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Meet Our 2026-27 Global Fellows
Impact United Academy is delighted to welcome two extraordinary leaders, Hanae Bezad and Tracey Robertson, as our inaugural Global Fellows for 2026-27. At a time when Canada’s international relationships are more important than ever, our Global Fellows will build bridges and strengthen our connections with peers and partners from around the world to share leading practices and knowledge, showcase Canadian leadership and expertise, and advance collaboration and collective action.
Impact Investors Are Already Using AI. The Harder Part Is Learning How to Steward It Responsibly
Ask an impact investor whether they use AI, and most will say yes: for due diligence, memos, portfolio monitoring, data that used to take days to find or process. Ask whether they have had any real say in how that AI was built, whose knowledge trained it, or who absorbs the environmental and human costs of running it, and the answers become more challenging.
Impact United Academy Welcomes New Board Directors
Impact United Academy is pleased to welcome five exceptional leaders to its Board of Directors, bringing a wide range of perspectives and hands-on experience in influencing and mobilizing capital for positive change.
(Guest Blog) Impact Investing Is Dead. Long Live Impact Investing
Impact investing, we are told, has lost its way — captured by mainstream finance, diluted by marketing departments, and stripped of the moral urgency that gave it meaning. Had impact investment functioned as a temporary refuge for money that had nowhere better to go when
financial markets underperformed?
They are not wrong. But they are describing a chapter, not the whole story.
Growing the Systemic Investing Field in Canada
This blog presents three key takeaways from the third Systemic Investing Summit, hosted this year by TransCap and Converge Capital in Rio de Janeiro – and how Impact United Academy is well-positioned to deliver on these intentions.
(Guest Blog) Conversation Café: Investing Beyond Impact
On April 2nd, Impact for Breakfast Vancouver hosted a 90-minute Conversation Café that asked a deceptively simple question: What would it look like to invest not just in outcomes, but in the health of a whole system?
Reconciliation & Social Equity: Insights from Impact United Academy’s Leadership Retreat
Participants explored how education, culturally grounded capital, and long-term community engagement can drive transformational change in Indigenous and BIPOC communities.
Community Finance: Insights from Impact United Academy’s Leadership Retreat
At the Impact United Leadership Retreat, participants explored how investment tools can move capital closer to communities while reimagining who holds financial power, who bears risk, and who benefits from shared prosperity.
Natural Capital & Sustainable Food: Insights from Impact United Academy’s Leadership Retreat
Asset holders and impact investors came together to explore various critical topics, including natural capital and sustainable food as powerful drivers of environmental resilience, community well-being, and long-term value creation.
Systemic Investing: Insights from Impact United Academy’s Leadership Retreat
At the Impact United Leadership Retreat, asset holders and impact investors came together to explore the emerging field of systemic investing, and the opportunity this approach holds for Canada.
A New Chapter: Introducing Co-Leadership at Impact United Academy
Impact United Academy is thrilled to announce a significant milestone in its evolution: the appointment of James Chan and Michelle Baldwin as Co-Executive Directors. This transition marks not just a change in leadership, but a purposeful reimagining of how we lead and serve our community of active and aspiring investors across Canada.