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Kristi Fairholm Mader

Managing Director, Scale Institute

TABLE OF IMPACT INVESTMENT PRACTITIONERS (TIIP)

Kristi has always worked in the social impact sector. After 10 years as a youth worker, she returned to school to complete a business degree, with a focus on social enterprise. Kristi founded and supported several employment social enterprises, and was Director of Social Enterprise for Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network.

In 2014, Kristi co-founded Scale Collaborative and the Thriving Non-Profits program, with a focus on supporting organizations to diversify their revenue streams and build assets, and abundance. In 2021, Kristi led the launch of Thrive Impact Fund, a BC-focused fund increasing access to financing for non-profits and social enterprises. Kristi is an Alumni of the Just Economy Institute and Oxford's Impact Finance Innnovations Programme. Kristi is also the Managing Director of the Scale Institute, a charity focused on research, education and piloting of innovative social economy solutions.

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Boann is one of three wholesalers appointed through a competitive, merit-based process by the Government of Canada to invest a portion of the $755M Social Finance Fund (SFF), an initiative that seeks to accelerate the growth of Canada’s social finance market. The SFF supports charities, non-profits, social enterprises, co-operatives and other social purpose organizations (SPOs) in accessing flexible financing opportunities. Greater access to social finance through the SFF will help them grow, innovate, and enhance their social and environmental impacts.

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Boann respectfully acknowledges that our offices and staff are located on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), ̓ Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ), lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen), and Wyandot Nations, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. We are committed to listening, educating ourselves on decolonization, and to uplift and celebrate the Indigenous peoples of these lands.

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