The Community Company

04/15/2026

We’re hiring for the summer! 🌟

The Community Company is looking for a Market Research Analyst to join our team through the Canada Summer Jobs program.

Who we are: We are a certified B Corp that partners with local charities to launch social innovation projects powered by community.

What you’ll do: You’ll gain hands-on experience in everything from marketing and business development to social media content and market research. We’re looking for someone with a marketing mindset and a genuine passion for social change!

Is this you? We'd love to see your application.

💻 Job Description + How to Apply: https://www.communitycompany.org/careers
🔜 Apply as soon as possible
👋 Position Starts: April 27, 2026

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02/26/2026

Our generous community continues to provide opportunities for growth. A recent donation from Rob and Michele Way of Swiftspace provided funding for two snowblowers. Our IOB crew work with two local landscaping companies as sidewalk crews. Their jobs take them to Cambridge sites and over to Guelph where they clear snow from seven complexes. Crew member Andy works with the newly acquired Toro 24 inch snowblower while Graydon uses a Briggs & Stratton 30 inch. Donations to purchase equipment allows us to add crew members, giving more men the opportunity to learn new skills. Many thanks to Rob and Michele for their generous support to end homelessness.

02/10/2026

Hi everyone 👋 I’m Christine, the newest member of The Community Company, joining as our Marketing and Partnerships Lead.

I recently joined after moving to Canada to be closer to my partner’s KW family. My background is in brand strategy and entrepreneurship, with the last seven years spent running my own coffee company. But so far, the energy I’ve felt from seeing our charity partners' impact is stronger than any espresso shot I’ve ever had! ☕️

In my first few months, I’ve had the privilege of rolling up my sleeves with our partners to accomplish big things like Kitchener-Waterloo Library of Things hard-launching their OTF Grow Grant or A Better Tent City fundraising for Tiny City Makers. Or helping Basadi Sewing expand into professional sewing services (picture is of Mujidat and I celebrating at their OTF Launch).

I've had the best time delving into our clients' communities and cannot wait to see what we create together in 2026.

When I have my “work hat off”, I’m embracing my newcomer status by:
🍑 Eating my weight in Ontario peaches during peak season (Redhaven Freestones anyone?)
🌊 Soaking in every lake I can find in the summer (turns out there’s a lot of lakes).
⛸️ Attempting, with varying degrees of success, to ice skate.

I’ll be the voice behind our stories here, and I can’t wait to share more about the innovative work happening with our charity partners and behind our own doors.

If we haven’t met yet, I’d love to connect. Drop a comment below, bonus points if you share a favourite local gem or activity I should try as I explore my new home.

12/12/2025

Catch our team at the Eco Friendly Holiday Market tonight until 8pm at the Victoria Park Pavilion!

Shop with Emma and Christine representing and selling the perfect holiday gifts from and ! 🎁🎄

Friday, Dec 12th: 3-8pm
📍80 Schneider Ave

12/09/2025

What if your holiday gifts could create jobs and feed families right here in the Waterloo Region?

We’ve curated the ultimate guide to 10+ local initiatives doing just that. Support community-driven initiatives in your own backyard and shop for gifts that give in more ways than one.

Did we miss anything? Let us know other cool holiday initiatives in the comment.

🔗 https://www.communitycompany.org/blog/gift-wrap-impact-the-waterloo-region-social-good-holiday-guide

12/05/2025

Holiday experience announcement that helps food security programs at Cambridge Food Bank 🎉🎄

FoodForward CFB, a new social enterprise of Cambridge Food Bank hosts team building experiences that make it easy to swap out holiday office parties for something that creates heartwarming impact for the community!

At a recent experience we attended the team made a whopping 188 meals in an hours work in the kitchen. All meals then went directly into the food bank that day. We also explored the food bank on a tour and sampled jams made from their community garden produce!

It's the perfect team building experience and they now offer experiences with a holiday twist.

Explore their holiday experiences at:
https://www.foodforwardcfb.org/holiday-team-building-experiences-that-give-back

12/03/2025

The holidays have arrived and our friends at A Better Tent City have been working hard on the ornaments and holiday cards to usher us into the season.

Each card and ornament was crafted by A Better Tent City resident through the arts therapy social enterprise, Tiny City Makers. Every purchase supports the continuation of their arts therapy programming.

By shopping Tiny City Makers, you're supporting creativity, healing, and trauma-free income for folks with lived experience of homelessness.

✉️Shop holiday cards >> online at: https://www.abettertentcity.org/store

🎄Shop ornaments >> exclusively at Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery gift shop while supplies last. (only 70 unique ornaments were created).

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12/01/2025

Close that Amazon Prime tab. Stop scrolling looking for those big-box sales and let's look at what is in our own backyard.

From Cambridge to Waterloo, a bustling ecosystem of community-minded organizations is ready to help you gift wrap impact this holiday season. Gifts that do more, like creating job for folks experiencing barriers to work or providing food security for families in need.

We’ve curated the Gift Wrap Impact: Waterloo Region Holiday Guide for Social Good to make your shopping easy and impactful. 10+ ways to support local initiatives that give gifts that keep on giving.

Guide: https://www.communitycompany.org/blog/gift-wrap-impact-the-waterloo-region-social-good-holiday-guide

Share the guide with your friends to expand the positive impact of community-minded purchasing power.

A bustling ecosystem of local organizations is redefining the season with unique holiday gifts, experiences, and workshops that give back. We're talking gifts that are driving real, systemic change. See our last of 10+ ways to shop, support and enjoy gifts that keep on giving this holiday season.

11/28/2025

With every good story, there’s evolution, change, and growth for the characters in it. We have found ourselves at the point in our story, where our community has inspired us to evolve and grow.

You are that community.

This brand evolution is a visual representation of our commitment to you: the people, grass-root organizations, non-profits, charities, funders, and institutions that partner with us to elevate community impact.

As we developed this new brand, the concept of an ecosystem kept coming to mind. From natural environments to vibrant societies, we know that abundance grows from mutual support, symbiosis, and interconnectedness.

We see this every day in the abundant strengths of partners: FoodForward CFB, In Our Backyard, Kitchener-Waterloo Library of Things, Basadi Sewing, Tiny City Makers, Next Gen Photography, and Ontario Nature, to name a few.

We chose imagery of deep-rooted ecosystems to reflect both our shared purpose and our promise: to harness the power of community together, to build a future where everyone can find belonging in an interconnected, abundant society.

Thank you for being the community we get to walk alongside on this journey.

Read more about our re-launch and the “why” behind this change on our blog: https://www.communitycompany.org/blog/unveiling-our-new-brand-and-the-why-behind-it

One thing we love about our new logo is how everyone sees different ecosystems within it. What do you see? Let us know in the comments.

Logo design by Enthizi Creative.

11/25/2025

It's been over 3 years since I've written an update like this.

I've been relatively quiet on our social media since 2023, but I promise the silence was for good reason.

The Community Company has evolved from selling products to working with charities to build and scale their social enterprises. We have 15+ active projects, and that number is growing every month!

Our charity partners have also invited us into the world of strategic planning and program evaluation, which has taken us to new places like Alberta, Northern Ontario, and Newfoundland.

I'm also incredibly proud to share that we're now a team of 4.

Hiring Zoe in 2022 and Emma in 2023 has required me to learn how to lead a team, while also helping them become leaders in this space. Having them has kept me incredibly busy in the best way, and it meant social media had to take a backseat...
..until today!

We hired Christine in September, and she brings with her years of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, and authentically building a brand.

Christine has been working behind the scenes on our new brand (anyone notice the logo change? 👀) and will be leading our marketing from here on out. She is eager to share with you all the story of our new brand, some cool projects we've worked on, and exciting new initiatives for the holidays!

But for today, I just want to say a massive thank you for being our community. Community is the constant that grounds us, inspires us, and partners alongside us to create sustainable change. Thank you for being a part of our ecosystem.

If you've made it to the end of this post, it means you believe in our work, and I am incredibly grateful to have you around. I would love it if you left a comment about the first project that introduced you to The Community Company!

Thanks for continuing to support us as we grow.

- Justin Chan

12/20/2024

Thank you to the Waterloo Region Record for a great article on our newest project, Tiny City Makers.

They interviewed a few of the residents at A Better Tent City and highlighted the social impact this project is creating. One resident shared:

“Whatever is going on in my head, comes out in the artwork somehow. Not everybody understands it, but at least I know I have expressed myself and got it out.”

If you're looking for a last minute Christmas gift, consider buying an ornament set to help us sell out!! We also only have 9 sets of ornaments left for sale 🎄

Shop Products Tiny City Makers A social enterprise project of A Better Tent City, officially launched on December 11, 2024! Tiny City Makers is an arts-based therapy program designed for the residents of A Better Tent City (ABTC). We use all proceeds from the sale of products to compensate ABTC resi...

12/20/2024

Thank you to the Waterloo Region Record for a great article on our newest project, Tiny City Makers.

They interviewed a few of the residents at A Better Tent City and highlighted the social impact this project is creating.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/a-better-tent-citys-handmade-christmas-ornaments-for-hope-and-healing/article_7a711433-ae56-530b-b9c4-81700fd949cc.html

Also, if you're looking for a last minute Christmas gift, consider buying an ornament set to help us sell out!! We also only have 9 sets of ornaments left for sale 🎄

https://www.abettertentcity.org/tiny-city-makers

Shop Products Tiny City Makers A social enterprise project of A Better Tent City, officially launched on December 11, 2024! Tiny City Makers is an arts-based therapy program designed for the residents of A Better Tent City (ABTC). We use all proceeds from the sale of products to compensate ABTC resi...