1. Of Starlings & Social
Change:
the non-profit sector as an
innovating structure
mstruthers@ryerson.ca

2. Canadian NPO Sector
161,000 nonprofit organizations
• about 50% are charities
+ grass roots organizations
• about 30/1000 people

3. Two frames on human organizing – people
working together to make change

4. Two frames on human organizing – people
working together to make change

6. “Order for Free” Stuart Kauffman

7. Evolution in Organizing
Yaneer Bar-Yam: New England Complex Systems Institute

8. If you want to
change the
world…
you have to
change the
metaphor
Joseph Campbell