WLU Global Citizenship Conference January 2010

“So you want to change the world?...”
Renjie Butalid
January 24, 2010
WLU Global Citizenship Conference 2010

Kristina Lugo, Malawi
Melissa Richer, Brazil
meaning
MajidMirza, Pakistan
Ruby Ku, Botswana

passion

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 in form 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
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Perhaps the issue is much more COMPLEX

SIMPLE
COMPLICATED
COMPLEX
Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed

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

COMPLEX
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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

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
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