Raising capital with Tapestry
Tapestry supports organizations through planning, raising, and managing community bonds. See how community bonds work in practice.
Get an inside look at the community bond process. Learn what makes a successful raise and how community support grows along the way.
The process
See how organizations move from early planning to a successful raise and long-term investor stewardship, with support from Tapestry at every step.
Learn
The first step is to make sure you understand how community bond financing works. Access Tapestry’s free knowledge bank, read about what makes a raise successful, and discuss with your team and board.
If you’re looking for more guided support, participate in our optional Community Capital Readiness Program. This two-month program helps you create a financial model for your project, map out who your unique community of investors might be, get clear on the capacity your team needs to raise, and expand your financing toolkit—whether or not you decide to raise right away.
Plan and structure
Dive into planning your community bond raise and structuring your investment offerings. Solidify your project’s financial model and design bond terms that match your projected cash flow. Consult your community of potential investors to understand what bond terms and impact milestones they’d find most motivating. Create an offering package to help your investors assess the opportunity—including a business plan, offering statement, term sheet, and trust agreement. Craft innovative marketing and sales plans that’ll get the word out about your raise. All with Tapestry’s guidance.
Raise
Here’s the really fun part—put your bonds on sale, connect with your community, and share your investment offerings! Set your sales and marketing plans into motion, both online and off, and see your base of supporters grow.
Use our specialized digital platform to analyze trends in bond sales and pivot team’s marketing and sales efforts as needed, in real time. Tapestry’s campaigns team is ready in the background with advice and guidance.
Meanwhile, our investment services team makes sure investments are processed through our digital system and bond certificates are sent out to investors.
Manage
For the lifetime of your bonds—we typically see maturity dates between three and five years—our team handles all the admin, sending out interest payments and tax slips to your investors.
We can also help you plan reinvestment campaigns as your bonds approach maturity. Many investors are interested in reinvesting in a new project and keeping their money invested in impact for another term. If you see community bonds as a long-term financing strategy for your organization, investors’ appetite can match it and we can help you get there.
“I’m not some big-shot investor, but it’s important for me to put my money somewhere that aligns with my values. Even when banks have things branded as ethical investments, I don’t particularly trust that my view of what’s ethical is the same as theirs.”
Lee
Community bond investor
“Community impact investing allows people to be part of the solution. And people want to be part of the solution.”
Michelle Hurtubise, Executive DirectorCentretown Community Health Centre
Executive Director
“We’re building a $17 million housing project from scratch in a neighbourhood that’s underserved. We’re meeting the needs. We’re creating wealth for people who don’t have a lot of power—and it’s collective wealth.”
Faiz Abhuani
Founder and Director
Community bond issuer Brique par brique
