Conference Board of Canada Social Impact Report 2023
Leveraging its long history in gathering and analyzing program and lending data from Indigenous Financial Institutions (IFIs), the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA) engaged the Conference Board of Canada (CBoC), the foremost applied research institution in Canada, to assess core data gathered during the five years from 2016-17 to 2020-21. This data set represents a sizable share of the IFI ecosystem’s lending and funding activities during that period, but it is not exhaustive. The CBoC Report set out to identify and measure the crucial role that IFIs and their national association play in driving Indigenous economic development, wealth creation, and improving social outcomes for Indigenous peoples in the face of numerous systemic barriers.