Learn more about Innoweave, an initiative of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and Social Innovation Generation, that provides community sector leaders with new tools and processes to affect large-scale change. Learn about the webinars, workshops, coaching and grants that Innoweave offers to help you implement approaches such as developmental evaluation, social enterprise, social finance, impact and strategic clarity, collective impact, outcomes finance and cloud computing.

1. Intro to Innoweave’s Practical Tools
for Social Innovation

2. Aaron Good
Managing Director for Social Innovation
J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
TODAY’S PRESENTERS
Doug Brodhead
Program Officer at Innoweave
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

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6. WHAT IS CANADAHELPS?
• A public charitable foundation and registered charity.
• Through CanadaHelps.org, anyone can donate to any registered
Canadian charity online.
• We have facilitated over $400 million in charitable donations
online since our launch in 2000.
• 14,500 charities use us to collect donations and fundraise online.
• Over 850,000 Canadians have donated through CanadaHelps.
• For donors, CanadaHelps is a one-stop-shop for giving. For
charities, CanadaHelps is an online fundraising solution that is
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WELCOME TO GIVING MADE SIMPLE!

7. Introduction to Innoweave
Webinar with Canada Helps
June 25, 2014

8. J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
• 75 year-old national family foundation
• Member of the Social Innovation Generation
(SiG) network
• National focus with international reach
• Launched Innoweave a year and a half ago

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Current challenges…
• Slow growth economy
• Aging population, declining ratio of working
population versus retirees
• All provinces & federal government facing
deficit budgets
• More competitive fundraising environment
• Slow growing charitable donor base
• New attitudes/expectations among donors
• New terms for federal Gs & Cs: performance
based, leverage private funding, more
‘accountability’, more focus on outcomes

10. … and emerging opportunities
• Focus on outcomes / solving problems
• New approaches
• Impact
• Funding/financing
• Partnerships/communications
• Rapid iteration, rigour, and learning

12. 1. Learn about each tool: web/webinars
Basic web info for NFPs on each tool Recorded webinars (SE 101)

13. 2. Select: Should we explore…?
Ability to invest time/energy PLUS
For Social Enterprise
• Clear impact goals
• Product or service
• Business skills
For Developmental Evaluation
• Clear initiative
• Questions on how to develop it
• Ability/resources to adapt as you go
For Cloud Computing
• Clear goals
• Fit with current systems
• Staff skills/willingness
Self Assessment Tools
• 5 questions
• Feedback

14. 3. Workshops: teams develop a plan
• Leadership teams
• Well prepared
• Discussion of your issues
• Leading to next steps
• Social Enterprise feasibility /
business plan
• DE evaluation scope of work
• Cloud Computing project
goals and criteria

15. 4/5. Coaching to test and refine the plan
• Network of >100 Coaches registered on innoweave.ca
o Content expertise, knowledge of sector, and coaching skills
o Selected by organizations
o Refine scope of work / develop contract together
• Small grants for organizations to hire coaches
o Regular January/July deadlines
o Clear idea
o Clear questions that you
need to answer

16. Upcoming Fall Workshops
• Impact and Strategic Clarity in various locations
• Collective Impact in Vancouver, Halton/Burlington, Toronto, and Victoria
w/various partners
• Scaling Impact nationally by web
• Social Enterprise in Calgary and Ottawa w/Enp Alberta/Trico Foundation
• Social Finance in Toronto w/MaRS
• Developmental Evaluation in Winnipeg w/United Way Winnipeg
• Cloud Computing in Montreal w/Pilote Numerique
• Constructive Engagement in Ottawa, Toronto and Calgary w/Carleton,
Sustainability Network and Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations
We will be adding additional webinars and workshops over the coming months
so please visit www.innoweave.ca or contact us at info@innoweave.ca

17. Ways to get involved
Impact
and
Strategic
Clarity
Social
Finance
Social
Enterprise
Developmental
Evaluation
Cloud
Computing
Collective
Impact
Outcomes
Finance
Constructive
Engagement
Learn
about
approaches
Workshops
Coaching /
funding
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Connect with a coach
Access funding to hire a coach
Contact info@innoweave.ca to request a meeting to explore options
Host a workshop for your network or grantees
Visit Innoweave.ca to explore modules and use self assessment
Share information and/or set up a presentation for your network
Attend a workshop

18. Thank You
Innoweave.ca
info@innoweave.ca

19. MyCharityConnects.org
Educational and training opportunities
through MyCharityConnects
www.mycharityconnects.org

20. UPCOMING WEBINARS
www.mycharityconnects.org/webinars
Raise More Money with Effective Calls to Action
by guest speaker Brian Abracen
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Time: 2:00-3:00PM Eastern Time
3 Ways to Increase Your Exposure on
CanadaHelps
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Time: 2:00-3:00PM Eastern Time

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