystems, mapping opportunities and capacities, and deploying capital.

Beyond Donations: How Two Canadian Organizations are Rebuilding Community Wealth Post-COVID

How 10C and VERGE Capital are leveraging innovative ways to mobilize social finance for community resilience.

Catalyst Community Finance Initiative Ecosystem Convening Summary

Report summarizing the Ecosystem Convening with various ecosystem stakeholders in March 2022

Catalyst Community Finance Initiative Stakeholder Engagement Report

Report detailing the findings of interviews from 35 community finance ecosystem stakeholders