Begin your community bond journey.
Next Intake: June 2-June 27, 2025
Fill out the form below to join the waitlist!
What is the intake program?
Our Spring intake is now closed – you can fill out the form below to join the waitlist for Summer!
The intake program is the first step in the Planning & Feasibility phase of our process. Over the course of 2.5 months, we’ll work with non-profits, charities, and co-operatives to determine if raising capital through community bonds is a good fit for your project. During this process, we’ll help you with:
- Understanding how your organization would use the bond funds
- Developing a financial model that supports community capital
- Exploring potential bond terms
- Conducting community consultations to determine investors’ appetite and garner early community support for your project
By the end of the process, 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.
In the past, we worked with organizations on an ongoing basis. Now, with our new quarterly intake periods, we’ve made the process more structured and streamlined for organizations. Plus, this new approach helps make things more manageable for our Campaigns team too!
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 feasibility and attend a meet & greet session with our campaigns team.
Program benefits
Peer to peer learning
Access Tapestry’s peer to peer learning circle and be mentored by other organizations that 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 the long term sustainability of the organization.
Community insights
The community consultations will give you a better understanding on 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 hourly check-ins.
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.
Pricing
$5,000 + tax
The cost of the feasibility study is $5,000. This has always been our price, and in the spirit of transparency, we’re now sharing it more explicitly. You can earn up to a $5,000 credit towards structuring the bond if you complete all exercises within 2.5 months as planned. The $5,000 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!).
To clarify: You don’t pay the $5,000 upfront when submitting the intake form.
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. Our intake program is designed for organizations that:
- Are an incorporated nonprofit, charity, or co-operative in Canada.
- Have a well-defined project and clear use of proceeds.
- Are raising a minimum of $1 million in community bonds.
- Need to start raising capital in the next 8-12 months.
- Have an existing community of support.
- 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 Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Newfoundland & Labrador, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
If this sounds like your organization, get in touch via the form and see how we can help you with your community bond raise. Apply now to join the waitlist for our Summer intake!