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Legal status

Pleiades Housing Alliance is a federally incorporated non-profit under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, Corporation No. 1460040-1. Our CRA charitable registration has been filed and is not yet granted, so we cannot issue charitable tax receipts at this time.

Where we are today

The founding Board is seated and the organization is building its partner network. The first home is still unbuilt, and PHA has not yet completed a funding cycle. Communities in active dialogue include Scugog Island First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation.

Board and governance

Three seated directors — Chair, Treasurer and Secretary — bringing architecture and construction management, chartered professional accounting and corporate governance. As the alliance grows, PHA is committed to expanding the board to hold a majority of Indigenous directors. Governance details.

Community-led by design

Every project begins with a formal Joint Venture or Memorandum of Understanding with the partnering community's leadership. At the point of deployment, decision-making belongs to the partner community: homes are built on Nations' terms, not delivered to them.

Financial controls

• Dedicated campaign accounts with dual signatory requirements, so no single person can move donated funds alone.
• Spending authority by amount: the Executive Director may authorise under $100,000; a board majority is required between $100,000 and $350,000; anything above $350,000 needs the full board.
• We build only on secured capital and take on no debt.
• A commitment to an independent annual audit, with results published to founding partners and the public, and to disclosing financial statements and senior leadership compensation.
• A target of 80–90% of project capital spent directly on building homes, with administration and overhead held to 10–20%.

The funding model

Government programmes fund construction, but not the work that has to happen before a shovel goes in the ground. Philanthropic capital pays for that preparatory work, and our target is for each philanthropic dollar to unlock up to five dollars in available government housing funding, subject to programme eligibility, approvals and funding availability. It is a target we are building toward, not a result we have already delivered. How the grant engine works.

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