Sector-Wide Support

As part of our mandate under the Social Finance Fund, we offer strategic support that we believe will offer sector-wide benefit.

Our objective is to assist in developing and implementing programs and services that will help build capacity among social finance intermediaries, whether new, emerging or established.

While often these supports are complementary to our investment thesis, and enhance the repayable investments we make, through this program we also are enabling market-level initiatives that reach a broader audience in the social finance sector.

Thematic areas for sector-wide support include relevant education and training programs, social finance events and shared-service provision.

Examples, Sector-Wide Support:

  • Training. We’ve launched the first Canadian-focused ImpactVC & Better Society Capital Training program. The training aims to bring a world-class approach to integrating impact into venture capital and applying that to the Canadian context. The program started in October 2024, with 17 SFIs having varying fund vintages participating in the five-week program.
  • Events. We supported several events that promoted the growth of the social finance sector including

At this time, we are not accepting funding requests for this program.