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Holiday gift guide: Support BC non-profits
This holiday season, consider supporting local non-profits and social enterprises through your gift purchasing and give back to these impactful organizations. By buying local from these organizations, each dollar you spend creates direct impact for the buyer, the seller and the community.
Takeaways from the League of Innovators Panel: The Future of Social Innovation
On November 18, 2021, Scale Collaborative Director of Innovation and Initiatives Kristi Fairholm Mader spoke alongside Keith Ippel from Spring Activator at the League of Innovators (LOI) Future of Social Innovation virtual panel, hosted by Rob Ironside. Here are the takeaways. We were inspired by Keith Ippel’s social innovation
The journey to Thrive Impact Fund
Thrive Impact Fund focuses on providing flexible and patient loans, providing the right capital at the right time to help social enterprises grow, unlocking untapped potential in local communities and providing a way for investors to make both financial and impactful returns.
CCSPI expansion grows social procurement across British Columbia
Investment in British Columbia Social Procurement Initiative (BCSPI) supports British Columbia small businesses, communities, and local workers through education, consulting, and support. The benefits will be felt as local government purchasing dollars are invested back into communities through the expansion of BCSPI.
How your money flows matters
There is a significant access gap to capital that is flexible, willing to risk and arrives at the right time. We decided to launch Thrive Impact Fund - an impact investment fund to remove capital barriers for non-profits, charities, and social enterprises.
2021 Thriving Non Profits applications open!
Thriving Non-Profits (TNP) is a cohort program designed to strengthen the financial stability and diversity of organizations to achieve greater impacts. Our mission is to develop the impact and civil society sector, shifting financially challenged organizations to financially powerful agents of change.
Non-profit scaling during COVID-19
During COVID, some non-profit organizations have had to scale quickly to meet spikes in demand. Quick growth brings stressors and challenges, and needs to be managed differently. Here’s how Soap for Hope Canada scaled, and strategies organizations facing fast growth can apply.
When the well runs dry: COVID-impacted non-profits and charities
The non-profit sector runs on fumes, bolstered by the incredible innovation, passion and human power of volunteers and staff. And, historically, when the economy struggles, the sector has stepped up to take care of families, communities and vulnerable people, planet and animals.
Non-profit and community acquisitions: Building community wealth
What if non-profits could leapfrog over early start-up pains and acquire businesses instead? What pathways and conditions for success are needed for this to work? Scale Collaborative, in partnership with four BC communities is exploring new non-profit acquisition and business ownership possibilities.
Foundations are untapped agents of change. We need them to step up now
As the non-profit sector experiences broad and long-lasting impacts in the face of COVID and struggles for survival, their ability to ‘do and advocate’ is significantly reduced. Foundations are needed here, right now. Here are some ideas for foundations to think about.
We need to yell to have the concerns of non-profits heard at the federal level. Better yet, how about a Minister?
We need a Minister. Not only in response to this year’s crisis and other urgent issues that arise, but also longer term, as an opportunity for Canada to build new ways to drive innovation in the social sector and ensure its vitality.
Non-profits need thought-out, targeted responses to COVID-19
The non-profits sector is unique, requiring thought through and targeted responses to COVID-19. Sector survival is at stake. Let’s ensure the sector continues to provide services to community and comes out the other side validated, appreciated and ready to face new challenges.