Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund
Making first-of-their-kind investments that improve outcomes in Indigenous communities.
At Raven, we believe that transformational change and outcomes require rethinking how we address social problems. Our outcomes finance model places Indigenous communities, knowledge, and values in the drivers seat.
The Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund offers investors the opportunity to deploy capital to scale meaningful social programs and improve outcomes in Indigenous communities, while allowing government to only pay for what works. Indigenous outcomes-based financing deals, what we call CDOCs or Community-Driven Outcomes Contracts and what others refer to as pay-for-success projects or pay-for-performance projects, align social impacts and financial returns.
Innovation and Creativity for Addressing Social Problems
Raven Indigenous Captial Partners provides the expertise to work with Indigenous communities and enterprises to develop innovative financial tools that address critical social, financing, and policy barriers. These tools have great potential for the beneficiary communities to scale effective solutions as well as offer investors and outcomes purchasers' new pathways to deploy capital and achieve robust social outcomes.
Our collective experience working in and engaging with Indigenous communities is that current funding models and approaches have failed to produce lasting change or impact. Indigenous communities face the most pressing social and economic problems in Canada and billions of dollars of annualized spending by the state has largely failed to achieve better outcomes. At Raven, we believe that in order to make lasting change we have to rethink how we approach social problems and we have to center Indigenous communities and Indigenous knowledge in that approach. That is the only way we can drive solutions that work at scale.
Clear Solutions for Community Driven Outcomes
Raven Indigenous Capital Partners works with Indigenous communities and enterprises to develop innovative financial tools. These tools have great potential for the beneficiary communities to scale effective solutions as well as offer investors and outcomes purchasers’ new pathways to deploy capital and achieve robust social outcomes.
Raven undertakes a 3-stage process in order to develop innovative social finance solutions with communities;
- Deep Community Engagement: As an Indigenous Social finance intermediary we work with Indigenous social enterprises and communities, to identify critical barriers and build on what works.
- Indigenous Solutions Lab: Raven builds and deploys Indigenous Solutions Lab processes that take communities, experts, outcomes buyers and investors through a design to execution process leading to social finance solutions (business case) that can be brought to market.
- Social Finance Instruments: Raven designs and deploys social finance instruments engaging and securing outcomes purchasers, investors and partners.
At the core of this process, we maintain a focus on investment readiness and cost-effectiveness in the development of Community-Driven Outcomes Contracts. Currently, Raven has developed a first-of-its-kind Community-Driven Outcomes Contract for geothermal installation on-reserve in Manitoba. The delivery agent for the contract is Aki Energy Inc., an award-winning Indigenous social enterprise. Raven is currently running Indigenous Solutions Labs that focus on achieving better health outcomes and in clean energy solutions across Canada. Raven continues to seek investors for this as well as other solutions finance opportunities.
Social Impact - Outcomes Financing