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Today is the last day to apply for Fall 2026 Thriving Non-Profits cohorts.

The cohort program helps non-profits and charities build a practical Revenue Diversification Action Plan for their organization through four months of facilitated learning, coaching, and peer learning with organizations from across Canada.

If strengthening your organization’s long-term financial resilience is a priority, this program is for you!

⏰ There are just three more days to apply for our Fall 2026 cohort program! Starting this September, join non-profit leaders from across Canada for four months of dedicated learning, expert coaching, and peer connection designed to help your organization build greater financial resilience and long-term sustainability.

Here's what one participant had to say about their experience:

“The program, concepts, resources, and access to experienced individuals are second to none. We have SO many ideas of things we can do differently (large and small) that we want to do them all now.” – Stacey Stilling, Chief Administrative Officer, Mountain View Seniors' Housing

Thanks to our National Presenting Partner Coast Capital, and Community Partners Community Initiatives Fund, Nanaimo Foundation, Saskatchewan Community Foundation, Saskatoon Community Foundation, Vancity, Vancouver Foundation, and The Victoria Foundation, a limited number of bursaries are available for organizations facing financial barriers to participation. More information about bursary options can be found in the application form.

👉 Applications take less than five minutes to complete. Visit www.thrivingnonprofits[dot].ca to get started.

We were excited to partner with Social Innovation Canada on this article exploring how organizations across the country are building financial resilience in new ways. It highlights our Thriving Non-Profits journey and the role that revenue diversification, coaching, asset ownership, and access to capital can play in helping organizations move beyond survival mode and create greater impact.

How can nonprofits move beyond dependency on grants towards greater financial sustainability and freedom to innovate?

Thriving Non-Profits has helped hundreds of organizations answer this question.

One answer looks like LUSH Valley Food Action Society. Since starting out almost entirely dependent on grants, LUSH has:
💲 diversified its revenue model
🏢 purchased the first floor of a building they already operated in
🍎 increased food recovery and distribution across the Comox Valley region
💪 expanded partnerships and continuity in their programming

As Maurita Prato — LUSH’s Executive Director, Thriving Non-Profits alumna, and one of Thrive Impact Fund’s investees — put it, this evolution created “the autonomy to do what we want to do to satisfy our community’s needs.”

Read more from Thriving Non-Profits on how shifting mindsets around money and risk can build long-term community wealth: https://www.thrivingnonprofits.ca/pages/blog?p=rethinking-how-non-profits-build-resilience

We're proud to share these insights through the Social Innovation Impact initiative, a partnership between SI Canada, Winnipeg Boldness and MIS Maison de l'innovation sociale to help social innovators track and demonstrate their impact.