The Catalyst Community Finance Summit celebrates and connects leaders working on place-based and identity-based finance and just community spaces. Don’t miss this chance to connect in the heart of Winnipeg for this inspiring gathering. catalystcommunityfinance.ca/catalyst-com... #CatalystSummit2026

Don’t just attend the Catalyst Summit — be the reason people remember it! Doers, dreamers, and disruptors from every corner of the community finance field, submit your session ideas to inspire action and deepen impact. Applications close at year end. Fill out the Typeform here lnkd.in/gYxnfuTT

Catalyst Community Finance Summit 2026 puts you at the centre. 🟡 Everyone is an expert. 🟥 No panels. 🟣 Circle dialogue formats 🎡 Field Festival sessions hosted by the community. Grow your connections during our networking events. Register today to join us in the circle. lnkd.in/gU2Uk4Ub

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...

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...

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

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 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

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

#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

More challenges and actions #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Ensure more voices heard, centre different economic and autonomous systems 2. Push back against assimilation 3. Focus on financial healing; history of economic exclusion; 4. Tap into Ancestral knowledge 5. Stay intentional re: DEI #TPSIC2025

Challenges & Actions #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Financing for capacity building over long term 2. Need more people on the financing side 3. Power held and fear of risk; overcoming this 4. Supply and demand: build supply 5. Better communication 6. Anchor institutions must lead #TPSIC2025

Next 5 yrs opportunities for #CommunityWealthBuilding cont... 1. Thinking about how non-Indigenous community can support too; how to build on #LandBack settlements 2. Moving settlement dollars into community investment 3. more shared learning eg. w/ Catalyst CF #TPSIC2025

Near future of #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Looking beyond city hubs to local leadership 2. Greater understanding of the need to build the pipeline to investment 3. Building place-based funds (thx for the shout-out MJ) 4. Build on land settlements to Indigenous communities; cont... #TPSIC2025

We need ideas! We need organizing. We can create parallel structures for economic development. Start to shift flows of capital to community. (Audrey Jamal, University of Guelph) #TPSIC2025

cont... strategies for #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. On income side: access to experience for immigrants, supporting bold ideas eg. Raven Indigenous Impact Fund; Thinking about risk vs. perception of risk; 2. From university: teaching different models of ownership, building new knowledges #TPSIC2025

Key strategies for #CommunityWealthBuilding includes: 1. ecosystem approaches 2. for Indigenous people, starts with Indigenous ways of doing and being; realigning wealth from an Indigenous POV. 3. access to land, resources, and free capital; not borrowed capital; more to come #TPSIC2025

Wondering if anyone here is watching the People's Social Impact Conference #TPSIC2025 today? I've just joined the #CommunityWealthBuilding panel to listen in. Hoping to share insights here if there's energy :) If you haven't seen the lineup go here: tpsic.ca 5 days of free programming starting today

Join us at our first Catalyst meet-up of the year where we'll discuss together the kinds of supports, peer-spaces and resources we can facilitate for you over the coming year. Register at the link below to get the details #communityfinance #canada #community