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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In fewer than 70 days, community finance funders, community wealth and community economic development practitioners, enabling intermediaries and policy champions will gather in Winnipeg for the second biennial Catalyst Summit. Fifty tickets remain! Register today to join us: lnkd.in/gU2Uk4Ub

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Don't miss the chance to join Naomi Gichungu at the Catalyst Community Finance Summit. Find out more and register here: lnkd.in/gU2Uk4Ub #communityfinance #communityfirst

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Don't miss the chance to join Robin Wisener at the Catalyst Community Finance Summit. Find out more and register here: lnkd.in/gU2Uk4Ub #communityfinance #communityfirst

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Catalyst Community Finance Summit celebrates and connects leaders working on place-based and identity-based finance and just community spaces. Don’t miss this chance to connect in the heart of Winnipeg for this inspiring gathering. catalystcommunityfinance.ca/catalyst-com... #CatalystSummit2026

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Don’t just attend the Catalyst Summit — be the reason people remember it! Doers, dreamers, and disruptors from every corner of the community finance field, submit your session ideas to inspire action and deepen impact. Applications close at year end. Fill out the Typeform here lnkd.in/gYxnfuTT

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Catalyst Community Finance Summit 2026 puts you at the centre. 🟡 Everyone is an expert. 🟥 No panels. 🟣 Circle dialogue formats 🎡 Field Festival sessions hosted by the community. Grow your connections during our networking events. Register today to join us in the circle. lnkd.in/gU2Uk4Ub

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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...

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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 · 02/07/2025

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...

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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 · 20/05/2025

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...

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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 · 29/04/2025

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...

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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 · 26/02/2025

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...

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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 · 14/02/2025

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

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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 · 13/02/2025

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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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...

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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 · 03/02/2025

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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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...

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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 · 31/01/2025

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

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<span>Help Build the Movement</span>

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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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 · 31/01/2025

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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#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.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#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 · 30/01/2025

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

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‘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 · 30/01/2025

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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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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 · 30/01/2025

#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.

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#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;

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#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

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#TPSIC2025 talking challenges to digital resilience for nonprofits: 1. Interaction right now is between public and private but investment not on the table for nonprofits yet 2. Charitable sector is dominated by small charities and nps.; how are they building infrastructures that can support privacy?

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sad we could only make one sesssion at #TPSIC2025 today, but just tuning into Digital Resilience for Nonprofits. What have people heard today!?

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We won't be able to follow as much tomorrow (Thursday) at the #TPSIC2025 People's Social Impact Conference but we'll do our best! We will look forward to catching up with your insights too!

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Next at #TPSIC2025 Future of Employee Ownership Talking challenges first: 1. Lack of advisor knowledge 2. Getting more to majority employee owned 3. Broadly, very constrained idea of what businesses are; people don't understand co-ops; huge financial literacy gap 4. Build an ecosystem of support

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks to a great #CommunityWealthBuilding panel - lots of insights. As this community grows, we want to be sure the magic is captured. Stay in touch over the next 5 days #TPSIC2025 Big props to www.setsi.ca for hosting. Remember you can register for free here: tpsic.ca

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

More challenges and actions #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Ensure more voices heard, centre different economic and autonomous systems 2. Push back against assimilation 3. Focus on financial healing; history of economic exclusion; 4. Tap into Ancestral knowledge 5. Stay intentional re: DEI #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Challenges & Actions #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Financing for capacity building over long term 2. Need more people on the financing side 3. Power held and fear of risk; overcoming this 4. Supply and demand: build supply 5. Better communication 6. Anchor institutions must lead #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Next 5 yrs opportunities for #CommunityWealthBuilding cont... 1. Thinking about how non-Indigenous community can support too; how to build on #LandBack settlements 2. Moving settlement dollars into community investment 3. more shared learning eg. w/ Catalyst CF #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Near future of #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. Looking beyond city hubs to local leadership 2. Greater understanding of the need to build the pipeline to investment 3. Building place-based funds (thx for the shout-out MJ) 4. Build on land settlements to Indigenous communities; cont... #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We need ideas! We need organizing. We can create parallel structures for economic development. Start to shift flows of capital to community. (Audrey Jamal, University of Guelph) #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

cont... strategies for #CommunityWealthBuilding 1. On income side: access to experience for immigrants, supporting bold ideas eg. Raven Indigenous Impact Fund; Thinking about risk vs. perception of risk; 2. From university: teaching different models of ownership, building new knowledges #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Key strategies for #CommunityWealthBuilding includes: 1. ecosystem approaches 2. for Indigenous people, starts with Indigenous ways of doing and being; realigning wealth from an Indigenous POV. 3. access to land, resources, and free capital; not borrowed capital; more to come #TPSIC2025

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wondering if anyone here is watching the People's Social Impact Conference #TPSIC2025 today? I've just joined the #CommunityWealthBuilding panel to listen in. Hoping to share insights here if there's energy :) If you haven't seen the lineup go here: tpsic.ca 5 days of free programming starting today

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Catalyst Community Finance @catalystcommfin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Join us at our first Catalyst meet-up of the year where we'll discuss together the kinds of supports, peer-spaces and resources we can facilitate for you over the coming year. Register at the link below to get the details #communityfinance #canada #community

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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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