Incorporated in Ontario in 1993, the Integrated Growth Fund makes job-creating investments in small and medium-sized firms and, in so doing, achieves capital appreciation for shareholders, many of whom are sponsor-affiliated workers. It has four sponsors - the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (with 174,000 members), the Labourers' International Union of North America (with 30,000 Ontario members), the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Workers Union, and the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
DGC Entertainment Ventures Corporation aims to give equity support to new and growth-oriented projects in Canadian entertainment and communications industries that also leads to significant long-term returns for individual investors. The fund was incorporated in Ontario in 1993 and is sponsored by the 1,600-member Directors Guild of Canada.
Sponsored by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (with a membership of 9,600), the Active Communications Growth Fund seeks to invest in job-producing smaller enterprises located chiefly in Canadian entertainment and communications industries. Incorporation of the fund occurred in Ontario in 1994.
The mandate of the Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund is to direct financing to companies in Canada's health sciences sector with emphasis on early stage commercialization of medical research and product innovation. Returns from such equity deals will be passed on to shareholders. Incorporated in Ontario in 1994, the fund is sponsored by the 35,000-member Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada.