New Power People & Capital Data Partnership

Are you investing in all the diverse talents that Canada has to offer?

What opportunities are you missing out in your work, your investments, grants, and gifts? Gain insights into the diversity gaps in your organization and your portfolios.

Be the first to access a mapping of your organization and your portfolio via New Power Labs.

Canada is not unlocking the economic potential of its diversity.

Our society’s growing inequality and systemic discrimination have disproportionate impacts on Indigenous Peoples, communities of colour, women, and other overlooked and underserved communities. Inequity and systemic discrimination is limiting our innovation, prosperity, and impact.

There are major, but invisible disparities in how capital flows and who gets funded. Moving beyond good intentions, we can shift how our capital flows and who participates — working purposefully and collaboratively to address gaps.

Data about the people who deploys capital, and who receives capital, is incomplete and limited — it is still far too difficult to assess our progress on equity over time.

Join our People & Capital Data Partnership!

We will work with you to collect quality disaggregated diversity data that helps you understand your organization, and your portfolio of grantees and investees. The data and insights will help you flow capital more equitably, expanding your impact and contribution to solving Canada’s challenges.

WHY DISAGGREGATED DATA?

Disaggregated data breaks compiled information into more diminutive units to explain underlying trends and patterns. It provides us with sub-categories of details, such as ethnicity, gender, education, etc.

By collecting more granular data, we can better understand the challenges and barriers that specific groups (e.g., women, Indigenous communities) face.

Many organizations rely on crude, visual ways to identify their team’s demographics, which can be misleading and do not capture non-visible attributes (e.g., disability, sexual orientation). This can obscure internal challenges or opportunities to improve equity, diversity and inclusion. 

We will collect self-reported disaggregated demographic data from team members of capital deployers and recipients on:

WHY SELF-REPORTED DISAGGREGATED DATA?

  • Age

  • Gender identity

  • Sexual identity

  • Indigenous identity

  • Ethnicity

  • Abilities

  • Languages

  • Education

  • Citizenship Status

All participating organizations will receive

Organization People Diversity Report

A snapshot of the diversity of your board, leadership, staff, and the diversity of who influences capital flows - impact investment deals, grants, and gifts.

Source Datasets

The aggregated data tables used to generate the reports. 

New Power Members will also receive

  • Comparison of your organization’s diversity with the diversity of region you support or operate in.

  • Comparison of your organization’s diversity with other organizations participating in this initiative.

Organization People Diversity Report

  • A snapshot of your capital flows — impact investment deals, grants, and gifts, and the diversity of leadership of organizations and companies in your portfolio.

  • Comparison of your portfolio organizations’ diversity with the diversity of regions you support or operate in.

  • Comparison of your portfolio organizations’ diversity with other organizations participating in this initiative.

Portfolio Diversity Report

  • Anonymized data cubes used to generate the reports, including all participating organizations.

Disaggregated Datasets

We will collect people and capital flow data securely from you and your portfolio organizations in five steps.

  • We will inform you of the complete process. We will address any questions you have, and let you know what to expect every step of the way. We will share with you how we will protect the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality of your organization.

  • You will share contact information of your board members, leadership, staff, and other relevant people. You will also share your portfolio of impact investments, gifts, and grants, along with the contact information of the organizations in your portfolio. We will work with you to communicate the data collection with your organization and the organizations in your portfolio.

  • Working with you, we will engage the organizations in your portfolio to inform them of the complete process.

  • We will email and invite board members, leadership, and staff in your organizations and the organizations in your portfolio, to complete a diversity survey. This survey will take 5 minutes to complete.

  • Data will be presented in a visual and easy-to-read report that gives you an overview of the diversity of your team and the organizations in your portfolio.