Our Contributions
At Urban Matters, our vision is to build inclusive communities where everyone has opportunity to thrive. To do this, we need to invest in people and remove barriers that prevent them and their communities from reaching their full potential.
In launching our company, we intentionally positioned ourselves as both a business and an investor in healthy people and communities. We incorporated our company as a Community Contribution Company, one of Canada’s first. Every year, we make strategic contributions to community-led initiatives that apply innovative thinking and evidence-based strategies to target gaps in our social systems. Since 2016, we have contributed a total of $625,000 back into communities.
Our Contributions
At Urban Matters, our vision is to build inclusive communities where everyone has opportunity to thrive. To do this, we need to invest in people and remove barriers that prevent them and their communities from reaching their full potential.
In launching our company, we intentionally positioned ourselves as both a business and an investor in healthy people and communities. We incorporated our company as a Community Contribution Company, one of Canada’s first. Every year, we make strategic contributions to community-led initiatives that apply innovative thinking and evidence-based strategies to target gaps in our social systems. Since 2016, we have contributed a total of $625,000 back into communities.

What is a Community Contribution Company (CCC)?
A CCC is a hybrid incorporation model that supports companies in creating positive social outcomes through business. This means we operate much like any other business, but with a mandate to contribute 60 percent of our profits back into communities. It’s a sustainable business model that benefits the community. Imagine what our world would look like if more businesses were structured like this!
What is a Community Contribution Company (CCC)?
A CCC is a hybrid incorporation model that supports companies in creating positive social outcomes through business. This means we operate much like any other business, but with a mandate to contribute 60 percent of our profits back into communities. It’s a sustainable business model that benefits the community. Imagine what our world would look like if more businesses were structured like this!

Our approach to community contributions
Urban Matters was designed to be both a business and a funder of social development. We create value through consulting and innovation services and then reinvest that value into the systemic issues from which they were derived. Typically, organizations are one or the other: a consultancy that provides services, or a funding agency that pays for them. Our orientation is entirely unique.
We apply the insights that we have learned as conveners and professionals when we think about what and how we contribute back to communities. We ask ourselves: How can our contribution be best utilized to address gaps in the system? How can we target root causes rather than focus on downstream consequences?
Rather than making donations, our focus is to make investments that will spark foundational change. Recognizing our desired trend to continually move the practice toward systems level solutions, we are focused on contributing to truly innovative opportunities that demonstrate what is possible. Increasingly, multi-year investment opportunities are starting to emerge, which allow communities to build upon their mission and effect even more positive impact.
Interested in community investment and partnerships? Let’s chat!
Our approach to community contributions
Urban Matters was designed to be both a business and a funder of social development. We create value through consulting and innovation services and then reinvest that value into the systemic issues from which they were derived. Typically, organizations are one or the other: a consultancy that provides services, or a funding agency that pays for them. Our orientation is entirely unique.
We apply the insights that we have learned as conveners and professionals when we think about what and how we contribute back to communities. We ask ourselves: How can our contribution be best utilized to address gaps in the system? How can we target root causes rather than focus on downstream consequences?
Rather than making donations, our focus is to make investments that will spark foundational change. Recognizing our desired trend to continually move the practice toward systems level solutions, we are focused on contributing to truly innovative opportunities that demonstrate what is possible. Increasingly, multi-year investment opportunities are starting to emerge, which allow communities to build upon their mission and effect even more positive impact.
Interested in community investment and partnerships? Let’s chat!
Annual Reports
As a CCC, we publish an annual public report to disclose our earnings and contributions. Learn more about our growth and how we are looking ahead to create more social impact.
Annual Reports
As a CCC, we publish an annual public report to disclose our earnings and contributions. Learn more about our growth and how we are looking ahead to create more social impact.