Tapestry is excited to welcome Nicholas Cardelli to the team! Nicholas will work as a campaign coordinator, working directly with nonprofits and cooperatives across the country to raise community bonds.
With both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in international development, Nicholas brings a deep understanding of charitable and nonprofit funding models.
Nicholas comes to the world of community finance with diverse experience, most recently working in customer care for a U.S.-based mobile veterinary service, and before that managing an English testing centre for immigration in London, Ontario.
Nicholas is excited to work in the community finance sector and appreciates Tapestry’s focus on both ground-level impact and systemic change. “If we can help communities look inward for funding and support, we can help a lot of people,” he says. “I’m really passionate about that. The scope of impact is very much increased for what I can do in my limited time on this earth.”
In his spare time, Nicholas volunteers as a board member for Growing Chefs! Ontario — a nonprofit that provides programming to schools, families, and children on food systems and food
literacy in London, Ontario. He’s passionate about sustainable food in general, spending much of his time outside of work gardening (he has a small vineyard in his backyard!) and hunting. One of Nicholas’s long-term goals is to have a sustainable food forest garden right outside his doorstep.
We hope you’ll have the chance to work with Nicholas soon. If you’d like to get in touch, you can reach him at nicholas@tapestrycapital.ca. Welcome, Nicholas!
“I believe in a future where profits are returned to supporters rather than banks, and where investors can feel proud that they put their money in something that they believe in. To me, ‘co-operation in the world of tomorrow’ means communities coming together to support a common goal and jointly investing the capital it will take to realize that vision.”
“A Co-operative offers it’s members a concrete way to contribute to our inter-dependent reality; one where bridges replace walls. At Tapestry, when I see a cool Co-operative in action – one with shameless idealism and a strong collective resolve – I feel alive.” 
“I imagine a world where problems, such as climate change, homelessness and poverty, are not shrugged off due to profit’s bottom line. I see inclusive communities whose inhabitants, both human and non-human, flourish with home-fullness, vibrant public and active transportation, and an economy based on the health of the planet. 
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