Affordable Housing
Kensington Market Community Land Trust
Kensington Community Bonds
Kensington Market Community Land Trust is raising up to $2 million to preserve affordable housing and commercial rent for local businesses.
Affordable Housing
Indwell
Home & Homes Hamilton Bonds
Indwell is raising $5 million to build more affordable housing in Hamilton, Ontario.
Affordable Housing
Propolis Housing Cooperative
Bee the change
Propolis is raising $1.1 million to acquire a land parcel in Kamloops, BC, where they will construct a mixed-use building with 50 affordable and green co-operative homes.
Sustainability
Solarshare
Power your portfolio with the Sun
SolarShare is raising up to $15 million to refinance their portfolio of 51 solar energy installations across Ontario.
Sustainability
Sustainable Capacity Foundation & Greening Sacred Spaces Ottawa
Faithfully Green Fund
The Faithfully Green Fund is raising $1 million in community bonds to provide faith-based organizations in Ottawa with financing for sustainability retrofit projects.
Past Projects
Places For People
Transforming lives by creating homes
Places for People refinanced their portfolio of affordable housing units so they are positioned to undertake more, larger developments that are environmentally sustainable.
| Category: | Affordable Housing |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2023 |
| Amount Raised: | $850,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 70 |
SolarShare
Power your portfolio with the sun
SolarShare has continuously issued Community Bonds since 2010 to refinance their portfolio of 51 solar energy installations across Ontario.
| Category: | Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2010-present |
| Amount Raised: | $80,000,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 2000+ |
Trillium Waldorf School
Trillium rising: a bold plan for a bright future
The Trillium Waldorf school acquired their school property and building, allowing them to become more financially sustainable and better meet the needs of their students and families.
| Category: | Education |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2022 |
| Amount Raised: | $1,004,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 91 |
Kingsway College School
Join the journey
Kingsway College School purchased a 40,000 sq ft property in downtown Toronto and constructed the Senior School campus that their community had always dreamed of.
| Category: | Education |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2021-22 |
| Amount Raised: | $2,690,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 104 |
Earth Day Canada (Jour de la Terre)
EcoCharge
Earth Day Canada (Jour de la Terre) constructed a network of 100 fast-charging stations across New Brunswick and Quebec, ensuring that the infrastructure needed for the transition to electric vehicles is available and democratically owned.
| Category: | Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2021-22 |
| Amount Raised: | $1,103,500 |
| Number of Investors: | 130 |
Centre for Social Innovation
Invest in the people, places, and programs that put people and planet first
Community investment allowed the Centre for Social Innovation to acquire their first two buildings in downtown Toronto, and has since allowed the organization to invest in programming to support the growth of the ‘Next Economy’.
| Category: | Co-working & Social Innovation |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2010-present |
| Amount Raised: | $14,200,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 341 |
SKETCH Working Arts
Project Home
After years of moving, in attempts to balance their growing need for more space with Toronto’s soaring real estate prices, SKETCH Working Arts secured their forever home – a 9,000 sq ft art studio and admin space.
| Category: | Arts & Leadership |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2020-21 |
| Amount Raised: | $1,400,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 104 |
Argonaut Rowing Club
ARC Next
The Argonaut Rowing Club transformed their club facilities and event venue, which were severely damaged by flooding, into a fully accessible space with increased capacity for new membership, programming, and revenue generation.
| Category: | Sports & Recreation |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2019 |
| Amount Raised: | $1,200,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 90 |
WindShare
Better energy future, together
Windshare Cooperative pioneered community wind power in Canada and developed and built the first urban wind project in North America.
| Category: | Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2002 |
| Amount Raised: | $918,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 419 |
ZooShare
Poo. Power. Profits.
ZooShare constructed Canada’s first zoo-based biogas plant that turns waste (commercial food waste and zoo poo) into clean energy. The plant diverts 15,000 tons of food waste from landfill each year, while also reducing CO2 emissions.
| Category: | Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Year(s): | 2013-2021 |
| Amount Raised: | $7,000,000 |
| Number of Investors: | 800 |