Unlocking Capital: The Economic Case for Community Finance in Canada

In this first-of-its-kind in-depth economic research report, author Simon Marmura Brown, PhD clearly articulates that community finance helps close the access to capital gap: the investment gap that prevents enterprise development and community projects led predominantly by women, Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs and rural communities.

Community finance is practical economic infrastructure that connects capital to community opportunity.

The economic case is clarion: when capital reaches communities, it multiplies.