Éthel Côté is a social enterprise practitioner and president of two social enterprises in Canada. She presented at the 2nd Social Enterprise World Forum in Melbourne, Australia in 2009. The forum brought together over 1,000 social entrepreneurs and practitioners from around the world to share best practices in supporting the emerging social enterprise sector. Several workshops and networking sessions provided opportunities to foster new partnerships between organizations.
Really effective collaborations between communities and universities are of increasing interest to organizational leaders, policy-makers, students, teachers, and researchers. They have the potential to be a crucial source of social innovation in the 21st century. SiG@Waterloo has worked with five outstanding examples of such collaborations to find out what perspectives, processes and practices allow them to significantly support innovation to emerge, be sustained and to positively affect some of the most challenging problems of our time.
For a list of resources and to hear the webinar associated with this slide-deck, visit http://sigeneration.ca and click through to our Canadian Social Impact Series
Ethel Cote joins Geraldine Cahill for her take on the Social Enterprise World Forum in Melbourne, Australia this year. The exciting part for Ethel was the building global movement around social enterprise.
Presenter: Jorge LeClair
“We’d love to be more tech-savvy; it’s just not in our budget.” Sound familiar? Then you need to attend this session to understand strategies for setting appropriate budgets for your technology needs and projects. Learn tactics and tips on how to secure key technological resources that will help your organization be more efficient. Register now to discuss trends, challenges, and opportunities to make the most of what you’ve got! In our current economic climate, you can’t afford to miss out on this session!
Abcd Workshop on Changing Cities One Neighbourhood at a time, in partnership ...Cormac Russell
Presentation about ABCD around the world and how using Asset Based Principles some local Governments have changed the way they engage with Citizens and approach community development.
Module 5 social enterprise - a key integration and progression toolcaniceconsulting
Having come through Modules 1-3, you should be coming to this module enthused and inspired, bursting with ideas of how you can improve your Interface Community. In this module we will look at social entrepreneurship in more detail as a key integration and progression tool.
Accelerating the Innovation Agenda in Rural and Urban CommunitiesDon Duval
Communities around the world are seeking to understand how to foster innovation and drive sustained economic and social prosperity in their region. Don will highlight the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving job and wealth creation and the role regional innovation centres play in ensuring on-going economic competitiveness. In addition to highlighting international examples of vibrant innovation hubs, Don will also discuss two unique examples from Sudbury that not only have made a significant impact in supporting the City’s innovation agenda, but can also serve as a model for other communities in identifying and capitalizing on their innovation potential.
Marketing & The Business "Stuff" - What Social Enterprises Need to Know!Olwen Dawe
Presentation given to the "Fostering Community Enterprise Resilience in Roscommon" conference, March 2013. An overview on the role of business techniques in social and community organisation's sustainability.
Really effective collaborations between communities and universities are of increasing interest to organizational leaders, policy-makers, students, teachers, and researchers. They have the potential to be a crucial source of social innovation in the 21st century. SiG@Waterloo has worked with five outstanding examples of such collaborations to find out what perspectives, processes and practices allow them to significantly support innovation to emerge, be sustained and to positively affect some of the most challenging problems of our time.
For a list of resources and to hear the webinar associated with this slide-deck, visit http://sigeneration.ca and click through to our Canadian Social Impact Series
Ethel Cote joins Geraldine Cahill for her take on the Social Enterprise World Forum in Melbourne, Australia this year. The exciting part for Ethel was the building global movement around social enterprise.
Presenter: Jorge LeClair
“We’d love to be more tech-savvy; it’s just not in our budget.” Sound familiar? Then you need to attend this session to understand strategies for setting appropriate budgets for your technology needs and projects. Learn tactics and tips on how to secure key technological resources that will help your organization be more efficient. Register now to discuss trends, challenges, and opportunities to make the most of what you’ve got! In our current economic climate, you can’t afford to miss out on this session!
Abcd Workshop on Changing Cities One Neighbourhood at a time, in partnership ...Cormac Russell
Presentation about ABCD around the world and how using Asset Based Principles some local Governments have changed the way they engage with Citizens and approach community development.
Module 5 social enterprise - a key integration and progression toolcaniceconsulting
Having come through Modules 1-3, you should be coming to this module enthused and inspired, bursting with ideas of how you can improve your Interface Community. In this module we will look at social entrepreneurship in more detail as a key integration and progression tool.
Accelerating the Innovation Agenda in Rural and Urban CommunitiesDon Duval
Communities around the world are seeking to understand how to foster innovation and drive sustained economic and social prosperity in their region. Don will highlight the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving job and wealth creation and the role regional innovation centres play in ensuring on-going economic competitiveness. In addition to highlighting international examples of vibrant innovation hubs, Don will also discuss two unique examples from Sudbury that not only have made a significant impact in supporting the City’s innovation agenda, but can also serve as a model for other communities in identifying and capitalizing on their innovation potential.
Marketing & The Business "Stuff" - What Social Enterprises Need to Know!Olwen Dawe
Presentation given to the "Fostering Community Enterprise Resilience in Roscommon" conference, March 2013. An overview on the role of business techniques in social and community organisation's sustainability.
Building a culture of innovation to help our future leadersLali Wiratunga
Helping to prepare our future leaders, our youth, for the jobs of the future, will require a spirit of community, critical thinking and creativity. These are just some of the 21st century skills that will be relevant to thrive not just survive in the future.
This guide aims to explain to any and all young people exactly what a social enterprise is. It includes information on legal structure, shining examples, organisations offering support, and the money available to social enterprises. Altogether, this guide should be all you need to learn the basics about social enterprise.
Platform cooperativism in australia darren sharp november 2016 finalDarren Sharp
The second platform cooperativism conference, Building the Cooperative Internet was held at the New School and Civic Hall in New York City on November 11-13. These are the slides from my talk 'Platform Cooperativism in Australia: An Emerging Ecosystem'.
Presenting in partnership with United Way Central Alberta in Red Deer, SiG National Executive Director, Tim Draimin, explores social innovation: what it is, why it is important, and the opportunity for Alberta to become a social innovation leader.
Presenting at Startup Edmonton for Make Something Edmonton, SiG National Executive Director, Tim Draimin, explores "Making Change Through Social Innovation" - introducing what social innovation is, why it is important, and the opportunity for Alberta to become a social innovation leader.
During our kickoff 2014 Inspiring Action for Social Impact webinar, Indy Johar challenged us to think about being open, rather than being social by intention. We discussed how "social" can be too prescriptive or co-opted. We also covered how to go from ‘I’ to ‘We.’ One to Many.
As we move into a year in which we will discuss growing the Sharing Economy, Indy helped us think through this and other "new economy" movements. What we should be ready for in terms of potential challenges or missteps?
Indy Johar is a co-founder of 00:/ and a qualified architect. On behalf of 00:/, Indy has co-founded multiple social ventures from HubWestminster.net to the up coming HubLaunchpad.net [A £4m Open Venture Accelerator] and has also co-led research projects such as The Compendium for the Civic Economy, whilst supporting several 00:/ explorations/experiments including the wikihouse.cc, opendesk.cc.
On May 2nd, Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of Nesta discussed the opportunities society has to overcome the barriers that fiscal challenges present to innovation.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis Geoff laid out the challenges ahead during his 2009 TED Talk: “I think what connects the challenge for business, the challenge for government and the challenge for communities now, is both simple and difficult. We know our societies have to radically change. We know we can’t go back to where we were before."
During this presentation, MaRS CEO, Dr. Ilse Treurnicht takes viewers through the evolution of this innovation convergence centre through to where it sees itself moving in the future. It covers both MaRS' roots, and the best practices around the world that are informing its development.
For the complete webinar presented by Ilse, visit: http://bit.ly/xliQYz
Care, caring, and caregiver are words used to describe those who take care of family members or friends out of love. These terms are also used by those who are paid to help and support others. This is confusing on a number of fronts.
One: there is a big difference between being paid to provide care versus not expecting and not receiving financial compensation.
Two: the policy discussions and funding decisions tend to focus on professional and paid care provided by non profits, governments or institutions as if they were the only ones. This paid sector receives the bulk of the financial resources allocated by governments. In this regard, natural care is playing teeter totter with an elephant.
That the dimensions, requirements and scale of natural care is invisible is a serious public policy issue. We have relegated it as a private matter. In fact, it defines us as a species, as a country, as a society, as an individual.
Providers of natural care need resources to support themselves and the people they are caring for. It is a matter of decency, natural justice and our collective survival. This serious matter should be a high public policy priority.
Al Etmanski delivered this presentation on December 7, 2011 along with a webinar you can access here: http://bit.ly/v6w0Bx
Visit our SiG website for further resources: http://sigeneration.ca
On November 30, 2011 Tim Draimin delivered a public webinar as part of the Canadian Social Impact Series presented by SiG. He examined the synergies and points of difference between the Australian and Canadian social innovation ecosystems.
He observed remarkable progress in social innovation during a visit to Australia in November. He concludes with some questions about how Canadians can learn from and adopt some of Australia's best practices.
To see the full webinar visit: http://sigeneration.ca
Allyson discusses Shared Value, the concept first popularized by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer in their Harvard Business Review article, and shape the discussion around the impact & import for the non-profit sector.
You can see and hear the full presentation in context by visiting http://sigeneration.ca/SharedValue.html
Allyson Hewitt is the Director of Social Entrepreneurship at the MaRS Discovery District and Director of SiG@MaRS.
* why do we need managers who are skilled at social innovation?
* what are the key capacities that leaders and managers bring to social innovation?
* how do we create a social innovation culture inside our organisations?
* how do we become a society that practices continuous social innovation?
The Partnering Initiative works with individuals, organisations and systems to promote and develop partnerships for sustainable development - between business, government and civil society. Ros Tennyson presented as part of SiG's Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series. This is the presentation she spoke to;
Christian Bason is head of MindLab, a unit for citizen-centred innovation. MindLab involves citizens and businesses in the co-creation of new public policy and services. MindLab is part of the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Employment. Christian is a regular columnist and blogger and the author of three books on leadership, innovation and change in the public sector., including "Leading Public Sector Innovation: Co-creating for a better society."
In the past, Canadians relied on governments and non-profits to meet social needs, while leaving markets, private capital and business to deliver financial returns. This binary system is breaking down. Profound societal challenges require us to find new ways to mobilize ingenuity and resources for effective, long-term solutions. A social finance marketplace investing in social, environmental and economic returns.
1. Éthel Côté Social Enterprise Practitioner Canadian Center for Community Renewal Founding Member Social Enterprise Council of Canada President of 2 social enterprises: The Musketeers Journal & CANAFRIC Theater Acting Coordinator International Network for Promotion Of Social Solidarity Economy
2. It takes a Web of supports to start & grow a Social enterprise : : : Social Enterprise World Forum : : : Melbourne 6-8 October 2009 Co-hosted by SVA and Social Traders
3. More than an international event on social enterprise ... An emerging movement!
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10. My workshop : How to match complex need target groups with the right business type and create social enterprises for specific labour markets.
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15. All purchasing decisions are choices… they directly influence and shape economic opportunities, employment and social networks on a local, regional and global basis. Workshop delivered by David LePage Enterprising Non-Profits – enp www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca Vancouver, BC, Canada October 8, 2009 Melbourne Australia Pathways to Success: Forms of Social Procurement
16. Every business, non-profit and level of government purchase goods and services every day , including cleaning, catering, couriers, office supplies, IT, coffee, printing, maintenance and repairs, furniture, fuel, landscaping…
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18. Government Examples Province of Ontario Poverty Reduction Plan includes purchasing from social enterprises; City of Vancouver contracts with Starworks for sign assembly and other projects, Starworks employs persons with disabilities; Province of Manitoba has a community economic lens on purchasing, which includes social enterprise by nature of their business model.
19. Institutions and NGO’s University Models of Sustainable Purchasing: Simon Fraser, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto Group Purchasing by Non-Profits: United Community Services Co-op and the Purposeful Purchasing Initiative Social Purchasing and Sustainability Not a constraint, an Opportunity
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VANOC is the Vancouver 2010 Olymic Organizing Committee... they have a sustainablility commitment across the games, and have done a major amount of environmental consideration in all aspects of the games... however the social aspects have not had the same commitment or investment... however some of the policies that they developed around social aspects have been models for future games, such as adding social components to bids for certain services and goods, and attempting to include social enterprises in the delivery of services.... so several social enterprises will have olympic presence, flowers for all medal winners, the lost and found services, and the buidling of the podiums for the events.... the development of the policies that include social enteprirse criteria within their rfp's has set a precedent.... and is being used in future games, like the Glaskow 2014 Commonwealth Games...