Opportunities To Create Social Change

Opportunities to create Social Change
Understanding the process of transformative social change and how young people can become a part of the movement
Renjie Butalid, SiG@Waterloo - July 16, 2009

Young people are catalysts for transformative change
"Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.”
- Kofi Annan

Greenpeace

PASSION

MEANING
My friend Kristina Lugo, recent BMath University of Waterloo grad in Malawi – July 2009

Social Enterprise

Is getting involved the answer?
Or is it only part of the solution?
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161,000
Registered charities and nonprofit organizations in Canada. Source: National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations

$112 billion
In revenues generated from voluntary sector; $9 billion inform of donations. Source: Imagine Canada – Looking into and out for Canada’s nonprofits

2 billion
Hours of volunteer time
Source: Imagine Canada – Looking into and out for Canada’s nonprofits

2 million
Full-time equivalent workers
Source: Imagine Canada – Looking into and out for Canada’s nonprofits

And yet we still see many problems in the world today
Photo courtesy:https://townipproject.wikispaces.com/file/view/Homelessdude.jpg

Perhaps the issue is much more COMPLEX

SIMPLE
Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed
Photo courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginnerobot/3245408401/

COMPLICATED
Photo courtesy: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr

COMPLEX
Photo courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/novecentino/979303548/

Hamilton Roundtable for
Poverty Reduction
Making Hamilton the Best Place to Raise a Child
www.hamiltonpoverty.ca

Social Innovation
Initiative Product Process
Social System
profoundly changes
Basic Routines
Resource & Authority Flows or Beliefs
The Social Innovation Dynamic – Frances Westley, SiG@Waterloo

Social Innovation
Recognizable stages and phases
Linked to dynamics
RESILIENT
systems

Social Innovation
Broad Impact
Durability
Scale

Routine Change
Conservation
K
Foreloop
Growth
r
Steve Carpenter, srcarpen@wisc.edu

Turbulent Change
Release

Backloop
Reorganization

Steve Carpenter, srcarpen@wisc.edu

2. The idea is developed
4. An “established” innovation
Stored
Released
Variety
Sameness
3. The idea is launched as a product, process or organization
1. An idea is born

The birth, growth, destruction and renewal of a forest
courtesy Brenda Zimmerman (bzimmerman@schulich.yorku.ca)
Little CAPITAL STORED Much
1
Creative Destruction
Weak CONNECTEDNESS Strong

2
Renewal/Exploration
Reorganization or Exploration
1
Release or Creative Destruction

3
Exploitation

4
Conservation
3
Exploitation

2. The idea is developed
4. An “established” innovation
Stored
Released
Variety
Sameness
3. The idea is launched as a product, process or organization
1. An idea is born

Changing the questions changes the focus
Changes what is ‘analyzed’
Changes what is seen as possible or impossible
Frances Westley, SiG@Waterloo

www.myidea.uwaterloo.ca
Next Steps

Renjie Butalid
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