Transformative Systems Change.
You’re passionate about driving positive change in our community. So are we.
We’re a Certified B Corporation
Many organizations will tell you they do good, but few can actually prove it.
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Certified b corps in Canada
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Our 2021 B Impact Score
An average business scores 50.9 on their B Impact Assessment. We scored 124 on our Assessment, ranking us as one of the highest scoring B Corporations in Canada. When you work with a B Corporation, you can trust that you’re partnering with a credible organization that is using their business to make our community better.
We’d like to help you strengthen and elevate your social impact.
How can we support your organization?
Program Evaluation & Development
Through community-based research, we can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing programs or provide hands-on support with the development of new programs.
Capacity Building
From creating new reporting tools to collaborative grant writing to policy development, we support your nonprofit with community-informed capacity-building projects.
Sustainable Revenue
We offer an end-to-end partnership to diversify revenue by researching, branding, and launching social enterprise projects for your nonprofit and charity.
Strategic Planning
We have extensive experience in multi-stakeholder discussions, community engagement, and leadership retreats. We offer a unique, bottom-up approach to effective strategic planning.
Case Study: Sustainable Revenue
Over a period of a year, we went through our Three Phases of Social Enterprise Development with Cambridge Shelter to launch In our Backyard.
In our Backyard: Professional Garden & Yard Services
Through an initial private foundation grant, Cambridge Shelter hired us to Research, Brand, and Launch a sustainable social enterprise that will 1) employ shelter graduates, 2) provide personal development opportunities for the shelter graduates and 3) provide undesignated revenue for Cambridge Shelter programming.
Over a period of a year, we developed In our Backyard, offering professional garden and yard services to those in the Waterloo Region while providing part and full time employment for their shelter clients. We secured over $200,000 in additional grant funding which allowed us to hire a full-time coordinator and make capital investments into the enterprise.
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