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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

Catalyst Community Finance August Meet-up

Join our August Meet-Up as we hear from the designers or and participants in the Towards Accelerator program.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jul 17

Excited for the Towards Accelerator Pitch Showcase starting in 7mins. If you're open the next 2 hours, join us! lu.ma/6766qdc7 #communityfinance

The Final Pitch: Towards Community Finance Showcase · Zoom · Luma

Join us for the capstone event of the Towards: Community Finance Development Accelerator, where ten bold, mission-driven community finance intermediaries will…

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jul 2

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...

Catalyst Community Finance July Meet-up

Join our July Meet-Up as we get into a federal policy dialogue and open the floor to your community finance updates and questions.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · May 20

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...

Catalyst Community Finance June Meet-up

Join our June Meet-Up as we go into the "Investor Boardroom" to better understand what makes them tick.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

Catalyst Community Finance May Meet-up

Join our May Meet-Up to support two of our peer organizations work through a program or organizational challenge.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

Catalyst Community Finance March Meet-up

Following our 2025 kickoff, we are meeting in March to explore Building Community Infrastructure: finance, relationships and other capitals

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

CityTalk Canada - Canadian Urban Institute

We bring together policymakers, community leaders, and practitioners for collaborative learning and problem-solving across urban Canada.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · Feb 13

A good reminder that our economy is not about money - it’s about people. About meeting people’s needs. #EconSky

INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · Feb 3

Should you be able to sell your kidney? Your vote? What about immigrant auctions? Or scalping tickets... to a doctor’s appointment?
👉 whatmoneycantbuy.org 👀
Michael Sandel leads twelve global students in asking where markets serve the public good & where they don’t belong.

What Money Can't Buy

What Money Can't Buy is a six part series exploring the role of money and morals in today's world.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Feb 7

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...

Catalyst Community Finance Meet-up

Let's come together at the Catalyst Community Finance Meet-up to meet each other and plan a way forward that will support us all.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Feb 3

Check out this story featuring #EntrepreNorth and their work driving Indigenous language reclamation. Thanks for sharing @makeway.org

MakeWay @makeway.org · Feb 3

#EntrepreNorth recently brought together its Indigenous Language Innovation Cohort—a group of entrepreneurs driving language reclamation in the North. It was a time to connect, reflect, and explore big ideas on innovation and #SustainableLivelihoods.

Read more: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Northern entrepreneurship program focuses on Indigenous languages | CBC News

A group of Indigenous entrepreneurs from across the North were in Whitehorse last week, learning about building sustainable businesses and livelihoods with a focus on Indigenous languages.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

Catalyst Community Finance Meet-up

Let's come together at the Catalyst Community Finance Meet-up to meet each other and plan a way forward that will support us all.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

<span>Help Build the Movement</span>

Sign up and join the community benefits movement with TCBN, and help create good jobs for all.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Equitable Transit Oriented Affordable Housing - Social Innovation Canada

Ensuring the benefits of transit development are equitably shared Equitable Transit Oriented Affordable Housing is an approach that addresses issues around housing affordability, transit-oriented deve...

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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.

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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.

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Future of Good @futureofgood.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

‘Banking deserts’ becoming a familiar problem across Canada | Future of Good

As Canadian banks adapt to a digital landscapethe transition to online meant to make banking easier is instead making financial services less accessible.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience - Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience

Helping nonprofits thrive in a digital and data-driven world.

ccndr.ca

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#TPSIC2025 Critical leadership on digital resilience for nonprofits being provided by ccndr.ca Check them out.

Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience - Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience

Helping nonprofits thrive in a digital and data-driven world.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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.

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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;

Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · Jan 30

#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