Communagir

What Communagir does

Communagir is a Quebec-based non-profit organization founded in 2010 and headquartered at 2187 rue Larivière in Montréal, Canada. It operates as a service and resource organization focused on collective development and social-ecological transition across Quebec territories, serving municipalities and local governments, community organizations and NGOs, and citizens seeking to participate in collective decision-making. Its offering is organized around four interconnected service pillars: training programs (Formations), strategic accompaniment (Accompagnement), knowledge mobilization (Mobilisation de connaissances), and reflections and experimentation (Réflexions et expérimentations).

The organization's core product surface is the "Communagir pour emporter" collection — a library of approximately 80+ facilitation and animation tools (including 1-2-4-all, Troïka, Photolangage, Fishbowl, Cartographie des parties prenantes, Le Carrefour, and others) accessible via the communagir.org website. This is complemented by Clés de compréhension (foundational reference guides), Autres ressources (theoretical frameworks and case studies), and recurring newsletter communications. Collaborative projects include Récits du territoire (climate dialogue through art), CorDesCaps (systemic change capacity), OVSS (strategic watch), and Nous.blogue (territorial storytelling, hosted on Praxis).

Communagir generates revenue through professional services — primarily publicly scheduled training programs, project-based accompaniment contracts, and membership fees — though pricing is not publicly disclosed. It is governed by a Board of Directors and led by General Director Catherine Chouinard, with a distributed team of approximately 10 advisors and specialists. The organization holds no patents, has no subsidiaries, no funding rounds, and no commercial shareholders, operating instead as a mission-driven entity reliant on partnerships, grants, and earned service revenue. Strategic technology infrastructure (such as the Nous.blogue platform) is provided by partner Praxis rather than developed internally.

Name

Communagir

Legal name

Communagir

Website

https://communagir.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Communagir is a Montréal-based non-profit organization founded in 2010 that delivers training, strategic accompaniment, and knowledge mobilization services to municipalities, community organizations, and citizens across Quebec, supporting collective development and social-ecological transition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Training Programs: Communagir generates revenue through offering training programs on collective development, governance, facilitation, citizen participation, and strategic planning. These training programs are offered throughout the year with publicly available programming.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Communagir delivers training programs, strategic accompaniment, knowledge mobilization, and internal research/experimentation services to support collective development and social-ecological transition across Quebec communities. Its work centers on strengthening the capacity and power to act collectively through facilitation tools, foundational reference guides, and participatory projects with municipalities and community organizations. The organization also packages and distributes an in-house library of more than 80 facilitation and animation tools under the "Communagir pour emporter" initiative.

Product overview

Communagir is a Quebec-based organization (Montréal headquarters) that operates as a unified service and resource organization — not a software platform — focused on collective development and social-ecological transition. Its offering is organized around four interconnected service pillars: (1) Formations (training programs in governance, mobilization, facilitation, collective planning, and citizen participation), (2) Accompagnement (strategic accompaniment of collective processes), (3) Mobilisation de connaissances (knowledge capture, connection, and sharing), and (4) Réflexions et expérimentations (internal research and experimentation feeding back into practice). The core product is the Outils d'animation collection — approximately 80+ facilitation tools distributed through the 'Communagir pour emporter' initiative — alongside Clés de compréhension (foundational reference guides), Autres ressources (theoretical frameworks, case studies, and sector-specific guides), and Infolettres (newsletters). Collaborative projects include Récits du territoire (climate dialogue through art), CorDesCaps (systemic change), OVSS (strategic watch), and Nous.blogue (territorial storytelling). Together, these form an integrated ecosystem of capacity-building, facilitation tools, knowledge resources, and participatory projects serving Quebec communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Formations Scheduled training programs and workshops designed to strengthen collective capacity and the power to act of communities and organizations across Quebec, covering governance, mobilization, facilitation, strategic planning, and citizen participation.
• Accompagnement Strategic accompaniment services supporting mobilization processes that lead to structural change while reinforcing the capacity to act of actors in each territory or community served.
• Mobilisation de connaissances Service pillar that captures, connects, and valorizes knowledge to support community development and generate meaningful change, making insights accessible to communities and organizations.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• L'ILOTminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2025L'ILOT participated in the collaborative training initiative 'Savoir coordonner des espaces intersectoriels' organized by CPDC with Communagir and other partners.
• NiskaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2025Niska participated in the collaborative training initiative on intersectoral coordination, bringing expertise in collective development.
• Centre St-PierreminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2025Centre St-Pierre participated in the collaborative training initiative and hosts events for the collective development community.
• DynamominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2025Dynamo participated in the collaborative training initiative bringing expertise in collective facilitation.
• PercolabminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2025Percolab participated in the collaborative training initiative with expertise in participatory approaches.
• PraxiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPraxis hosts the Nous.blogue platform and collaborative spaces for Communagir, providing technology infrastructure for knowledge sharing and community engagement.
• Collectif des partenaires en développement des communautés (CPDC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPDC is a key strategic partner organizing collective initiatives including States General on community development and collaborative training initiatives with multiple organizations.
• Opération veille et soutien stratégiques (OVSS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOVSS is a collaborative project partner with shared staff (Katherine Ruault, Pierre-Élie Hupé, Léna Garreau) working on strategic vigilance and support in community development.
• The Art of Hosting and Harvesting (Montréal)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunagir staff participate in Art of Hosting training programs that inform their facilitation and accompaniment practices.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Imagine Canada: A national Canadian organization supporting the charitable and nonprofit sector through standards, research, and capacity building. Comparable as a sector-level capacity-building organization serving nonprofits and charities, though with much broader organizational scope than Communagir's territorial collective development focus.
• IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation): The leading global professional association advancing the practice of public participation. Covers citizen participation training, certification, and standards with much broader global scale; comparable to Communagir's citizen participation and governance training programs though with a specialization versus IAP2's full-scope certification model.

Others

• Praxis: A Quebec open-source platform that hosts collective intelligence spaces including Communagir's Nous.blogue. Acts as the technology infrastructure enabling Communagir's collaborative publishing and is comparable as an adjacent ecosystem enabler rather than a direct competitor.

Regional players

• Pillar Nonprofit Network: A nonprofit sector support organization in southwestern Ontario providing training, resources, and capacity-building services to community organizations. Comparable service model (training, accompaniment, resources for nonprofits) but serving a different Canadian region than Communagir's Quebec focus.

Direct peers

• Collective Impact Forum: A US-based community of practice advancing collective impact approaches to social change. Directly comparable as both organizations train practitioners, host convenings, and curate tools and resources for cross-sector collaboration on complex community problems.
• Tamarack Institute: A Canadian institute focused on community development, collective impact, and reducing poverty through collaborative practice. Directly comparable to Communagir's mission in building collective capacity for territorial change, with a shared emphasis on accompaniment, training, and knowledge mobilization across Canadian communities.
• Collectif des partenaires en développement des communautés (CPDC): A Quebec-based collective of community development partners and a strategic ally of Communagir. Operates in the same Quebec civic ecosystem with overlapping mandates around community development, intersectoral collaboration, and capacity building, and co-delivers training programs with Communagir.
• Asset-Based Community Development Institute: An international institute promoting Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approaches and training community developers. Directly comparable in promoting participatory facilitation methodologies, training programs, and resource libraries for collective community-led change.
• Chantier de l'économie sociale: Quebec's flagship collective for the social economy, supporting cooperative and nonprofit enterprise development through accompaniment, training, and policy advocacy. Comparable to Communagir in its Quebec-based capacity-building services and focus on collective action and territorial development.
• Territoires innovants en économie sociale et solidaire (TIESS): A Quebec intermediary that builds capacity for social and solidarity economy through knowledge mobilization, training, and applied research. Shares Communagir's profile of producing reference guides, accompaniment tools, and field-level capacity building for community development actors in Quebec.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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