Begin your community bond journey.
Intake period: September 1–October 1, 2025
Program start: October 6, 2025
Fill out the form below to join the cohort!
What is the Cohort?
This cohort-based program is the first step in raising community bonds supported by Tapestry. Over the course of 2.5 months, you’ll work alongside other non-profits, charities, and co-operatives to determine if community bond financing is a good fit for your project.
During this process, we’ll help you:
- Understand how your organization would use the bond funds
- Develop a financial model that supports community capital
- Explore potential bond terms
- Conduct community consultations to determine investors’ appetite and garner early community support for your project
By the end of the program, you’ll be well-equipped to decide whether your community bond raise is feasible and if you’d like to move forward with structuring your bond raise with Tapestry’s support.
Program benefits
Peer to peer learning
Learn alongside your fellow cohort members and from organizations who have gone through our process and successfully raised capital.
Clear financial picture
The financial modelling exercises will help you determine the level of debt that you can take on and encourage you to build in diversified revenue streams to ensure your organization’s long-term sustainability.
Community insights
The community consultations will help you understand the level of engagement from your supporter base and your ability to convert social capital into financial capital for your project.
Project management
The feasibility study will take place over the course of 2.5 months with clear milestones and bi-weekly check-in meetings.
Access to Tapestry templates
We’ll provide templates and examples of materials from other successful campaigns, and share best practises to ensure your study is an insightful experience.
Funding support
Earn fee discounts for meeting key milestones.
How to apply
- Review the eligibility criteria below.
- Submit the intake form.
- We’ll reach out via email to set up a discovery call to learn more.
- After the call, you’ll complete a detailed assessment form to evaluate your project’s eligibility and attend a meet & greet session with the team who’ll support participants through the program.
Pricing
$5,500 + tax
The cost of the 2.5 month program is $5,500. Should you decide to move forward with a community bond raise after the program, you can earn up to a $5,500 credit towards structuring your bonds if you complete all feasibility exercises within 2.5 months as planned.
The $5,500 fee is at cost for Tapestry and we intentionally keep our cost low in this stage to make it accessible for all organizations to apply (we’re a non-profit too!).
Note: An application is not a commitment to join the program or pay the fee.
Who should apply?
We work with non-profits, charities, and co-operatives that are ready to use community investment to bring their projects to life. This cohort, we have six spots available for organizations who:
- Are an incorporated nonprofit, charity, or co-operative in Canada
- Have a well-defined project and clear use of proceeds
- Are interested in raising a minimum of $3 million in community bonds (Note: We’ve reserved one spot for smaller campaigns by grassroots or newer organizations — don’t hesitate to apply if your financing needs are below $3 million!)
- Need to start raising capital in the next 8-12 months
- Have an existing community of supporters (donors, volunteers, etc.)
- Have a dedicated project team of at least 3 people (staff, volunteers, board members, etc.) with skills in project management, finance, and communications
Please note that priority will be given to projects that serve equity-deserving groups. This includes, but is not limited to, Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, newcomers and refugees, persons with disabilities, women, gender minorities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Priority will also be given to organizations in areas of the country so far underserved by community bond financing: Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Newfoundland & Labrador, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.