Practical Tools and Templates

This listing of Social Purpose Real Estate Terminology was developed by the SPRE Collaborative with support from UBC School of Regional and Community Planning and Mitacs.

This Literature Review was completed in 2020, in preparation for the Collaborative’s update and expansion of “RENT - LEASE – OWN: Understanding the Real Estate Challenges Impacting the Nonprofit/Social Purpose Sector”. SPRE is grateful to the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning and Mitacs...

A new program by VEC, businesses and organizations can sign up for Industrial Concierge Services to connect to opportunities for industrial space-sharing in Vancouver.

from the awesome folks at the Northern California Loan Fund, this new website offers templates, tools and resources for non profit real estate and financial management

"Creating and preserving affordable housing and other community-owned assets in Canada is more critical than ever given the rapid escalation of real estate costs and the relative stagnation of wages in major urban markets. This makes the need for the non-profit sector to increase its real estate...

The social impact resulting from all aspects of architecture must be taken into consideration for any work. This guide fill a gap in design knowledge around issues relating to universal washroom and change rooms in community and recreation facilities. The objectives of this document are to provide...

From Ontario: The Ontario Nonprofit Network working with Infrastructure Ontario has created the "Ontario Non Profit Lands Registry", a advance circulation list that enables eligible not-for-profit organizations the chance to access surplus provincinal properties for puchase – before they go on the...