A Decade of Purppl: A Purposeful Evolution
Reflecting on ten years of social enterprise development, celebrating the launch of the Abundance Collective, and narrowing Purppl’s focus to the systemic levers of community wealth. Ten years ago, we started Purppl with a pretty…
What Becomes Possible When Relationships Come First
How Young Agrarians and IndigenEYEZ partnered to grow more relationships between farmers and First Nations Since 2012, Young Agrarians, a farmer-to-farmer educational resource network, has worked to support new and next-generation farmers across the…
From Startup to Stability: Insights from Our 2024 Impact Report
Our 2024 report captures a turning point – the moment we realized we’d outgrown our systems and needed to build the infrastructure of a mature social enterprise. We’re a bit (a lot) late releasing…
Our Journey Together Piloting Leadership-for-Reconciliation Coaching
Co-developed by kinSHIFT and Purppl, this program brings together non-Indigenous and Indigenous impact leaders to practice building respectful relationships. When BEEM Credit Union (formed by the merger of Interior Savings and Gulf & Fraser)…
Can hope really be a strategy?
With the right approach, yes. Why we can’t afford to be apathetic or lose hope for the future of social change in our communities. I’ve been tired lately. I’m not sure if you’ve heard…
Operation: Abundance
How we’re investing in operations in order to scale our capacity for impact and enable abundance in the social economy At Purppl, we’re on a continuous journey to contribute to a just, regenerative economy that…
Blending Profit and Purpose: How Purppl Thrives as a Community Contribution Company
What is a Community Contribution Company (CCC) and why is Purppl one? Business has a critical role to play in shaping culture and communities. Since the industrial age, for-profit models of product and service delivery…
Understanding Social Finance for Social Impact
Social finance leverages capital to achieve social, cultural, and environmental goals along with financial returns. It’s a way for social enterprises and impact organizations to add flexible capital where other funders may be unwilling to…
Attainable & Affordable Housing and Social Enterprise
Connect Money Impact: Attainable & Affordable Housing and Social Enterprise There are over 12 million empty bedrooms across Canada — space that could be used to accommodate everyone and foster a sense of belonging for…
Moving from Outputs to Outcomes: ESG and Impact Measurement
How do we measure impact? This is a difficult question to answer, and there is an increasing amount of pressure on organizations to do exactly that. Sue Manzuik, Community Engagement Specialist at Interior Savings, a…
Holding Hope – Insights from Purppl’s 2023 Impact Report
As we wind down the year, the Purppl team is thrilled to share our 2023 Impact Report. This report is not simply a summary of what we’ve done, but a celebration of the collective journey…
Reigniting Hope and Cultivating Belonging Through the Social Enterprise Movement
“This is not a land acknowledgment. This is an acknowledgment of the work that needs to be done,” said Kelly Terbasket, Co-Founder and Program Director of IndigenEYEZ & kinSHIFT, reciting Heather George’s words as she…
