Building the Impact Table Together
Social Impact Summit Canada 2026 is built with ecosystem partners who help shape the conversation, bring communities to the table, contribute knowledge, and support Canada's emerging impact infrastructure agenda.
Partners help shape the Summit
The Summit is designed as more than a one-day event. It is a national convening platform for organizations working to strengthen Canada's social impact, workforce, innovation, and measurement infrastructure.
Our partners help ensure the right voices are at the table. They bring sector expertise, community reach, implementation experience, policy knowledge, and practical insight into what it takes to move from good intentions to measurable outcomes.
Whether you are a national nonprofit, foundation network, public policy school, workforce intermediary, industry association, social innovation hub, research centre, or community organization — partnership offers a way to help shape the Summit's agenda and contribute to the broader impact infrastructure movement.
Partners vs. Sponsors
Partners help shape the Summit. They contribute knowledge, networks, community reach, sector expertise, and post-Summit collaboration. Partners are selected based on mission alignment and strategic contribution.
Sponsors help fund and activate the Summit. They provide financial or in-kind support and receive defined visibility, access, brand recognition, and activation benefits.
Five ways to contribute
Shape the National Dialogue
Convening Partners help strengthen the Summit's credibility and reach across sectors. They help convene senior leaders, advise on themes, and contribute to the post-Summit communiqué.
- Advise on Summit themes and roundtable design
- Nominate speakers or senior participants
- Help convene leaders from your sector
- Contribute to the Ottawa Communiqué
- Participate in year-round follow-up
National nonprofits, policy institutes, foundations, academic centres, social innovation networks, workforce development organizations, major ecosystem intermediaries.
Explore Convening PartnershipContribute Research & Insight
Knowledge Partners contribute research, frameworks, data, case studies, or thought leadership that helps deepen Summit content and strengthen the evidence base.
- Develop discussion papers or briefings
- Contribute to panels, labs, or working groups
- Share case studies and evaluation findings
- Help frame measurement or policy questions
- Support post-event reports and communiqué
Universities, think tanks, evaluation bodies, research institutes, public policy schools, data and measurement experts, sector councils.
Become a Knowledge PartnerBring Communities to the Table
Community Partners help ensure that NGOs, community organizations, regional leaders, and underrepresented voices are included in the Summit and its follow-up work.
- Nominate participants from your community
- Share the Summit with your network
- Participate in Implementation Labs
- Help identify barriers to scaling impact
- Support regional or community representation
NGOs, social enterprises, community organizations, newcomer-serving agencies, youth-serving organizations, Indigenous economic development groups, regional intermediaries.
Join as a Community PartnerConnect Talent, Employers & Innovation
Workforce and Innovation Partners connect the Summit to talent development, employer engagement, productivity, AI upskilling, commercialization, and innovation ecosystem priorities.
- Participate in workforce and innovation labs
- Identify employer challenges and opportunities
- Support skills and credentialing conversations
- Contribute commercialization use cases
- Join pilot conversations after the Summit
Employers, chambers of commerce, industry associations, workforce boards, innovation hubs, accelerators, commercialization networks, HR and learning organizations.
Partner on Workforce & InnovationExtend the Conversation
Media and Amplification Partners help extend the Summit conversation before, during, and after the event — amplifying insights, communiqué outcomes, and the broader impact infrastructure movement.
- Share event announcements and updates
- Host interviews with speakers or delegates
- Publish articles, recaps, or podcasts
- Support newsletter or social promotion
- Amplify the post-Summit communiqué
Media outlets, newsletters, podcasts, public affairs platforms, social innovation publications, policy and philanthropy media.
Become a Media PartnerWhat partnership offers
Partners help shape a national conversation at the intersection of public policy, social finance, workforce transformation, community impact, innovation, and measurement. As a partner, your organization can: