These are the slides from our third virtual session of our CEESA Education for Social Innovation cohort!

1. Welcome to Session Three
Refining Our Focus

3. A Discussion
Why is documentation of our
projects important?
Storytelling and Impact Evaluation
Source: Logic Model Workbook
http://www.innonet.org/client_docs/File/logic_model_workbook.pdf

4. “YES we have ideas, hopes & dreams
...but we don’t have any money!?”

5. What can we achieve with
what we already have?
Do we recognize our assets?

6. Sometimes these decisions
feel like...
...

7. Resource Mapping / Asset Mapping
is a form of creating your budget
How do you assess what resources
you have and what you need?

8. Mapping Assets in Your Community
● A map or inventory of the resources, skills and talents of
individuals, associations and organisations
Source: Brighter Futures Together, http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk
● Discovery and assembly of links between different parts
of the community, associations, and agencies
● Used to revitalise relationships and mutual support,
rebuild community neighbourhoods, and rediscover
collective power

9. Resource Mapping
can stimulate &
motivate change
Source: Brigher Futures Together, Assets Diagram http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2012/02/assets-diagram-2-large.jpg

10. Asset Mapping Exercise Individuals
(within team
including
students &
teacher(s)
School Clubs
& Associations
Assets of our
School Networks
of Organizations
& Partners

11. Social Innovation Project Canvas

13. Sample Pitch
Sample Pitch: http://tdsb.tiged.org/innovation/gallery/view/4336355

14. How Not to Pitch
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billionaire/

15. Get the Word Out
What skills do social innovators need to make their projects
visible?
How have you fostered interest and excitement within your
school and community?

16. Making a Pitch
A Quick Review
Pitch Perfect, the anatomy of a pitch...
1. The need or issue you’re addressing
2. Describe your mission and how it will be accomplished
3. Identify how your offering is different from others
4. Share the value of your project, or why they should care
5. Close with the call to action
Source: Leading Community, Pitch Perfect, Sprout Self on
TIGedhttp://sproutself.tiged.org/sproutself/assignments/?id=1044061

17. A Discussion
How might we evaluate and document the impact of our social innovation projects?
Storytelling and Impact Evaluation
Source: A Developmental Evaluation Primer, Jamie A. A.
Gamble, The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation,
http://www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/assets/Media%20Library/P
ublications/A%20Developmental%20Evaluation%20Primer%2
0-%20EN.pdf

18. Posting Your Project Page
http://socinn.tiged.org/ceesa2015/projects/
Follow-up: Post your project description to the TIGed virtual classroom
Project Page
Students to pitch the idea in 30 seconds or less, record & upload

19. Thank you for your participation!