The impacts of COVID-19 have highlighted gaps in our social systems and have spurred innovative ideas about ways to build a better economy and country. Prior to the pandemic, the federal government had taken some preliminary steps through the creation of a number of social innovation and social financing initiatives, including the creation of a Social Finance Fund and launch of the Investment Readiness Program through Budget 2019 (see “Another Run at the Social Finance Fund” (March 19, 2019