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The Impact Index Knowledge Centre offers insights, news, video channels, education programs, resources, market maps, and community knowledge sharing networks focused on impact investing in Canada.
This is an aggregated resource centre with contributions from partners across the sector. It is designed for curious and active impact investors, funds, entrepreneurs, NGOs and policy leaders. This is a beta version with feedback and recommendations welcome from partners.
Some links within this repository may redirect you to external websites that are not affiliated with SVX. These external resources are provided for convenience and informational purposes only. SVX is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or security of these third-party sites.
Canadian Market Insights
2026 Q3 Market Digest
Quarterly round-up of impact investing market news relevant to Canadians for 2026 Q3. Read more
State of Community Finance in Canada
SVX releases a report identifying 768 community finance institutions representing $771 billion in total assets, including $7.3 billion in assets under management. Read more
The Economic Case for Community Finance in Canada
This first-of-its-kind in-depth economic research report articulates that community finance helps close the access to capital gap. Read more
2026 Q2 Market Digest
Quarterly round-up of impact investing market news relevant to Canadians for 2026 Q2. Read more
2026 Q1 Market Digest
Quarterly round-up of impact investing market news relevant to Canadians for 2026 Q1. Read more
Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report 2026
The Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report provides a snapshot of the Canadian impact investing landscape, exploring market size, financial performance, and more. Read more
Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report 2025
The Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report is Canada’s only report on the scope, scale, impact and financial performance of impact investing products. Read more
Weekly Impact Investing Roundup
Lars Boggild shares weekly updates featuring jobs, opportunities, news, and events on impact investing in Canada.
CAFIID State of the Sector 2025
CAFIID’s State of the Sector Reports track the evolution of Canada’s impact investing in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
News
Video Channels
Check out video channels from leading organizations and podcasts on impact investing and social finance in Canada.
SETSI
Education Programs
Learn about impact investing in Canada with a set of online programs and educational program archives:
Active Programs
Impact United Academy Programs
Impact United Academy is an education hub providing resources and peer-to-peer learning to guide individual and institutional investors. Check out their active educational programs for target investor types like foundations and target thematics like systemic investing or climate action.
Community Real Estate Program
Partnership between SVX and United Way Greater Toronto (UWGT) providing a special capacity-building program designed to support non-profit organizations seeking to acquire, develop, and finance community real estate projects. The program includes 22 dedicated learning modules plus one-on-one coaching for high impact, high potential organizations. This program is available on Thinkific.
MaRS Start-up Toolkit
MaRS helps Canada’s most promising founders build successful companies, including impact entrepreneurs. Explore advice, lessons and tips from their community of entrepreneurs and operators.
Archive Programs
SVX Launchpad: Ready for Investment Program
Launchpad: Ready for Investment is a blended learning, peer to peer engagement program designed to help women entrepreneurs in Ontario strengthen their investment readiness, deepen their impact competencies, and apply gender-lens tools in real business contexts.
SVX FundCircle: Impact & Gender Lens Program
FundCircle: Impact & Gender Lens Track is a community-centered program designed for women and non-binary fund managers who are building, launching, or strengthening an impact investment fund.
Towards 2025
The Towards Accelerator is a capacity-building program providing technical knowledge, advice, visibility to investors, and peer support for community finance intermediaries seeking to drive positive social and environmental impact in their communities through lending and investing.
Beyond the Basics of Climate Investing
This workshop demystifies the role of taxonomies and transition plans in the evolving sustainable finance landscape. Participants explore how these tools improve market clarity, reduce greenwashing risks, and support credible decarbonization pathways across sectors.
Towards 100% Impact Investing
A 100% impact portfolio is an approach to investing that activates the total portfolio for positive social and environmental impact across all asset classes. Two leading practitioners share how they’ve accomplished this with their Foundations and how you too can develop a plan to do the same.
Rethinking Food, Finance and the Future
This session unpacks why a systems-level view is essential for scaling regenerative impact—and how investors can think holistically to support transformation across the entire food ecosystem.
Systemic Investing and Philanthropic Capital
Explore the unique role for philanthropic capital to act as catalytic “first mover” in driving systemic investing.
Gender Lens Investing 101 Program
Get started on your Gender Lens Investing (GLI) journey with our free self-paced introductory virtual course, Gender Lens Investing 101, designed for all Canadian accredited investors who are eager to begin or advance their understanding of GLI principles.
Resource Repository
| Title | Source | Type | Audience | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Capital: The Economic Case for Community Finance in Canada | Catalyst Community Finance | Report | All | 2026 | |
| Community Finance in Canada | SVX | Report | All | 2026 | |
| Market Report — Deep Dive: Community Finance in Canada (July 2026) | SVX | Report | All | 2026 | |
| Canadian Community Finance Intermediary Market Map | SVX | Tool | All | 2026 | |
| 2026 Canadian Impact Investing Market Report | SVX | Case Study | All | 2026 | |
| Optimizing returns: Farmers advancing impact and profitability through water stewardship in Manitoba | Canada's Nature Advantage | Case Study | All | 2025 | |
| Projects for permanence and prosperity: Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii, BC | Canada's Nature Advantage | Case Study | All | 2025 | |
| Poll on Canadian attitudes towards a national nature-positive economic strategy | Canada's Nature Advantage | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report | SVX | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Impact bonds: Three important conversations | Nature Investment Hub | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Biodiversity Credits in Canada: Why trust, clear rules, and Indigenous leadership are critical | Nature Investment Hub | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Beyond the Pitch: How Multiple Forms of Capital Are Shaping Canada’s Nature-Finance Market | Nature Investment Hub | Report | All | 2025 | |
| University Case Challenges: Select sustainability related case challenges at Canadian Universities | UVic Impact Investing Hub | Database | All | 2022 | |
| BC Accelerators and Incubators Database: Harnessing the power of incubators and accelerators to create impact-ready startups | UVic Impact Investing Hub | Database | Entrepreneurs | 2022 | |
| Glossary: Clarifying terminology in the world of impact investing and sustainable finance | UVic Impact Investing Hub | Toolkit | All | 2025 | |
| Bridging the gap: The urgent need for experiential learning in sustainable finance and impact investing | UVic Impact Investing Hub | Database | All | 2022 | |
| ESG and Impact Standards, Frameworks, and Initiatives | UVic Impact Investing Hub | Toolkit | All | 2023 | |
| State of the Sector Report 2025: Scaling Canada’s Impact Investing in Emerging Markets & Developing Economies | CAFIID | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Empowering Municipal Climate Action | MaRS | Report | 2025 | ||
| Clearing the air: How Canada can be a global leader in carbon removal | MaRS | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Policy Brief: Protect Ontario Through a Local Investment Strategy | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Policy | Government | 2025 | |
| Bridging Gaps: Exploring opportunities to connect capital with affordable housing | SVX | Report | NGOs | 2022 | |
| Blended Finance for Impact: Toolkit for Social Finance & Supportive Housing | SVX | Toolkit | NGOs | 2013 | |
| Place-Based Impact Investing: Catalyzing women-led enterprises in Ontario’s COVID recovery | SVX | Report | Investors | 2021 | |
| Five must read resources on place-based impact investing | SVX | Report | Investors | 2021 | |
| Five Ways to Catalyze Community Capital in Ontario | SVX | Report | Investors | 2021 | |
| Place-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners | Mission Investors Exchange | Tool | Investors | 2021 | |
| Impact Investing and Donor-Advised Funds in Canada (Full Report) | Impact United Academy | Report | Investors | 2025 | |
| Taking Steps: Addressing Capital Needs for Indigenous-led Enterprises | Impact United Academy | Report | Government | 2023 | |
| Pathways Forward: Advancing Access to Private Equity for Indigenous Entrepreneurs | Impact United Academy | Report | Investors | 2023 | |
| Why community capital institutions could be the key to recovery | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | All | 2022 | |
| How experts are dismantling colonial approaches to business and housing | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | All | 2024 | |
| Four experts share secrets to scaling community finance without tension | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | All | 2024 | |
| Community Finance Explainer | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | All | 2024 | |
| Catalyst Community Finance Initiative Stakeholder Engagement Report | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | Intermediaries | 2022 | |
| Catalyst Community Finance Initiative Ecosystem Convening Summary | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | Intermediaries | 2022 | |
| Submission for Pre-Budget 2025 Consultations | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Policy | Government | 2024 | |
| The world of community finance through my eyes: Reflections from an Impact Analyst | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Report | All | 2025 | |
| Community Finance Profile: Rise | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2025 | |
| Community Finance Profile: Indwell | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2025 | |
| Community Finance Profile: Fair Finance Fund | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2025 | |
| Build Canada Through Local Investment: A National Community Finance Strategy (Pre-Budget Submission) | Catalyst: Community Finance Initiative | Policy | Government | 2025 | |
| YMCAs of Quebec: The Alternative Suspension Social Impact Bond | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| TAS: Building more inclusive and livable cities | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Peru Impact Investing Ecosystem Project | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Mission-Related Investor Collaborative | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Loretto Sisters / IVBM Canada | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Northpine Foundation | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Ursuline Sisters of Chatham | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph (CSSJ) in Canada | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Oakville Community Foundation (OCF) | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) Innovative Financing Strategy | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| Hamilton Community Foundation (HCF) | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| Entreprenorth Fund | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| Ecotierra Urapi Fund | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| CAANZero | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2024 | |
| Bloom Local Food Fund | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2022 | |
| VERGE Capital | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| Amplify Capital | SVX | Case Study | Investors | 2021 | |
| Impact Investment Accelerator | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2022 | |
| Community Connector Bond / Outcomes Financing Tool ? Social Finance for Social Inclusion Solutions Lab | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| TechSoup Direct Public Offering (DPO) | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Habitat for Humanity Halton Mississauga Dufferin ? Investment Readiness and Community Housing Bond Structuring | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Carolinian Canada Conservation Impact Bond | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| House of Friendship Bond | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Windmill Microlending | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| ImpactDAF with MakeWay | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Convergence | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| London Housing Development Corporation (HDC) | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| YWCA Elm Centre | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Manitoba Impact Investing Ecosystem Development | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Peruvian Impact Investing Ecosystem Development | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Impact United | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Catalyst: Community Capital Initiative | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| SVX US | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| SVX Mexico | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Colombian Impact Investing Ecosystem Development and SVX Colombia | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| B Lab Canada | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| SolarShare | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Pathways Forward: Advancing Access to Capital for Indigenous Entrepreneurs | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2024 | |
| WIN-VC Canada | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2024 | |
| SVX Colombia Fund Accelerator | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2023 | |
| Regenerative Recovery ? Build Back Better Challenge | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Women of Ontario Social Enterprise Network (WOSEN) | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Low Carbon Cities Canada Network ? Collaborative Impact Investing for Net Zero | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Canadian National Impact Investor Survey | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Akwesasne Nation Economic Development Corporation Community Wealth | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Social Finance Forum | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC) | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI) | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Impact8 and Impact Entrepreneur Training Programs | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| School for Social Entrepreneurs | SVX | Case Study | Intermediaries | 2021 | |
| Market Momentum: Impact Investing And High Net Worth Canadians | SVX | Report | Investors | 2018 | |
| Five Ways to Catalyze Community Capital in Ontario | SVX | Policy | Government | 2020 | |
| Five must read resources on impact investing, gender and racial equality | SVX | Tool | Investors | 2020 | |
| Five must read resources on impact investing, sustainable food systems and climate action | SVX | Tool | Investors | 2020 | |
| Five must read resources on place-based impact investing | SVX | Tool | Investors | 2020 | |
| Six Lessons from Impact Investors: Highlights of All-in Impact Gathering 2020 | SVX | Report | Investors | 2020 | |
| Place-Based Impact Investing: Catalyzing women-led enterprises in Ontario’s COVID recovery | SVX | Case Study | Entrepreneurs | 2021 | |
| 2021 Annual Canadian Impact Investors Survey Report | SVX | Report | Investors | 2021 | |
| Gender Lens Investing Primer: An Introduction to Gender Lens Investing and Market Trends | SVX | Tool | Investors | 2022 | |
| How Canada Can Advance A Global Agenda: Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming Federal Budget | SVX | Policy | Government | 2025 | |
| Impact Blueprint for Canada’s Global Agenda | SVX | Policy | Government | 2025 | |
| A Bold National Community Finance Strategy: Pre-Budget Submission in Advance of the Upcoming Federal Budget Fall 2025 | SVX | Policy | Government | 2025 | |
| Canadian Impact Investing Market Performance Report 2025 | SVX | Report | Investors | 2025 |
Market Maps
Check out interactive and static maps of the impact investing market in Canada:
Canadian Impact Investing Products Map
Author: SVX | Created: 2026
This map provides an overview of impact investing products across Canada, including managed products, trusts, term deposits, loan funds, and more.
Canadian Community Finance Intermediary Market Map
Author: SVX | Created: 2026
This map provides an overview of community finance institutions in Canada, including credit unions, community loan funds, community futures organizations, Indigenous Financial Institutions, community land trusts, community bond issuers, and other place-based community finance products.
Canada Impact Investing Ecosystem Map
Author: SVX | Created: 2025
Market map of impact investing ecosystem in Canada developed by SVX and supported by the McConnell Foundation.
Dynamic Regenerative Food Systems Investment Map
Author: SVX | Created: 2025
This map visualizes the regenerative investing ecosystem for food systems in Canada, identifying key actors, capital flows, and gaps across the landscape. It is designed as a public resource to illuminate where capital is flowing and to catalyze more efficient, coordinated, and regenerative investment throughout the sector.
Knowledge Sharing Networks
Catalyst Mighty Networks
Online community for Catalyst Community Finance Network. This network includes the Towards Accelerator program recordings and resources and access to a toolkit of resources including background on community finance, fund formation documents like investment policies, tools for raising capital like term sheets and subscription agreements, and documents for your fund like general security agreements and template loan agreements.
Impact United Academy
Impact United Academy was established as an independent charitable organization to focus on stewarding and supporting this national community of individual and institutional investors and asset owners who are committed to building knowledge, sharing resources, and advancing collaborative action. Our mission is to mobilize all forms of capital for systemic change and transformative impact by convening, educating, and empowering investors through peer learning, research, and thought leadership.
Canada Forum for Impact Investment and Development (CAFIID)
Canada Forum for Impact Investment and Development (CAFIID) is a community of individuals, organizations and investors who treat positive social and environmental impact and financial return as coexisting priorities. CAFIID members combine many years of collaboration and engagement with a track record of innovation in structuring and funding impact investment products, designing and delivering technical assistance, and promoting sustainable investment ecosystems in emerging and frontier economies.
The Table of Impact Investment Practitioners
The Table of Impact Investment Practitioners (TIIP) is Canada’s network for impact investment fund managers and intermediaries. Our members include impact-investment funds, community lenders, and mission-driven investors deploying capital for public good, working together to strengthen the practice and impact of social finance across the country.
Events
RIA Conference 2026
RIA Conference 2026
RIA Conference 2026
Policy & Budget Submissions
Canada's Nature Advantage: Five Building Blocks to Scale Private Investment in Nature Positive Working Landscapes
Author: Canada’s Nature Advantage | Created: 2026
Canada’s natural assets are foundational to economic security and long-term prosperity. Drawing on research and engagement across sectors, this submission identifies five building blocks.
Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds: 2026 Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
Author: Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds | Created: 2026
The Government of Canada has demonstrated a clear commitment to investing in initiatives that deliver meaningful results for Canadians, including efforts to attract public and private capital to priority areas. To build on this momentum and improve the effectiveness of these investments, Raven Indigenous Outcomes proposes three recommendations.
Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing: 2026 Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
Author: Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing | Created: 2026
The federal government is spending billions of dollars on new transit across the country,
recognizing its importance in creating connected, prosperous, sustainable communities. But all too often, new transit infrastructure exacerbates housing unaffordability, displacing the very people it was meant to serve. Who’s minding the gap?
Urban Climate Leadership: 2026 Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
Author: Makeway | Created: 2026
Urban Climate Leadership (UCL), a project of MakeWay, submits this brief to inform Budget 2026 and support the development of a competitive, climate-aligned Canadian economy. This Pre-Budget Submission highlights three areas where national support can make a meaningful difference: retrofitting existing buildings, AI data centres, and clean transportation.
Policy Brief: Why the Social Finance Fund Needs to Deploy More Catalytic Capital
Author: SVX | Created: 2026
Across the country, there is a renewed focus on building Canadian strength, resilience, productivity, domestic supply chains, housing, food security, infrastructure, Indigenous economic reconciliation, and economic sovereignty.
The Social Finance Fund can (and should) be part of that agenda.
Policy Brief: Local, Efficient, Public: A New Municipal Development Bank for Canada?
Author: McMaster, Public Banking Project | Created: 2026
This policy brief explores the idea of a
new public Municipal Development Bank
or system of banks in Canada.
Partners
