Harvest Impact grows in collaboration with key partners
Harvest Impact is on a learning journey to understand how social finance can meet the needs of the entrepreneurs who are pushed to the margins when it comes to mainstream finance.
We are fortunate to have the support of great partners on this journey.
Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL)
We collaborate with Guelph’s Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL), to promote circular economy practices in small and medium enterprises, including non-profits, charities and co-ops.
Waterloo-Wellington Community Futures Development Corporation
The team here is a sister organization with more than a decade of experience making developmental loans to to small businesses in rural Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Harvest is grateful to ongoing collaborations and support we enjoy with WWCFDC.
Our Food Future
Harvest Impact Loan Fund launched as the social finance partner to Our Food Future — A Smart Cities Circular Food Economy Project in Guelph-Wellington, working to achieve net increases nutritious food access, new circular enterprises and increases in circular economy revenue by recognizing the value of waste.
New Power Labs
New Power Labs is an action-oriented think tank, dedicated to expanding access to capital for underfunded and overlooked communities.
Common Approach to Impact Measurement
We are working with Common Approach to develop flexible, shareable impact measurement for social purpose organizations. They are committed to centering impact measurement on the needs of operating charities, nonprofits and social-purpose businesses and those they serve rather than foundations, grantmakers and impact investors.