Martin Garber-Conrad

Martin Garber-Conrad is the Chief Executive Officer of Edmonton Community Foundation, the fourth largest community foundation in Canada, with assets of more than $600 million.

After a brief stint designing resource industry training programs, Martin has spent most of his career leading non-profit organizations.  His accomplishments include several social housing projects, restoring/repurposing historic buildings and starting a social enterprise—Kids in the Hall Bistro--in Edmonton’s City Hall.

At the Foundation, Martin’s interests include their ten-year old Social Enterprise Fund which has successfully loaned $50 million to more than 70 charities and non-profits and takes a leadership role in the developing social finance movement in Canada.

Martin’s current passion and preoccupation is Edmonton’s new community development corporation, in response to the End Poverty Edmonton strategy.

Edmonton Community Foundation 
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