Ombrello SolutionsFinancing Healthier Cities

Ombrello Solutions is a not-for-profit organization. It focuses on key societal and climate crises of our cities.

Disappearing Nature & Biodiversity

Increasing Levels of Homelessness

Ombrello Solutions works hand-in-hand with DanSa Capital Innovation to research, design, and structure systemic investment instruments.

Together We Are Building

Civic Infrastructure Bond$250,000,000

Finances a portfolio of urban natural assets that increase cities’ climate resilience, preserve biodiversity and strengthen communities.

Homelessness Bond$100,000,000

Finances permanent homes, nationally across Canada, for individuals and families living in shelters specifically due to evictions.

Our Mission

Our mission is to create innovative financial products that enable institutions and private family offices to address key societal and climate needs. We succeed if core scalable investment capital is allocated towards solutions for Healthier Cities.

Financial Innovation For Healthier Cities

Healthier Cities

We could all imagine a thriving city: one agreed set of criteria is the livable cities index published by the Economist.
city location flag rank index stability healthcare culture & environment education infrastructure
Vienna Austria 1 98.4 100 100 93.5 100 100
Copenhagen Denmark 2 98 100 95.8 95.4 100 100
Melbourne Australia 3 97.7 95 100 95.8 100 100
Sydney Australia 4 97.4 95 100 94.4 100 100

What Enables Cities to be Healthier?

We believe that a City brimming with Civic Assets, where investment and maintenance of Civic Infrastructure is a priority – that city could be described as Healthier. It is a City where every individual has access to attainable housing, green spaces and where most vulnerable members of our society are treated with respect and dignity.

What Is Ombrello Solutions Key Proposal?

Attract private & institutional capital to invest into civic infrastructure at market returns.

Shift ownership of civic assets into Community Endowment Funds.

Enable corporate real estate developers to directly benefit from civic infrastructure in return for a portion of the generated real estate value.

By Succeeding We Accomplish

  • Private and institutional capital flowing, at scale, towards addressing key societal and environmental crisis of our cities.
  • Public funding being liberated to maintain existing urban public infrastructure and to invest into new attainable housing.
  • Community ownership and governance becoming a viable alternative.

How Are We Getting There?

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Step 1

Building two prototype systemic investment instruments that enable $350,000,000 in total capital to be deployed towards acquiring and ecologically restoring a portfolio of eleven nature and biodiversity assets; and acquiring 400 permanent homes for homeless individuals and families who are on the street because of evictions.

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Step 2

Scaling both instruments to include a larger portfolio of civic assets in cities across Canada and a higher number of permanent homes for homeless individuals across urban centres.

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Step 3

Structuring new types of systemic investing instruments that build Healthier Cities and address crises such as lack of attainable housing, food insecurity, need for climate retrofits across every real estate asset class, soil regeneration.

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