Our aim is to leverage our knowledge, expertise and lived experience and work alongside refugees and refugee-serving organizations to build up their capacity and achieve meaningful impact.
Our approach is to work alongside partners to ensure the most effective program design and delivery. We are always seeking to develop opportunities in Canada and globally with refugee-led organizations, refugee-serving organizations, funders, institutional investors, governments and refugee hosting communities.
Refugees are active contributors to Canada’s entrepreneurial economy yet face additional barriers to launching and growing their businesses. Jumpstart is developing a Refugee Impact Fund, a Canadian first!
The Fund is an emerging investment fund that will remove barriers and provide access to capital for refugee-led and refugee-inclusive businesses across Canada.
The Fund is currently in the development stage, with support from 3 institutional investors, and aims to go to market in 2027.
Jumpstart is actively exploring global opportunities to support the development of entrepreneurship programming, alongside local refugee-led organizations, governments, funders, and refugee hosting communities.
We invite you to connect with us to explore opportunities in your region of the world.
Marsa aims to support entrepreneurs in Syria’s coastal region of Latakia. Marsa is an entrepreneurship hub that bundles shared infrastructure, specialist practitioners, and access to market and capital to move micro and small enterprises from survival to growth. It brings host community members, returnees, and displaced entrepreneurs together around shared economic activity, creating the environment for success for displaced Syrian entrepreneurs.
Marsa has received seed funding and is currently in the market research stage, with expected launch in late 2026.
Jumpstart is actively exploring global opportunities to support the upskilling of refugees globally, so they can thrive economically in their host communities while increasing their access to labour mobility pathways. We invite you to connect with us to explore opportunities in your region of the world.
Through the EMPP program, we facilitate Canadian employers in diversifying their workforce and bridging their talent shortages by offering a distinctive immigration route to hire skilled refugees from abroad.
As a Trusted Referral Partner of the Canadian Government, we are committed to bridging the gap between Canadian employers and globally displaced talent, while offering refugees a durable solution by relocating them to Canada permanently.
Refugee labour mobility supports refugees and displaced people across the world to access employment immigration pathways, while enabling employers to fill critical roles. Jumpstart combines proven delivery in Canada with global leadership to make these pathways practical, ethical, and scalable.
R-SEAT is an international initiative working to enhance the effectiveness of global refugee responses by co-designing mechanisms to amplify refugee leadership ecosystems and increase the participation of refugees at state levels in a meaningful, sustainable, and transformative way.
Jumpstart provides back-of-house logistics to R-SEAT so that it can focus on pursuing its work and avoid managing day-to-day organizational administration.
