Blended Finance Summit: Elevating Approaches to Catalytic Capital

​Spring, Thrive Impact Fund, and IIH-ACET invite you to the Third Annual Blended Finance Summit, where mission-aligned capital providers will come together to elevate the practical application of blended finance in Canada and further drive environmental, social, and economic change.

​Join us for a powerful mix of empowering education, live case studies, real-time discussions, topical dinners, and networking. You will gain exposure to innovative tools and approaches that bring investors, foundations, financial institutions, and other capital stakeholders jointly into investment while meeting diverse risk, return, and impact expectations. Engage with a motivated and collaborative group for this work will empower you to bring catalytic capital models back to your communities to mobilize projects that may be traditionally challenging to finance.

​Your Facilitators are:

• ​Kristi Fairholm Mader, Thrive Impact Fund

• ​Keith Ippel, Spring Impact Society

• ​Tracey Robertson

​Guest Speakers are being added, and you can expect thought leaders such as:

• ​Ruth Shaber, Founder of Tara Health Foundation, Board Director at Toniic, and author of the XX Edge

• ​Sana Kapadia, Heading for Change

• ​Kelly Gauthier and Ben Rabinovich, Realize Capital Partners

• ​Kristin Richard, Entreprenorth

• ​Krystal Valencia, Rental Rescue

• ​Aaron McRann, Community Foundation of the South Okanagan | Similkameen

• ​Basma Majerbi, UVic Impact Investing Hub

• ​Wayne Miranda, Definity Foundation

• ​Urmi Sengupta, MacArthur Foundation

• ​Erin In, Mapleric Positive Impact

• ​Daniel Fuentes Rodriguez, The Nature Conservancy

​To ensure financial accessibility, we are offering flexible ticket pricing with a suggested price of $500 CAD (incl. HST) to cover the costs of venue, food, speaker travel, and logistics. Your support is greatly appreciated.