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The Nature Investment Hub currently partners with leading organizations in the nature finance ecosystem in Canada. We collaborate with financial, corporate, philanthropic, Indigenous, non-profit, and government partners.
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Workshops for Biodiversity mobilizes stakeholders to integrate biodiversity into their decision-making. We achieve this mission by designing and organizing workshops and training courses on biodiversity, and by working on concrete projects to mainstream it into the practices and decisions of Quebec stakeholders, with the aim of achieving transformative change.
Birds Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to bird conservation. Our mission is to drive action to increase the understanding, appreciation, and conservation of birds in Canada. Every day, our thousands of caring donors, 60+ passionate staff, and 70,000+ outstanding volunteers are taking action to help us better understand, appreciate, and conserve birds and their habitats.
Bloom Local Food Fund is a place-based social impact fund designed to build sustainable and inclusive rural communities with a thematic focus on regenerative food systems and agriculture. The fund is founded on the belief there is an opportunity to invest in scalable local enterprises and projects, while delivering generative financial returns and achieving positive, measurable impacts in communities.
The Canadian Biosphere Regions Association (CBRA) stands as both as an organization in its own right and as the collective voice of Canada’s 19 UNESCO-designated biosphere regions, also referred to as biosphere regions. They facilitate connections, provide support, and promote their local work, raising their profile and scaling their collective impact. CBRA also supports operational capacity building and knowledge-sharing opportunities within the network.
CPAWS advocates for the effective, long-term protection of ecologically- and culturally-significant land, freshwater and ocean areas in Canada. Working in a way that respects the sovereignty and leadership of Indigenous nations, they achieve their mission through knowledge-based advocacy, and public education and engagement, underpinned by collaboration and partnership.
Carolinian Canada Coalition is a network of leaders growing healthy landscapes for a green future in the Carolinian Zone, Canada’s extraordinary far south, in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. They connect science, community and business for healthy ecosystems and climate-smart neighbourhoods from Toronto to Windsor, Ontario.
The Centre’s vision is to become a dynamic hub for climate-focused business education and problem-driven research. Grounded in robust research and a commitment to innovation and partnerships, the Centre empowers the business community to define and advance its role in building a climate-positive future. To achieve this, they partner with businesses to develop climate-ready talent, advance problem-driven research, and catalyze industry shifts through actionable dialogue.
Climate Finance Advisors is a boutique advisory firm in sustainable finance, impact investing, and environmental finance. The team is composed of experienced professionals who are dedicated to closing the sustainability funding gaps in a financially efficient manner.
Coast Funds is an Indigenous-led conservation finance organization created to support First Nations’ goals for conservation, stewardship, and economic development in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii. The organization manages a conservation endowment, supporting stewardship and Guardian programs, and an economic development fund, supporting businesses and community infrastructure.
A globally-recognized model of project finance for permanence (PFP), Coast Funds demonstrates the value of putting Indigenous rights, responsibilities, and decision-making at the center of a conservation economy.
Ducks Unlimited Canada is a passionate community of people who believe that nature is the foundation of strong communities, a prosperous economy and a sustainable future that supports the hopes and dreams of the next generation. Together, they conserve and restore some of the most valuable and threatened landscapes on the planet.
Echo Foundation is a private charitable foundation incorporated in 1983, whose head office is in Montreal, Canada. Its two areas of interest are mental health and the environment. The Foundation’s environment grants focus on Eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces), with a priority given to the protection of natural areas of ecological importance. The Foundation also provides support, on a case-by-case basis, for a variety of other concrete endeavours designed to promote and enhance sustainable environmental practices.
Established in 2012, EcoAdvisors builds robust, multi-partner sustainability programs in the philanthropic world, advise leading global corporations on sustainability integration, advise governments on policy, regulations and programs, and design impact investment strategies. Their sister company, EcoInvestors Capital, is an emerging investment management firm that leverages this expertise to invest for sustainability at scale.
The Escarpment Corridor Alliance (ECA) is a regional conservation charity focused on protecting the Niagara Escarpment in Southern Georgian Bay. Its mission is to create a permanently connected ecological corridor linking forests, wetlands, and watersheds to safeguard biodiversity, enhance community wellness, and strengthen climate resilience. Combining science-based approaches with Indigenous knowledge, ECA collaborates with local communities, landowners, stakeholders, governments, and partners to preserve critical landscapes, prevent harmful development, and ensure long-term protection.
Finance Montréal is Québec’s financial cluster. Created in 2010 by the financial services industry at the Québec government’s invitation, Finance Montréal brings together under one roof governing members, partners, associates and numerous volunteer professionals from Québec’s financial sector. Their mission is to develop and promote Québec’s financial services industry by bringing together stakeholders and influential players from the world of finance. Finance Montréal is the hub where key players in the financial industry join forces to make Québec’s financial industry more competitive and prosperous.
First 30×30 Canada supports Indigenous-led conservation by harnessing nature-based solutions and carbon finance. Nature-based solutions (NbS) protect and restore ecosystems to benefit both human well-being and biodiversity. Together, we will advance a network of Indigenous-led projects, each with NbS and Indigenous rights and responsibilities at their center. In particular, we look for opportunities to channel carbon and NbS finance for the growing network of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada. We focus on social justice and Indigenous leadership. First 30×30 is a partnership between the IISAAK OLAM Foundation, Nature for Justice, and Nature Focus Development.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is the world’s most trusted sustainable forest management solution. They are a non-profit membership organization that certifies over 200 million hectares of forest worldwide. FSC’s responsible forestry standard, linked to a strict chain of custody certification, is a proven nature-based solution to tackle today’s climate and biodiversity challenges.
Forests Canada is a national non-profit charity working to conserve, restore, and grow Canada’s forests to sustain life and communities. While the impact of their work is rooted in tree planting, it doesn’t start or end there. From the annual collection of millions of viable tree seeds ensuring a reliable and consistent future supply, to supporting local jobs and economies through our restoration and stewardship programs, Forests Canada works with a trusted network of partners to ensure the long-term health and resiliency of our forests today, and for future generations.
At Generate Canada, we believe that the single greatest test of human ingenuity is creating an economy that improves people’s lives. One that grows good jobs, better health, and well-being, while valuing and protecting nature. It can and must be done in this generation.
In partnership with the Smart Prosperity Institute, we connect problem-solvers to collaboratively generate, test, and scale research-driven solutions to the most complex challenges of our time. We bring together the people willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work this requires.
Honeytree Investment Management is a Toronto-based asset management firm focused on responsible growth. They manage long-only, concentrated strategies focused on purpose-driven, stakeholder governed companies making a net-positive impact on the world.
The Indigenous Leadership Initiative supports Indigenous Nations in honouring the cultural responsibility to care for lands and waters. We are dedicated to strengthening Indigenous Nationhood and Indigenous leadership on the land by supporting the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, building a national network of Indigenous Guardians programs, and facilitating land use planning.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning independent think tank working to fulfill a bold commitment: to create a world where people and the planet thrive.
Kwaxala LP is an Indigenous nature regeneration network. They take genuinely at-risk forests, legally protect them, and return them to the regenerative care of their ancestral guardians, as profitable living forests, generating income from carbon and ecosystem services. The Kwaxala model is being piloted on their ancestral territory in the magnificent, but heavily damaged and depleted, Southern Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada.
The Centre for Applied Research on Biodiversity and Ecosystems (CRABE) supports subnational governments, the private and financial sectors, and other stakeholders in Quebec society on issues of biodiversity and adaptation to the environmental crisis. CRABE develops and disseminates best scientific knowledge through research and the training of experts, at the interface of disciplines and sectors of society.
The Metcalf Foundation enhances the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy, and creative society. We create change by building transformative solutions that benefit people, climate, and biodiversity; advancing strategies that enable economic dignity and prosperity for low-income people and communities in Toronto; and supporting individuals, organizations, and field building in the performing arts.
By funding research, convening, and on-the-ground activities — in addition to its role as core funder, founding partner, and strategic advisor to the Nature Investment Hub — the Metcalf Foundation supports leaders across Canada who are advancing new pathways for conservation and stewardship.
At NationsFirst, they are redefining natural resources as a regenerative asset class, driving wealth creation through Indigenous principles and governance innovation. NationsFirst designs market frameworks that empower Nations to cultivate natural capital, while offering investors a transparent, traceable digital platform for investment.
The Natural Assets Initiative, offers innovative approaches to municipal infrastructure management by integrating natural assets into the planning and financial systems. It guides local governments, watershed stewards, and many others in recognizing, valuing, and managing natural assets alongside traditional infrastructure to enhance ecosystem services and climate resilience. This approach promotes sustainable development, reduces costs, and improves community well-being by leveraging nature’s solutions to address environmental challenges.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a leading non-profit, conservation organization, working to protect ecologically significant lands across Canada. They work at a local level with community members and partners to secure parcels of land for conservation. This includes collaborating with Indigenous communities across the country and acknowledging their long history of stewarding and caring for the natural environment. Since its founding, NCC has protected more than 15 million hectares of land and water across the country, including the natural habitat of more than a quarter of the country’s endangered species.
Nature Focus Development reimagines what it means to protect the planet—by putting Indigenous leadership, ecological integrity, and economic resilience at the heart of climate solutions. They are builders of bold models: regenerative finance structures, verifiable carbon and biodiversity credits, and project delivery systems that return sovereignty, revenue, and long-term stewardship to communities too often left out of the conversation.
N4J empowers frontline communities to use nature-based solutions to drive climate justice, restore ecosystems, and secure long-term resilience. Their work focuses on their local partners. Together, they identify, develop, and sustain high-integrity, locally-led nature-based solutions that deliver lasting impact—driving climate resilience, social justice and community well-being. By blending access to global nature markets with grants and other financial tools, N4J unlocks the resources communities need to lead and scale their efforts.
The Nature Tech Collective is a global community, united by a vision of a nature positive future, where human and natural systems coexist and thrive effectively on a planetary scale. NTC believes a nature-positive future depends on accelerating the global adoption of nature tech solutions. NTC’s goal is to identify nature tech adoption challenges and transform them into opportunities – all through the power of connection, collaboration and shared knowledge.
Nature United is committed to reimagining conservation across Canada. As an affiliate of the world’s largest conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy (nature.org), we build diverse partnerships to conserve nature, ensuring it is the foundation of healthy communities and economies. Our team works collaboratively in ecologically valuable and economically important places to advance Indigenous-led conservation and implement Natural Climate Solutions. Since Canada first adopted the 17% protected-area goal — now increased in ambition to 30% — Nature United has been working with partners to map a blueprint for conservation finance, while also working with Indigenous communities to design and implement flexible finance solutions.
Nature United shares our aspiration to advance investments in nature to support rural and remote communities on the frontlines of the climate and biodiversity crises. A founding partner and advisor to the Hub, Nature United brings decades of global and national experience, plus tangible results, in large-scale conservation, including Indigenous-led conservation and Natural Climate Solutions.
Ontario Nature’s mission is to protect wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement. A registered charity, Ontario Nature represents 9,500 members, 130,000 supporters and 150 member groups from across Ontario.
Rally Assets is an impact investment management firm. Impact investing is all they do and all they’ve ever done. They help investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. They create impact funds and other portfolios to enable foundations, other institutional investors, family offices and individual accredited investors to invest in alignment with their values.
Raven Outcomes Funds is an Indigenous-led impact fund transforming capital flow to Indigenous communities across Canada. Using Community-Driven Outcomes Contracts, investments are made up front but repaid only when real outcomes are achieved, ensuring accountability. Raven aligns investors, governments, and philanthropy behind community-led solutions in climate and health. All projects are co-designed with communities and evaluated through a Two-Eyed Seeing” lens that honors both Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.
Realize Capital Partners is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund, and is powered by Rally Assets.
RESOLVE Canada forges sustainable solutions to critical social, health, and environmental challenges by creating innovative partnerships where they are least likely and most needed. RESOLVE Canada brings a unique combination of expertise to its work: mediation and process design; solutions-focused strategies and programs; and a capacity to create and launch self-sustaining social enterprise. As an independent, nonpartisan, NGO, RESOLVE Canada works across sectors, borders, and political lines to engage with business, government, foundation, NGO, and community leaders.
A growing network of Indigenous leaders, Knowledge Carriers, Guardians, and allies advancing a shared vision for decolonized, regenerative, Indigenous-led conservation. Through collaboration, co-learning, and reciprocity, we support Indigenous-led nature and climate solutions by connecting Nations and Communities to financing, tools, and resources. RAD network’s work helps advance community and conservation priorities, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and nature-based solutions.
The Sitka Foundation is dedicated to environmental philanthropy, focusing on biodiversity preservation. Through strategic funding and partnerships, it supports projects and organizations working on critical environmental issues. The Foundation prioritizes initiatives that aim to protect natural habitats, promote biodiversity, and foster community engagement in environmental stewardship. By aligning its investments with its mission, Sitka actively contributes to the development of a more sustainable and resilient planet.
The Smart Prosperity Institute is a policy think tank and global research network focused on the environment and the economy.
SVX’s mission is to advance social, environmental and economic justice through impact investing. As a nonprofit, diversified financial services firm, SVX works with investors, funds, enterprises, and institutions to help them take the first step or next step on their impact journey. SVX provides knowledge products and programs, designs strategies and products, manages funds, operates an impact investing platform, and develops systems change solutions.
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