Keynote – Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud, Senior Advisor on Ending Chronic Homelessness
Enjoy a full brunch spread, great local music, a thought-provoking keynote followed by a Q&A and great prizes!
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Location: The Leaf – Assiniboine Park
Doors Open: 9:30 am
Program Starts: 10:00 am
Business Casual Attire
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Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud is the Premier’s Senior Advisor on Ending Chronic Homelessness, appointed in January 2025. Whitecloud has worked in the homeless serving sector since 2013 and previously worked as the executive director for 1JustCity and from 2021-2024 served as the CEO of Siloam Mission. She holds a master’s degree from Carleton University in political economy and previously taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg. Tessa believes homelessness doesn’t need to exist in our city, our province or our country. Foundational to this belief is the values of the social gospel on which she was raised within the United Church of Canada. She maintains resilience for this work by enjoying snowboarding, cycling, basketball and a lot of cooking up delicious meals for friends and family!
Jubilee Fund is Manitoba’s leading charitable social impact investment fund and is an intermediary of the newly formed Social Finance Fund. Founded in 2000 as a millennial celebration of debt relief, Jubilee Fund works to reduce poverty by providing rent guarantees for marginalized community members as well as loan guarantees, bridge financing and direct loans to social impact projects that reduce poverty.
Through Jubilee Fund, people like you have impacted over 14,000 people plus their future generations with:
- Safe and affordable housing
- Job creation and job readiness training
- Newcomers to Canada support like accreditation transfer and financial training
- Education
- Low-income daycare spot creation
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