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| 1986 |  |
SEDI is born and, along with the YMCA Canada, begins to introduce the concept of self-employment training for low-income people to Canada. |
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| 1990 | Employment and Immigration Canada responds to SEDI's advocacy by establishing the Minister's Advisory Group on Self-Employment, the catalyst for the national Self-Employment Employment Benefits (SEB) program. |
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| 1992 | SEDI partners with the City of Toronto, Government of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Labour to develop and launch the first and largest urban Self-Employment Employment Benefits (SEB) program. | |
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| 1994 | SEDI succeeds in convincing the province of Ontario to reform welfare regulations pertaining to self-employment. | |
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| 1995 | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) acknowledges SEDI's expertise in self-employment. | |
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| 1995 | SEDI is the first Canadian group to provide capacity building in self-employment for women through the unique Developing Enterprising Women's Initiatives (DEWI) project. | |
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| 1997 | SEDI introduces the concept of asset building for the poor to Canada. | |
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| 1999 | SEDI contributes recommendations to the Prime Minister's Task Force on Youth Entrepreneurship. | |
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| 2000 | In partnership with Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), 10 communities from across the country, RBC, and the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), SEDI launches learn $ave, the largest demonstration of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) in the world. | |
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| 2001 | SEDI's youth initiatives are short-listed for an innovation award by the Peter F. Drucker Foundation. | |
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| 2002 | SEDI participates in a Russian-Canadian Women and Labour Market Reform initiative which produces breakthrough results. |
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| 2002 | SEDI is commissioned by Canada Mortgage and Housing (CMHC) and the National Secretariat on Homelessness (NSH) to undertake a national consultation on the feasibility of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) concerning people living in transitional housing and access to affordable housing. | |
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| 2002 | Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), the Center for Social Development (CSD) and SEDI co-sponsor the first international IDA Learning Conference. | |
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| 2003 | SEDI develops a national model to foster economic self-sufficiency among youth at-risk to be tested by the government of Canada. |
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| 2003 | CMHC publishes SEDI's positive findings derived from the national consultation about using Individual Development Accounts to offer greater access to affordable housing. | |
| 2004 | SEDI launches the Independent Living Account (ILA) demonstration project in Edmonton, Toronto and Fredericton. The project has community-based administrators and private and public sector funders. The NSH provided financial support for research and evaluation, which was undertaken by Ryerson University. | |
| 2005 | SEDI creates a financial capability education curriculum for youth and people in shelters. | |
| 2005 | SEDI is commissioned by CMHC to design a national demonstration project that includes 8 to 10 sites and 2000 accounts for low-income Canadians in order to help them save to buy a home. |
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| 2008 | SEDI's Independent Living Account (ILA) program receives the Vital Ideas Award from the Toronto Community Foundation for its lasting impact on the community. |
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| 2008 | The Financial Consumer Agency, the Joint Forum of Financial Market Regulators and SEDI co-host Reaching Higher: Canadian Conference on Financial Literacy in Montreal. At the sold-out, international conference, SEDI calls upon the federal government to establish an independent, multi-sector task force to develop a national strategy on financial literacy for Canada. |
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| 2008 | SEDI launches the Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy. A division of SEDI, the CCFL is dedicated to helping build and develop financial literacy among low-income Canadians. It is the only Canadian centre created to deliver easy-to-use money management training for low-income groups through nonprofit community organizations. |
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| 2009 | The federal government establishes the Task Force on Financial Literacy recommended by SEDI in 2008. SEDI becomes a strategic advisor to the task force, supporting its work to create a national strategy on financial literacy for Canada. | |
| 2010 | TD Bank Financial Group announces unprecedented funding of $14.5 million to SEDI for financial literacy. Funds go to SEDI's Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy and to the new TD Financial Literacy Grant Fund. A joint initiative with SEDI, the grant fund is the first of its kind in Canada and distributes millions in grants to community groups for financial literacy training. |
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