10C SHARED SPACE
ABOUT
Breakthrough Fund - Sept 2018
Based in Guelph, 10C Shared Space is a non-profit community hub serving as a platform for community changemakers to work, share, and collaborate across sectors. It offers co-working & event-meeting spaces to students, professionals, and researchers as they collectively create local impacts toward the UN SDGs.
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November 2015Launched the community bond investment to begin funding for 10C Shared Space, eventually raising $2.3 million from 140 investors, with 87% being local to Guelph.
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September 2018Became a VERGE Breakthrough Fund investee.
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March 2021Received $899,921 from the federal government’s Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program to launch a collaborative project with Pillar Nonprofit to create long-term sustainable impacts in Guelph and London, known as SDG Cities.
IMPACT
200+
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO CREATE CHANGE
50+
CROSS-SECTOR EMPLOYEES
“This is a great example of a shared, multiple use space that works. I love the variety of business here. I'm fortunate I live close by so I can easily walk, which is the way it should be. I love the old stairs that have been preserved for their historical significance. Thanks for that!”
- 10C member