Would your community grieve you?

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Reframe Concepts is a nonprofit, faith and land strategy consultancy. We help mission driven organizations across Canada become indispensable again through impact, sustainability and governance.

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The Real Problem

9,000

Up to 9,000 sacred spaces are likely to close by 2030. That’s about 1/3 of remaining faith centres

$15.5billion

That’s over $15.5billion in annual civic value at risk - from food security to housing access.

Most church boards lack the tools to adapt: zoning, finance, partnerships, community co-design.

The Faith Lands Roundtable

Tuesday, November 17 , 9-3, Metro Community Hub, Kelowna

Thousands of Canadian congregations own land in neighbourhoods that badly need housing, childcare, greenspace, and places to gather. Many of those congregations are shrinking, and the decisions they make about that land in the next few years will last for generations.

The Faith Lands Initiative is a national series of roundtables on what those properties could become. On November 17, civic leaders, funders and faith leaders tell the stories behind projects that worked and ones that stalled. Bring a question about your own building. You’ll leave knowing who’s working to solve it.

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Impact, sustainability and governance, reframed

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Impact strategy

We clarify the outward difference your work makes and find the place where what you offer overlaps a real, present community need. Social impact strategy, theory of change, and a clear reason to exist.

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Sustainability and social enterprise

We help nonprofits and faith organizations move off the grant treadmill toward durable, earned and mission aligned revenue, including social enterprise development and the activation of underused land and assets.

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Governance and renewal

We strengthen boards, leadership and the quiet systems that let a mission last: nonprofit governance, succession, and the organizational renewal that keeps you dependable for the long term.

Five steps that turn a mission into something missed

Do you still know what your community would miss?
Do you meet a need they feel today, not one that has faded?
Does your absence leave a hole no one else can fill?
Is there a future vivid enough that people would mourn it?
Are you reliably, sustainably, dependably there?

Take the Free Grievability Audit

The Grievability Audit.

In one honest conversation, we score your presence across the five dimensions, surface the assets you are already sitting on, and hand you the exact gap between where you stand today and indispensable.

A mirror, not a judgement.

Take the free audit

Sacred spaces, Civic value

By Canadian Urban Institute

The recent Sacred Spaces, Civic Value report from the Canadian Urban Institute confirms what we've known all along: Faith-based properties are essential civic infrastructurean - and many are dangerously close to being lost.

Up to 9,000 sacred spaces may close in Canada by 2030.
That’s over $15.5 billion in annual civic value at risk—from food security to housing access.
Most church boards lack the tools to adapt: zoning, finance, partnerships, community co-design.

Reframe Concepts exists to bridge that gap.

We work alongside faith-based and mission-driven landowners to reposition aging properties as sources of revenue, relevance, and renewed purpose.

If you're a church leader, nonprofit executive, or diocesan decision-maker, we invite you to see what’s possible.

📝 Check Out the CUI report here

What they have said about us

Rev Robin Jacobson, Lead Minister, Trinity United Church

Reframe presented possible options in ways that seem both achievable as well as hugely exciting. It seems at last we as a congregation are beginning to find traction about engaging our way forward. While there is still much to be discerned and finalised, I have great confidence in Reframe’s competence in leading us through what would otherwise be an impossibly daunting task.
Alan Schuler, CEO, SportsShare Technologies

Working with Reframe has been a game-changer for SportsShare. They’ve not only expanded our reach to key stakeholders but have also driven us to sharpen and amplify our community impact. Reframe isn’t just a partner—they’re a crucial catalyst in our journey to achieving greater community change and success.
Rev. Cheryl Perry, Central Okanagan United Church

Through a process that included engagement with the community around us, a congregational survey, reports and a day-long meeting to present its findings, Reframe helped us do the critical work of discovering where our needs and the community’s met and helped us move forward in finding partners to explore next steps with.
Lorraine Richmond, former ED & Leadership Coach

As the former Executive Director of Helping out People Exploited Society, I am delighted to share my wholehearted endorsement of the team at Reframe Concepts… Their work, support elevated operational capacity and was foundational to help the organization better fulfill its mission more effectively.