SiG@MaRS Info Session - March 24, 2010
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- 6. Challenging what it means to be a do-gooder Do good better. This is SiG@MaRS
- 7. SiG National (4) nodes: including [email_address] Causeway Social Finance Program of SiG National supported by SiG@MaRS
- 9. social innovation kids helpline jump math non-hierachical, confidence based learning bullfrog power Canada’s first 100% green electricity provider greenpeace first global environmental organization carbon trading Offsetters//Zero footprint RDSP world’s first saving plan for people with disabilities nez rouge Safe ride home women’s institute first global women’s advocacy network Medicare OHIP Examples of Social Innovation
- 13. $146.6B (2005) in revenues; larger than the retail and automotive sectors 2 million employees (7.2% of Canada’s labour force) 161,000 registered charities and not-for-profit organizations
- 20. Coming April 6, 2010 – Antony Bugg-Levine, Rockefeller Foundation
- 27. Social Finance Social finance is an approach to managing money that delivers a social and/or environmental dividend as well as an economic return.
- 32. Allyson Hewitt Director, Social Entrepreneurship [email_address] [email_address] 416-673-8410
Editor's Notes
- MaRS is a Social Enterprise – generates income as a landlord – through projects – government grants
- Convergence Innovation Centre Researchers – OICR – all hospitals VC – financial institutions – patent lawyers, entrepreneurs & us Collaboration happens in the margins between the unusual suspects
- Four independent nodes
- T hree areas of work within three activity areas
- Definition taken from SiG Primer on Social Innovation 2010. Original definition from Wikipedia.
- Asset based approach – add video on Al Etmanski and John McKnight
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- Hand out of Discovery Documents – ask to have it emailed to you after speaking with one of our staff We can help you fill it out
- Incredible momentum in this area – some have been doing this for some time, like our colleagues at CSI, others are newer players ALL are welcome because all add value
- One of our nodes in SiG National is SiG@Waterloo led by Dr Frances Westley – issue: McConnell’s applied dissemination – understanding the essence of innovation – how to understand what we do through images or different lenses
- Social finance – high level – Joanna Social technology – integrating into all we do PLUS ST4SC – Lisa Public policy – ONN - OPRS
- Tyze video http://tyze.com/about_tyze
- Please feel free to stick around and chat with us about your work – grab a sandwhich