Quadrangle NL

building better community for 2SLGTBQIA+ and all - Looks Like Social Enterprise

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Quadrangle NL - where community happens

In this episode of Looks Like Social Enterprise, Quadrangle NL's Executive Director, Charlie Murphy, joins co-hosts Kim Todd of Guide to the Good and Nicole Dawe of Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador to share the great work and future social enterprise plans of Quadrangle NL.

Video:  Looks Like Social Enterprise - Quadrangle NL

September 2023, St. John's / Edited by Kim Todd & Ryan Young / Produced by Guide to the Good

Quadangle NL brings together support for the 2SLGTBQIA+ community

Quadrangle has a vision to establish Newfoundland and Labrador as an inclusive, welcoming community regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, economic status and other diverse backgrounds. 

Quad NL received a grant through the Investment Readiness Fund to assess opportunities to develop its community hub and social enterprise options.

In this stream, Charlie talks about how Quadangle NL brings together support for the 2SLGTBQIA+ community.  There are so many ways.  

The Quad’s safe community space. The existing space is new and excellent. Located at St. James United Church on Elizabeth Avenue in St. John’s, the Quad is space for people to ‘be’, hang out, participate in events, and it’s an organizational headquarters for Quadrangle NL.  This space and programs exist with support from the The Jacob Puddister Memorial Foundation , Bell Let’s Talk , RBC Foundation, Monte Carlo, and United Way.

Social enterprise in the 2SLGTBQIA+ community

But the vision is on a larger scale, and it ties in the social enterprise opportunity:  Quad space that does all of the above and includes space for people of the 2SLGTBQIA+ to rent and run their businesses - hair salon, law, services… you name it.

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The Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is a Grower with Guide to the Good.  Looks Like Social Enterprise is a project of CFNL and Guide to the Good featuring recipients of the Investment Readiness Program (IRP) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Funded by the Government of Canada, the IRP supports social purpose organizations as they contribute to solving pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges across Canada. Its goal is to help social purpose organizations build their capacity to participate in Canada’s growing social finance market and prepare themselves to be able to take on investments. 

Funding for the Investment Readiness Program is provided by the Government of Canada and facilitated by the Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of the Community Foundations of Canada network.