Become a Funder or Partner
Building Financial Resilience and Well-Being Together
As a non-profit organization, we are driven by our vision to create a better world through improved financial resilience and financial well-being for all. We cannot do this work alone.
Do your impact goals align with ours?
Below are some of our key impact focus areas, with others ones we can explore in line with your organization’s purpose and impact goals:
Founding Funders
Operating and Program Support Provided by
Partners and Supporters Include
Our Strategic Partners and Funders have been supporting and collaborating with us to help accelerate positive impact and systemic change. Over the past few years, we have made progress towards our impact goals, delivering impact and positive outcomes in Canada and beyond.
How we work with Purpose-Led and Philanthropic Funders and Partners
Since our founding, the Financial Resilience Institute has been working with philanthropic organizations and purpose-led organizations and funders committed to improving financial services and the financial lives for all Canadians, including in particular those who are underserved or more financially vulnerable.
Our non-profit Institute is now expanding our partnerships and impact internationally.
Philanthropies, purpose-driven organizations, social finance leaders and innovators committed to social change play a critical role in the mission to improve financial resilience, financial health and financial well-being for all. From financial support to strategic guidance, deep funder relationships make possible a wide variety of in-depth and longitudinal consumer research and programs that bring independent, timely data and measurement to informed evidence-based programs, policies and targeted support. These and our impact projects inform high-quality product and program design, and scale solutions that promote consumer financial resilience, health and well-being.
Because of strong support from nationally-recognized organizations committed to social change, we conduct key research and lead or support customized impact projects to improve people’s lives.
Impact Focus Areas of our Non-Profit
Accelerate and Measure Your Impact With us
We’re building strategic and impact partnerships to catalyze positive change to help build resilient, thriving communities in partnership with organizations and innovators focused on improving the financial well-being and lives of Canadians and global citizens.
Our non-profit works to support the impact and organizational goals of our funders and partners, through customized programs and collaborative impact work. We work as an Impact Measurement Partner for many organizations, and help them do what they do best, in terms of driving impact levering their assets and relationships.
Your support as a grant funder and partner will contribute to:
Impact Work
- Focused on understanding, tracking and improving financial resilience and financial well-being for all to drive systemic change.
- Contributing to reduced financial vulnerability and more resilient, sustainable thriving communities.
- Advancing equities and more vulnerable populations.
- Improved small business financial health and resilience supporting economic and community resilience.
- Evidence-based research analytics, impact measurement, programs, interventions and solutions.
- Driving more targeted, impactful investments and measurable social, customer and financial benefits.
Capacity Building
- Help grow our non-profit’s team, capacity and impact programs in Canada and internationally.
- Support the Institute in providing independent research, impact measurement and free reports to support driven decision making and catalyze positive change.
- Access free programs, instruments and tools to support engagement, advocacy, evidence-informed program and policy development and systems change.
- Progress targeted research and impact projects to drive social, financial and customer outcomes.
- Access our team’s expertise and thought-leadership as a leading independent authority on financial well-being.
We provide different grant funder and partner benefits based on the impact priorities, commitment levels and size of your organization. Our non-profit is actively growing our funder and partners in Canada and internationally. We work on joint and pro-bono impact projects as well.
Benefits of Being a Grant Funder or Partner
By becoming a grant funder or partner you can:
- Commission independent reports, targeted research, and impact projects related to financial well- being and your impact priorities.
- Access robust data, insights, impact measurement and best practices to inform and guide your community impact and innovation initiatives for customers, employees and communities.
- Gain recognition, branding and sponsorship benefits
- Access engagement, volunteering and thought leadership to accelerate positive change
Contact us to learn more about the benefits of becoming a partner and funder, with impact and other benefits available for your organization.
Example Free Reports published thanks to the Support of our Funders
Financial Resilience Institute provides independent, evidence-based insights and data to support the ecosystem, along with programs, research, Indices and tools to help measurably improve peoples’ financial health, resilience, well-being, while fostering financial inclusion and empowerment. We also publish many ecosystem reports and lead thought-leadership with these made possible thanks to the generous support of our strategic partners and funders. Just some of these are below:
Protection as a Pathway to Financial Resilience
Economic Inclusion and Mobility Intelligence Memo
The Financial Vulnerability and Challenges of Key Populations
Climate Change and Household Financial Vulnerability Intelligence Memo
“Vancity is a proud founding funder of the Financial Resilience Institute. The Institute has provided much-needed data and analysis to the ecosystem of organizations dedicated to the financial health and resilience of Canadians. The Seymour Financial Resilience Index ® has been vital in guiding Vancity’s commitment to Financial Health and Inclusion, providing useful insight on how to build the financial resilience of our members and communities.”
Andrea Harris,
VP Impact Strategy, Vancity Savings Credit Union
“As we strive to improve the financial resilience and security of our clients and our communities, the Institute’s peer-reviewed Financial Resilience Index model will enable our ability to meaningfully measure our progress toward our purpose. We’re proud to be a client, partner, and funder of the Institute as we help to shape and deliver programs and offerings that support Canadians. Through this, more can receive the protection they need and save, plan, and invest while working toward more resilient futures.”
Rob Wesseling,
President & CEO, Co-operators
“Coast Capital is delighted to be an Impact Funder of the Institute as we strive to Build Better Futures Together by unlocking financial opportunities that impact people and communities. We are especially looking forward to the publication of the Institute’s upcoming Intelligence Memo, leveraging the Institute’s index data and thought leadership. Being a new partner, we’re also keen to utilize the Institute’s impact measurement and financial health expertise to drive positive impact for our employees, members and communities.”
Maureen Young,
Vice-President, Social Purpose
Outcomes your financial support and partnership can help us realize:
We’re working to improve financial resilience, health and well-being; foster financial inclusion and empowerment and drive systems-change. By partnering with our Institute, your organization can help us to invest in:
- Independent longitudinal measurement and research on vulnerable populations in need of targeted support, such as Indigenous Canadians, women, racialized Canadians, low-income households, and people with disabilities
- Cross-sector impact and collaboration with financial institutions, policymakers, non-profits, employers, and partners to create solutions and programs help improve the financial health and resilience of individuals, families, small businesses and communities
- Thought leadership and innovation to help reduced financial vulnerability and improve the financial health and well-being of Canadians and global citizens
- Analytics and free reports that shine a light on inequities and financial health and resilience gaps between financially resilient and more financially vulnerable populations
- Tracking of financial inclusion and access-to-help gaps for more financially vulnerable populations, plus independent tracking on the extent to which financial institutions and other organizations are helping to improve the financial wellness of their customers and communities
- Empowering Canadians and global citizens to understand, maintain, and improve their financial resilience, including customers, families, and business customers of the stakeholders we serve.