Upcoming Events

The launch of the African Canadian Farmers Fund serves as a pivotal moment in addressing the systemic biases plaguing African Canadian farmers' access to farmland. Tune in for this free event to hear directly from food sovereignty workers who will share their firsthand experiences navigating the hurdles of accessing capital within a landscape riddled with internal and external biases. Their insights will shed light on the urgent need for investment in values-based alternatives to the status quo, and highlighting the Fund's role in breaking down barriers and empowering African Canadian farmers to secure land ownership.

Next Workshop: To Be Announced

Financial education can seem overwhelming: managing daily sales, forecasting for the future, managing unforeseen costs and demand and more. Join us for our upcoming Financial Education Workshops, a series designed to provide local food and farm social entrepreneurs with practical and accessible knowledge, Each session will include practical tools, exercises, case studies and group discussion followed by 30 minutes for questions.

Next Workshop: To Be Announced

Purpose & Profit is a series of online learning opportunities for the local food and farm sector. Get inspired, learn new skills and be empowered by a community with common goals, values, and interests to make a difference. In this year's series, we focus on climate resilience and how you can incorporate innovative and sustainable practices into our business that drive profits.

Investing for the Future brings together impact investment leaders to talk about current trends, options and the future of impact investing. Impact investing is now a multi-billion dollar segment of the investment industry. Impact investors help entrepreneurs achieve decent workplaces, affordable housing, climate resilience, food security, and more. 

Join the Fair Finance Fund for a solutions-oriented land access workshop focusing on Black-led farm business projects. We will hear from acclaimed panelists, followed by smaller group practical discussions on how to employ a range of strategies and how resilient and replicable options that bring success to one farmer can also mean success of others.

Impact investing is on the rise. In the last decade, investors have changed how they think about their money and ways they can use their capital for good. In our new impact investing series, Investing with Purpose, we explore how money can do a lot more than make you money.

Join us each week to hear from those in the social finance and impact investing landscape who inspire change and bring innovative solutions to address today's pressing challenges.

Purpose & Profit is a series of online learning opportunities for the local food and farm sector. Get inspired, learn new skills and be empowered by a community with common goals, values, and interests to make a difference.

In this year's series, learn how to manage your finances, align your money with your values, connect with your best customers, understand the importance of tracking your impact, and how to create a valued workplace.

We are proud to partner with SETSI (Social Economy through Social Inclusion), a national group working with BIPOC entrepreneurs, to address the financial barriers and everyday challenges that marginalized groups face in the local food and farm sector and solutions for an equitable and sustainable food future.

Are you experiencing barriers to accessing capital to grow your food or farm business in northern Ontario? Are you values-driven, aiming to make a social, environmental or economic impact within your community? Whether you are financing a major project, purchasing equipment or completing renovations, we are here to make your vision come to life.