September 2025 Goal: Raise $6500 and Secure 3 Advisors
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September 2025 Goal: Raise $6500 and Secure 3 Advisors ***
The Sharing and Circular Innovation Society (SCIS) is building a community-driven platform to enable residents to propose and launch shared infrastructure projects - like tool libraries, libraries of things, and makerspaces.
We’re building this platform in phases over the next 12 months to grow our impact. See the timeline below for how you can help in each phase.
Community Bond Accelerator
SCIS secures $6500 and three advisors to enter Tapestry Capital’s Community Bond Accelerator, laying the groundwork for a scalable financing model for shared infrastructure.
How to support at this stage:
Beta Web Platform Development
We begin to design and build the first beta version of the SCIS engagement platform, which will allow residents to propose and support shared infrastructure projects online.
How to support at this stage:
COMING SOON
Community Site Sourcing
Through our network of tool libraries, repair cafés, makerspaces, and partners, we crowdsource up to 50 potential project sites to demonstrate community demand across Canada.
How to support at this stage:
COMING SOON
Community Bond Raise
We launch a portfolio-style community bond raise, inviting investors to back multiple community-driven projects at once through a proven financing mechanism.
How to support at this stage:
COMING SOON
Fund Allocation & Development
The SCIS Board reviews community demand, site readiness, and local partnerships, and allocates raised funds to launch the first wave of projects.
How to support at this stage:
COMING SOON
Sept 2025
OCT 2025
jan 2026
feb 2026
may 2026
Community Support
“Makerspaces empower people to learn, create, and collaborate. With the SCIS platform, communities will have a pathway to establish new makerspaces and expand access to creative, sustainable innovation.”
– Derek Gaw, Makerlabs
“Our dilemma is not fundamentally the lack of innovative ideas or energy, it is harnessing that energy and connecting those ideas so they can build toward something synergistically. Too often motivated individuals and good ideas are siloed, spinning themselves out and exhausting resources before they really get started.
I see SCIS providing the much-needed connective tissue that will enable more folks, in more communities to find each other and the resources they need more easily - ultimately lowering the individual effort required and leveraging greater collective power to bring circular projects to life!”
– Kami Bruner, Repair x Reuse Washington
“The new sharing economy infrastructure has changed how we connect — it feels like our resources finally work for everyone, not just a few.”
– Makerlabs, Vancouver, BC