Post Budget Town Hall: Community Resilience Strategy
Post Budget Town Hall
Latest campaign updates, your questions, and next steps toward the Spring Economic Statement.
About this event
Over the past few months, organizations across Canada's impact field have aligned their policy priorities behind a common agenda: community resilience being foundational to Canada's economic sovereignty.
Hundreds of organizations have now signed the Community Resilience Open Letter, asking the Government of Canada to build community resilience into Budget 2026 through three linked pillars:
a $3 billion Community Resilience Fund;
tax and guarantee tools to unlock private and philanthropic capital; and
framework legislation recognizing community finance institutions.
Join us for one hour for an update on the campaign and next steps toward action.
What we will cover
Updates on the campaign.
A discussion on where do we we go from here.
Next steps towards the Spring Economic Statement.
Who should come
Foundations, community finance institutions, Indigenous financial institutions, impact investors, networks, municipalities, housing providers and researchers who have submitted a budget submission.
This is a collective campaign stewarded and facilitated by a working group from Impact United Academy's Public Policy Circle, including: Definity Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Social Capital Partners, SVX, and the Victoria Forum.
A small working group got the campaign this far. This town hall is where it becomes a bigger team effort!