Social Finance Forum

Investing in Our Future is both a question and a call to action. In the face of economic volatility, market uncertainty, and escalating political tensions—including annexation threats from our closest neighbour—how can we grow Canada’s economic systems with purpose, not isolation? And how can we mobilize capital not just to protect what we have, but to build what the future requires of us?
This year, the 2025 Social Finance Forum, Canada’s premier conference on impact finance and investing is not shying away from the conversation. For two powerful days, we will steer the conversation between capital managers, ecosystem shapers, business, and new-to-the-impact asset influencers—like philanthropists, family offices, and wealth advisors—for an urgent and distinctly Canadian conversation about resilience, regeneration, and results.
Together, we’ll examine six pivotal futures for Canada: Indigenous, Equity, Climate, Food, Housing, and Main Streets— and what it takes to capitalize them— together.
The bilingual content of this Forum is made possible through the support of the Partnership Investments Program of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Franco-Ontarian communities and businesses continue to drive economic growth and social progress with a unique perspective, throughout the province of Ontario. The Trillium Foundation’s funding also allows Franco-Ontarian participants to benefit from special ticket prices.
Listen to our very own Gwen Patrick, the Financial Innovation Lead at the Shorefast Institute, overseeing program execution and financial and economic toolset development. Her primary focus is Economic Nutrition, which is a tool developed by Shorefast and modelled after the practice of food nutrition labelling that shows where your money goes and what it pays for. Gwen grew up on Salt Spring Island, BC, where she founded the Foundation of Youth, a youth advisory committee of the Salt Spring Island Foundation. While earning her Bachelor of Commerce at Queen’s University, she received the Kehoe Fellowship, enabling her to intern with Shorefast on Fogo Island. After graduation, she obtained her CPA designation and worked in public accounting at KPMG in Victoria and then at Deloitte in Toronto before returning to Shorefast.