Outcomes Fund

Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund

First-of-their-kind investments that improve outcomes in Indigenous communities.

Investing through Indigenous Community Driven Outcomes Contracts (CDOCs).

 

CDOCs allow us to onboard private capital to fully support upfront cost; put solutions in the hands of Indigenous communities; build out Indigenous social enterprises; and engage governments to pay for success.

 

Fund Size
Geographic Focus
Sector Focus
$50M CAD Indigenous Communities of Canada

Climate/Health

50:50 split

 

Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund is a unique, 5-year dual vintage fund that supports transformative outcomes in Indigenous communities:

  • Targeted Indigenous deal pipeline,
  • Average deal size of $2-7M spread across 6-8 investments,
  • Opportunity to re-invest Vintage I principal into Vintage 2 fund,
  • A blended finance structure where majority carried interest in reinvested into the Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation to support implementation in the form of ongoing community and partners relationships.

For investor information contact: Jeff Cyr at jeff@ravencapitalpartners.com

Innovation and Creativity for Addressing Social Problems

Raven Indigenous Capital 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. 

There is a 3-stage process in order to develop innovative social finance solutions with communities;

  1. 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.
  2. Indigenous Solutions Labs: 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.
  3. Social Finance Instruments: Raven designs and deploys social finance instruments engaging and securing outcomes purchasers, investors and partners. 

 

 

Social Impact - Outcomes Financing