Membership Type: Nonprofit

The Canada Forum for Impact Investment and Development (CAFIID) is the leading network for Canadian professionals, organizations, and investors committed to mobilizing capital for social and environmental impact in emerging and frontier markets. With over 130 members spanning financial institutions, development finance experts, asset managers, foundations, and entrepreneurs, CAFIID is a catalyst for growing Canada’s role in global impact investing.

Through over 30 activities per year, including convenings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and collaborative field-building initiatives, CAFIID connects its members to opportunities, insights, and global best practices. Our three Communities of Practice—Gender Lens Investing, Impact Measurement and Management, and Climate Finance—create space for practitioners to deepen their expertise, co-develop solutions, and help shape the evolution of the field.

What We Do

• – Field-Building: CAFIID strengthens Canada’s impact investment sector by enhancing its global profile, building bridges between Canadian and international markets, and contributing to the development of enabling policies and investment frameworks.
• – Convening and Connecting: We create opportunities for members to meet, learn from each other, and engage in business collaboration, fostering a more cohesive and effective impact investing sector.
• – Education and Thought Leadership: Through research, publications, and knowledge-sharing platforms, CAFIID helps raise awareness, improve best practices, and enhance the impact investing ecosystem in Canada and beyond.

As an RIA member, we look forward to sharing knowledge and fostering connections between global impact investing and responsible investing communities. We welcome RIA members to connect with us, explore synergies, and join our efforts in strengthening Canada’s leadership in impact investing.

Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative) is a nonprofit organization that works to foster greater corporate accountability in the deployment and use of digital and emerging technologies. Our primary tools are investor engagement and other finance-focused strategies. We provide investors with the education, tools, and networks needed to hold tech companies accountable for the impact of their policies and practices on people’s lives and to promote values of openness, equity, privacy, and diversity—values that provide long-term benefits for individuals, companies, the economy, and democratic society.

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) is one of the most influential accounting organizations in the world. Working with the provincial, territorial and Bermudian regulatory bodies, CPA Canada supports the profession and represents Canadian CPAs at the national and international levels.

Domestically, CPA Canada acts in the public interest to promote transparency in financial markets, prepare CPAs for a rapidly evolving business environment through extensive guidance and programming, and contributes to standard setting and policy making. Globally, CPA Canada works together with international bodies to build a stronger accounting profession worldwide.

The Université de Sherbrooke Foundation’s mission is to support the development of the Université de Sherbrooke by soliciting, administering and distributing the funds raised. For more than 60 years, the Foundation has invested more than $ 240 million towards its mission.

The Corporation (Fondation de l’Université de Sherbrooke) contributes to the growth and influence of the Institution. It carries out fundraising activities in close collaboration with the management of the Institution, the faculty directorates, the other university directorates of the Institution, the department of relations with the graduates and its volunteers. The Corporation has optimal and responsible policies in managing the funds entrusted to it by the donors and the Corporation allocates the funds raised in accordance with their wishes and the priority needs identified by the Institution.

The Corporation intends to be recognized as a leader in Quebec, Canada and elsewhere in the world of university philanthropy, notably by its Vision and Values:

Vision
The Foundation is recognized as an essential contributor to the realization of university research and teaching projects with positive impacts on society. It helps strengthen the pride and commitment of students by supporting projects that enrich their campus life.
Its community and partners can count on its innovative approach and practices.

Values
• Commitment
Commitment as a lever to support the great human university that is the University of Sherbrooke. Partnership, at the heart of collaborations essential to the realization of projects at the University of Sherbrooke.

• Acknowledgement
The Foundation encourages and recognizes those who take small and large actions that have an impact on the daily life of the university community and that of society.

• Belonging and pride
Building on the sense of belonging and extraordinary pride of the UdeS Family, the Foundation contributes to promoting the innovation and creativity that characterize the University of Sherbrooke.

• Trust
The Foundation generates trust through its rigor and transparency, while responding in an exemplary manner to sound governance and integrity practices. It is committed to ethical and responsible management linked to the impact of its investments.

References:

Consult the 2021-2026 strategic planning document of the Foundation and the Alumni Relations Department : https://www.usherbrooke.ca/lafondation/fileadmin/sites/lafondation/uploads/Planification_strate__gique_Fondation_UdeS_2021_2026_VF.pdf

Consult our Responsible Investment section on our website : https://www.usherbrooke.ca/lafondation/la-fondation/investissement-responsable

Through concrete actions in terms of responsible investment, the Foundation is effectively participating in Université de Sherbrooke’s 2023-2026 responsible investment strategy: https://www.usherbrooke.ca/developpement-durable/gestion-responsable/investissement-responsable

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With a rich history dating back to 1857, the University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-focused institution with more than 17,000 students enrolled in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the faculties of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Human Kinetics, Law, Nursing, Odette School of Business and Science. UWindsor’s mission is to empower positive change through regionally and globally engaged inquiry, learning, scholarship, creative activity and advance bold and impactful research.

Tapestry Community Capital is on a mission to make investing directly in your community the norm. For over a decade, they have been instrumental in assisting social purpose organizations in Canada in raising funds through the use of community bonds, an innovative social finance tool. To date, their efforts have resulted in over $100 million being raised in community bonds, with the support of more than 4,000 community investors. These funds have been instrumental in driving forward 61 impactful projects across sectors such as affordable housing and sustainable energy.

Community bonds not only provide a means to unlock capital for projects with a positive impact but also offer investors a tangible opportunity to drive change while earning a fair return. Tapestry actively collaborates with organizations throughout the entire process, guiding them in planning, raising, and managing community bonds. Their commitment to providing an exceptional experience ensures that investors are fully supported and engaged every step of the way.

Stand.earth is a environmental non-profit advocacy organization working to deliver large-scale solutions to climate and environmental problems worldwide. We utilize cutting-edge research, build equitable power with frontline communities, and leverage mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellbeing of our planet.

We work with investors to hold Canadian publicly-traded companies accountable to their net zero promises.

We represent investors or take financial positions in select Canadian companies ourselves. We do a deep dive analysis of their net zero plans.

We engage those companies and other investors to improve accountability, including filing shareholder resolutions where appropriate.

We believe that a just transition to the net zero economy can unlock shareholder value while giving our kids a better future.

World Animal Protection is the global voice for animal welfare, with more than 70 years’ experience working to protect animals from cruelty through practical, sustainable and science-based solutions that help people and animals alike.

We have offices in 12 countries and collaborate with local communities, the private sector, civil society and governments across 47 countries.

We have General Consultative Status with the UN and are members of Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC).

We address the two biggest causes of animal suffering today – industrial farming and the wildlife trade. Our goals are to give wildlife the right to a wild life and to build a sustainable, equitable and humane food system. Our work to protect animals will play a vital role in solving the climate emergency and public health crises.