New Social Venture Makes Children’s Books More Accessible

New Social Venture Makes Children’s Books More Accessible

Dave Rader created the idea for BookBugs – an online children’s book retailer that donates books to kids in need and closes the book access gap – while getting his MBA. As the son of two educators and the husband of a pediatrician, he was inspired to...
Three Good Ideas from the Social Finance Forum 2014

Three Good Ideas from the Social Finance Forum 2014

Quite a lot has already been shared about the 2014 Social Finance Forum, which took place at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing in Toronto on November 6 and 7. So, for this piece, I’m going to keep my thoughts to three good ideas that I took away from the event this...
Can a Television Show Inspire Social Change?

Can a Television Show Inspire Social Change?

The world is more tolerant and less violent than at any other point in human history, but you wouldn’t know it from watching most mainstream media. Despite incredible advancements and a world of unprecedented innovation and interconnectedness, the news still focuses...
Technology for Social Change: TechChange focuses on peacebuilding

Technology for Social Change: TechChange focuses on peacebuilding

Here at TechChange, along with providing technology training for social change, we are constantly bringing words and numbers to life through animations. The recent surge of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in international development has caught the attention of...
An Introduction to SROI: Evaluator’s Cut

An Introduction to SROI: Evaluator’s Cut

The world of program evaluation, like any other, has its hot topics. Multi-methods evaluation, developmental evaluation and data visualization are a few of the things evaluators have been buzzing about recently. At the 2014 annual Canadian Evaluation Society...

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