Michelle Baldwin is focused on reimagining capital and technology for community-led futures. Currently, Michelle is collaborating with social impact projects including as a Senior Associate with Equity Cubed, where they provide fractional executive leadership to social innovators and early-stage startups, helping them maximize both social and financial returns.
Previously, Michelle served as Senior Advisor, Transformation at Community Foundations of Canada, where she worked at the intersection of capital, philanthropy, and systems change – unlocking potential for futures where everyone belongs. She is now deeply exploring how emerging technologies including AI, Web3, and blockchain—can redistribute power, reimagine philanthropy, and shift systems to center community agency.
Michelle is also on faculty at Huron University College in the Governance, Leadership, and Ethics program, where she brings a focus on tech, social impact and systems stewardship.
As former Executive Director of Pillar Nonprofit Network, Michelle led work to amplify the positive impact of individuals, organizations, and social enterprises. She was instrumental in co-founding Innovation Works, a collaborative space for social innovation, and VERGE Capital, a social finance platform serving Southwestern Ontario.
Michelle is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Wasan Network, and a recipient of the YMCA Women of Excellence Award in Business and the Professions.
You can often find Michelle outdoors collecting beach glass, hiking, biking, snowshoeing—or joyfully playing and being a big kid with her granddaughter.