PIRF Grant Service Providers

80-20 helps passionate social entrepreneurs who realize that to advance their mission, they need to grow their revenue.  80-20 develops sales strategies that are effective and scalable, delivers world class sales training, and helps select, hire and train a successful sales team.

Buy Social Canada brings socially driven purchasers and social enterprise suppliers together, building business relationships that generate social benefits to communities across the country. Buy Social offers a recognized, Canada-wide social enterprise certification program that opens the door to an emerging social impact network.

The Centre for Social Enterprise Development works with organizations of all industries and sizes to accelerate the growth of Ottawa’s social enterprise sector and amplify their presence and value in the marketplace. Offering a continuum of support including access to technical expertise, coaching, financing, learning communities, training, and cross-sector partnerships.

The Centre for Social Innovation provides social enterprises with the spaces, connections and resources they need to work, connect, create and transform. Social innovation refers to the creation, development, adoption, and integration of new and renewed concepts, systems, and practices that put people and planet first.
Contact: Joanna Reynolds, 416.908.6084, joanna at socialinnovation.org

Coaching and support in all phases of social enterprise development, including readiness assessment, objective setting, ideation, feasibility analysis, market research/testing, business planning, project management, organizational development, funding development, impact assessment, evaluation. Also advising on viability and cost benefit of procurement opportunities, and procurement readiness including systems and considerations.

The Conseil de la coopération de l'Ontario are working to ensure the promotion, sustainable development and innovation of French social enterprises in Ontario with targeted coaching.

Eco-Ethonomics Inc. is a social innovation consulting firm specializing in social enterprise development.  The firm offers a full suite of services, from ideation-to-scale, to help social enterprises develop capacity and succeed. Since 2008, Eco-Ethonomics has worked with over 250 social enterprises across Canada operating in every industry.

Eko Nomos specializes in the development and evaluation of social enterprises. They have worked with hundreds of social enterprises throughout Canada over 25 years. Eko Nomos has a particular expertise in rural and remote social enterprises and the role of municipalities in their development.

The Northern Ontario Research, Development, Ideas and Knowledge (NORDIK) partners with communities to solve practical issues that are important to municipalities, First Nations and community organizations in Northern Ontario. NORDIK offers business, organizational and community development support.

PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise advises social enterprises through difficult decision-making processes, facilitates essential connections, provides funding, and helps find the right resources for social enterprises across Northern Ontario.

Pillar Nonprofit Network strengthens individuals, organizations and enterprises invested in positive community impact. Pillar provides access to support and expert knowledge to social enterprises at all stages of business development, from idea to growth.

A global network of instructors, coaches and mentors. Courses on the Social Enterprise Institute platform are designed short, to-the-point, created to solve problems, and accessible online whenever needed.

Social Delta offers consulting services to social enterprises at all stages of business development. Social Delta has worked with hundreds of social enterprises across the country to help them build their own capacity to respond to customer needs, requests for proposals and to investment opportunities.  Social Delta offers strategic and proven marketing advice to help grow sales both to institutional and business clients as well as directly to the consumer.  

SOL-AIR Consultants brings together expert consultants who support decision-makers in business, cooperatives, organizations, communities or administrations involved in the development of agriculture, agrifood, tourism, social economy, and the environment to conduct: feasibility studies, market studies, business plans for the establishment or expansion of businesses. 

Sustainable Hamilton Burlington is a non-profit social organization made up of community leaders, industry experts and volunteers. Connecting businesses to service providers in areas such as energy management, product certifications and declarations, green building design, and change management. Also by setting sustainability vision, plan, and targets, measuring greenhouse gas footprints, and helping businesses achieve B Corp certification.

SVX is an impact investing platform for ventures, funds and investors seeking social and/or environmental impact alongside the potential for financial return. SVX provides a single access point for raising capital and making investments.