Scale Collaborative

06/05/2026

📣 Connect Money Impact session announcement: Community Wealth, Ownership & Local Investment

What happens when communities invest in themselves? This session explores how community wealth can be built and retained through local investment, shared ownership models, community bonds, institutional investment, and whole-community approaches to economic development.

The conversation will examine how municipalities, organizations, and residents can play a role in investing in place — supporting community-owned assets, sharing resources, and creating systems that prioritize long-term social progress and local resilience.

Moderated by Tracey Brown, CEO of the Nanaimo Foundation, with panelists:
• Michel Woolner, PacificSport Vancouver Island
• Ted Pahl, Island Crisis Care Society
• Ben Geselbracht, City Councillor, City of Nanaimo
• Bruce T. Batchelor Trelawny Consulting Group

Join us June 23 in Nanaimo at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. Register now: www.connectmoneyimpact.ca

06/03/2026

📣 Connect Money Impact session annoucement: Investing in Place: Food Systems, Agriculture & Supply Chains

Vancouver Island and coastal communities operate within a geographically constrained and import-dependent food system, one increasingly exposed to disruption. At the same time, food represents a significant opportunity for economic development when approached as core infrastructure rather than a commodity.

This session brings together perspectives from farming, Indigenous-led food systems, and community advocacy to explore how land access, capital models, and ownership structures are shaping emerging approaches. Together, panelists will examine what it takes to build resilient, place-based food economies and who must be at the centre of that shift.

Moderated by Erin Crampton, Transformational Investing in Food Systems with panelists:

• Graham Bradley: Owner/Manager, Good Earth Farm
• Renea-Dallas: Counsellor, ‘Namgis First Nation
• Faerlyn Bush: Co-founder, Lady Faer Designs

Join us June 23 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo. Register now: www.connectmoneyimpact.ca

05/28/2026

⏰ Early bird tickets for Connect Money Impact 2026 end June 1st, and space is limited! Join us June 23 in Nanaimo at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre for a full day of inspiration, learning, and connection with social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and ecosystem builders from across the sector.

Connect Money Impact 2026 is a space to explore how capital, community, and business can work differently to support stronger, more resilient communities. Through collaborative learning, practical conversations, and relationship-building, we’ll dive into topics connected to community wealth, food systems, climate, and more.

Register now before early bird pricing ends: www.connectmoneyimpact.ca

05/14/2026

📣 We’re thrilled to share the release of the Scale Collaborative 2025 Impact Report! This year’s report reflects a year of integration, growth, and deepening impact across our ecosystem of programs, partners, and communities. In 2025, we continued to support organizations to move from strategy into action and investment, including:

🎓 Thriving Non-Profits engaged 106 organizations in cohort learning, hosted 17 sector webinars, and supported a growing community of over 3,000 members, building confidence and capacity for long-term sustainability.
🫶 We supported 54 organizations through our coaching and consulting work, helping leaders implement revenue diversification strategies, strengthen operations, and build financial resilience.
💸 Thrive Impact Fund raised $9.27M and deployed $5.3M into social impact initiatives, supporting 23 portfolio organizations working across areas such as housing, food security, and climate.
💡 Scale Institute advanced research, innovation, and sector-building efforts, including work on access to capital, Connect Money Impact, and Impact Guarantee to strengthen Canada’s social finance ecosystem.
⚓ the Dock - Centre for Social Impact continued to grow as a vibrant community hub, welcoming 200 members and hosting 22 events that foster connection, collaboration, and shared learning in downtown Victoria.

As always, none of this is possible without the passion and dedication of our incredible team, and our deeply values-aligned partners. This work is rooted in community, connection, and a shared commitment to transform systems so communities can thrive.

As we look ahead to 2026, we’re excited to continue strengthening our ecosystem, deepening partnerships, and supporting organizations to move from vision to action and investment.

👉 Read the full report to read more about the impact we co-created last year: https://scalecollaborative.ca/2025-impact-report/

05/12/2026

📣 Join us the Dock - Centre for Social Impact this Thursday in Victoria for an evening of connection, conversation, and storytelling with Future of Good.

This gathering brings together Future of Good readers, nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community builders to meet each other, share what they’re working on, and get a clearer sense of the work happening across the sector. The event will begin with a short talk from Anouk Bertner, Executive Director of Future of Good, on the importance of storytelling in this work, how to talk about what you’re doing, why it matters, and how to step into your own voice and perspective. From there, we’ll move into some light, structured networking to support conversation and connection.

👉 Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-good-whats-your-story-tickets-1987661988514

05/12/2026

Check out this 3-part blog series with Imagine Canada, exploring pathways to financial resilience for non-profits. Each post provides new thinking about how organizations can approach funding, revenue, and capital in ways that build sustainability over time.

Over the last few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Imagine Canada on a three-part blog series that reflects the journey toward financial resilience for non-profits navigating today’s shifting economic and political landscape.

At Thriving Non-Profits, we offer journey of learning, support, and investment to help organizations move from funding dependence to financial resilience. This series brings that journey to life across three posts:

1️⃣ Part 1: Rethinking the Role of Grants - challenges us to rethink the role of traditional funding, like grants, not as the end goal, but as a starting point to build from.

2️⃣ Part 2: Earned Revenue – From Idea to Action - explores how to introduce, test, and implement earned revenue strategies in a practical way, unlocking the unrestricted revenue needed to stabilize and grow your programs, team, and impact.

3️⃣ Part 3: Investment Readiness and Access to Capital - looks at investment readiness and how organizations can access new forms of capital to bring impactful ideas to life and acquire long-term assets that strengthen financial stability while advancing your mission.

👉 If you’re ready to think differently about how your organization is funded and what’s possible, start with here with Part 1: Rethinking the Role of Grants: https://imaginecanada.ca/en/360/strengthening-your-nonprofits-financial-foundation-3-part-series

05/11/2026

📣 Impact Guarantee is seeking expressions of interest to join its Governance Committee. The Governance Committee provides strategic oversight and ensures the program remains aligned with its mission and purpose.

Impact Guarantee is a national, sector-led initiative working to strengthen Canada’s social finance ecosystem by increasing access to capital for underserved communities. We are seeking individuals with experience in social finance, governance, public policy, or ecosystem development, including SFI representatives, funders, and individuals with lived experience of barriers to capital.

Committee participation requires a time commitment of approximately nine meetings per year (two hours each). Honorariums are available.

👉 Learn more: https://impactguarantee.ca/2026/05/08/governance-committee/

05/08/2026

🚀 We’re hiring for a Program Coordinator to support the launch of Impact Guarantee, a national, sector-led initiative designed to strengthen and grow Canada’s social finance sector.

The role sits at the intersection of program delivery, stakeholder engagement, and communications, working with social finance intermediaries, funders, guarantors, and government partners across the country.

This is a great fit for someone who enjoys coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, brings strong organizational and communication skills, and is passionate about social finance, community investment, and systems change.

Impact Guarantee is an initiative led by Scale Institute Society and 10C Shared Space
and supported by Boann Social Impact and Definity Foundation, working together to build stronger, more inclusive financial infrastructure across Canada.

👉 Access the full job description and apply here by May 29: https://secure.collage.co/jobs/scale/62167

05/08/2026

📣 Early bird tickets are on sale for Connect Money Impact 2026! Join us on June 23 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo, British Columbia for a one-day gathering for social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and ecosystem builders working toward stronger, more resilient communities.

This is a space for inspiration, collaborative learning, and relationship-building with others, rethinking how capital, community, and business can work together to support greater positive impact towards community wealth, food systems, climate, and more.

The day brings together people who are working to mobilize their capital for good and those who are raising capital to do good.

Connect Money Impact is brought to you by Scale Institute. Thank you to Momentum Partners: ACET, Coastal Community Credit Union, Nanaimo Foundation, NanaimoProsperityCorporation, Thrive Impact Fund, and Organizing Partners: Community Futures Central Vancouver Island, GrowthWorks, and The Vancouver Island Economic Alliance.

👉 Early bird tickets are now available, but don’t wait too long, as they’re limited and the discount ends on June 1st. Visit https://connectmoneyimpact.ca/ to get yours!

04/10/2026

We’re pleased to share the Thrive Impact Fund 2025 Impact Report. 🙌 Thrive continues to mobilize our resources into good projects and support entrepreneurs stepping up to help solve some of the big challenges.
This year, Thrive:

✅ Deployed $3.13M into impact organizations across British Columbia
✅ Reached $5.3M total deployed capital since inception
✅ Grew to 23 portfolio organizations, with 15 active investees

These investments are supporting work in climate resilience, food security, local media, clean technology, and social equity.

Across our portfolio, we continue to see that access to the right kind of capital matters. Many organizations still face barriers to financing, whether due to structure, timing, or lack of collateral. Thrive’s role is to provide flexible, patient capital that aligns with how these organizations actually operate and grow.

This report reflects that approach in action: deploying the right capital at the right time, and with the right support, to help the organizations and changemakers working hard to strengthen our communities.

👉 Read the full report: https://thriveimpactfund.ca/thrive-impact-fund-2025-impact-report