Practical Tools and Templates

This toolkit proposes a strategy to address the structures, institutions, and the determinants that shape health equity. Health equity is understood as everyone's right to fair and just opportunities to be as healthy as possible. It centers the power of parks and open spaces, and arts and culture...

The website offers free e-books on different topics related to working effectively with Indigenous People. The collection includes books with tips for words that can or cannot be used, overview of self-government, tips for local governments, among others.

A multi-voiced compilation of language guidelines created by community members, grassroots leaders, activists, and progressive funders in the U.S. It aims to combat discriminatory language and to promote a broad range of identities and perspectives when writing, speaking and using images. The guide...

The guide is a creative problem-solving process based on equity, humility-building, integrating history and healing practices, addressing power dynamics, and co-creating with the community. This design process focuses on the community's culture and needs so that they can gain tools to dismatle...

This listing of Social Purpose Real Estate Terminology was developed by the SPRE Collaborative with support from UBC School of Regional and Community Planning and Mitacs.

This Literature Review was completed in 2020, in preparation for the Collaborative’s update and expansion of “RENT - LEASE – OWN: Understanding the Real Estate Challenges Impacting the Nonprofit/Social Purpose Sector”. SPRE is grateful to the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning and Mitacs...

A new program by VEC, businesses and organizations can sign up for Industrial Concierge Services to connect to opportunities for industrial space-sharing in Vancouver.

from the awesome folks at the Northern California Loan Fund, this new website offers templates, tools and resources for non profit real estate and financial management

"Creating and preserving affordable housing and other community-owned assets in Canada is more critical than ever given the rapid escalation of real estate costs and the relative stagnation of wages in major urban markets. This makes the need for the non-profit sector to increase its real estate...

The social impact resulting from all aspects of architecture must be taken into consideration for any work. This guide fill a gap in design knowledge around issues relating to universal washroom and change rooms in community and recreation facilities. The objectives of this document are to provide...