Scale Collaborative

📣 We’re thrilled to share the release of the Scale Collaborative 2025 Impact Report! This year’s report reflects a year of integration, growth, and deepening impact across our ecosystem of programs, partners, and communities. In 2025, we continued to support organizations to move from strategy into action and investment, including:

🎓 Thriving Non-Profits engaged 106 organizations in cohort learning, hosted 17 sector webinars, and supported a growing community of over 3,000 members, building confidence and capacity for long-term sustainability.
🫶 We supported 54 organizations through our coaching and consulting work, helping leaders implement revenue diversification strategies, strengthen operations, and build financial resilience.
💸 Thrive Impact Fund raised $9.27M and deployed $5.3M into social impact initiatives, supporting 23 portfolio organizations working across areas such as housing, food security, and climate.
💡 Scale Institute advanced research, innovation, and sector-building efforts, including work on access to capital, Connect Money Impact, and Impact Guarantee to strengthen Canada’s social finance ecosystem.
⚓ the Dock - Centre for Social Impact continued to grow as a vibrant community hub, welcoming 200 members and hosting 22 events that foster connection, collaboration, and shared learning in downtown Victoria.

As always, none of this is possible without the passion and dedication of our incredible team, and our deeply values-aligned partners. This work is rooted in community, connection, and a shared commitment to transform systems so communities can thrive.

As we look ahead to 2026, we’re excited to continue strengthening our ecosystem, deepening partnerships, and supporting organizations to move from vision to action and investment.

👉 Read the full report to read more about the impact we co-created last year: https://scalecollaborative.ca/2025-impact-report/

Check out this 3-part blog series with Imagine Canada, exploring pathways to financial resilience for non-profits. Each post provides new thinking about how organizations can approach funding, revenue, and capital in ways that build sustainability over time.

Over the last few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Imagine Canada on a three-part blog series that reflects the journey toward financial resilience for non-profits navigating today’s shifting economic and political landscape.

At Thriving Non-Profits, we offer journey of learning, support, and investment to help organizations move from funding dependence to financial resilience. This series brings that journey to life across three posts:

1️⃣ Part 1: Rethinking the Role of Grants - challenges us to rethink the role of traditional funding, like grants, not as the end goal, but as a starting point to build from.

2️⃣ Part 2: Earned Revenue – From Idea to Action - explores how to introduce, test, and implement earned revenue strategies in a practical way, unlocking the unrestricted revenue needed to stabilize and grow your programs, team, and impact.

3️⃣ Part 3: Investment Readiness and Access to Capital - looks at investment readiness and how organizations can access new forms of capital to bring impactful ideas to life and acquire long-term assets that strengthen financial stability while advancing your mission.

👉 If you’re ready to think differently about how your organization is funded and what’s possible, start with here with Part 1: Rethinking the Role of Grants: https://imaginecanada.ca/en/360/strengthening-your-nonprofits-financial-foundation-3-part-series

🚀 We’re hiring for a Program Coordinator to support the launch of Impact Guarantee, a national, sector-led initiative designed to strengthen and grow Canada’s social finance sector.

The role sits at the intersection of program delivery, stakeholder engagement, and communications, working with social finance intermediaries, funders, guarantors, and government partners across the country.

This is a great fit for someone who enjoys coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, brings strong organizational and communication skills, and is passionate about social finance, community investment, and systems change.

Impact Guarantee is an initiative led by Scale Institute Society and 10C Shared Space
and supported by Boann Social Impact and Definity Foundation, working together to build stronger, more inclusive financial infrastructure across Canada.

👉 Access the full job description and apply here by May 29: https://secure.collage.co/jobs/scale/62167

We’re pleased to share the Thrive Impact Fund 2025 Impact Report. 🙌 Thrive continues to mobilize our resources into good projects and support entrepreneurs stepping up to help solve some of the big challenges.
This year, Thrive:

✅ Deployed $3.13M into impact organizations across British Columbia
✅ Reached $5.3M total deployed capital since inception
✅ Grew to 23 portfolio organizations, with 15 active investees

These investments are supporting work in climate resilience, food security, local media, clean technology, and social equity.

Across our portfolio, we continue to see that access to the right kind of capital matters. Many organizations still face barriers to financing, whether due to structure, timing, or lack of collateral. Thrive’s role is to provide flexible, patient capital that aligns with how these organizations actually operate and grow.

This report reflects that approach in action: deploying the right capital at the right time, and with the right support, to help the organizations and changemakers working hard to strengthen our communities.

👉 Read the full report: https://thriveimpactfund.ca/thrive-impact-fund-2025-impact-report