About this episode
OUTCOMES FINANCE | INDIGENOUS INVESTMENT | COMMUNITY CAPITAL This episode breaks down how Indigenous communities are accelerating infrastructure, financing clean energy, and reshaping the investment landscape through outcomes-based financing.Guest: Jeffrey Cyr, Founder & Managing Partner, Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds.How do Indigenous Nations deploy housing, energy, and infrastructure faster while delivering investor returns and community impact? Jeffrey Cyr, Founder and Managing Partner of Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds, breaks down how outcomes-based financing moves projects out of government bottlenecks, channels capital directly into communities, creates measurable public savings, and repays investors from those savings with verified returns. Jeffrey has spent 20+ years advancing self-determination from negotiating land rights to designing policy systems, leading the National Association of Friendship Centres, and launching the first globally Indigenous-led VC firm.In this episode, Jeffrey explains:How outcomes contracts pool federal and provincial programs into scalable capital pipelinesWhy blended finance unlocks projects that foundations, private equity, or governments can’t fund aloneHow Raven structures returns (4–7%) while keeping wealth inside communitiesHow geothermal and solar projects lower housing costs, cut emissions, and keep skilled jobs localWhy Canada has become a global leader in Indigenous economic developmentWhere the next wave of investable projects will emerge housing, clean energy, health, diabetes reduction, and workforce developmentYou’ll learn why outcomes financing is more than a funding model it’s a tool for redistributing power, capital, and decision-making back to Indigenous communities.Whether you’re an Indigenous leader, policy-maker, or investor exploring Canada, the UK, the U.S., or Europe, this episode reveals how First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities are moving from surviving to thriving and what opportunities exist for aligned capital.
