New Blooms at Ontario’s School for Social Entrepreneurs
Spring is a time of regeneration, new beginnings and a renewal of spirit. So it seems more than appropriate to be writing about the exciting new beginnings at Ontario’s School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE-O), launched in 2012 and closing in on its second year...
Social Purpose Enterprise: defined, deliberated and dissected
The Social Economy Series will focus on research, findings and case studies by the Social Economy Centre of the University of Toronto. We launch the series with definitions, as established by the Centre through their work in the field. As those who’ve spent time...
New Initiative Uses Technology to Help Youth Save for College
Teenagers are avid users of social media, Facebooking, tweeting and texting their way through the day. Three out of four teenagers has a profile on a social networking site and two-thirds text every day. And now, one San Francisco-based nonprofit is leveraging that...
A McGill Trip To Mongolia Inspires Activism
Spearheaded by Professor Karl Moore, the Hot Cities of the World Tour, in its sixth year, has the slogan “Taking the future to the future”. This year, 40 McGill Desautels Faculty of Management undergraduate students and alumni traveled with two...
Innovations to Get Canadians Moving
Canadian government launches The Play Exchange, taps the creativity of everyday citizens to solve health crisis A recent 12-year study examined the health habits of 5,404 Canadians who had just received an initial diagnosis of a chronic illness, such as diabetes,...
Impact Ontario 2014: Working at the margins but the mainstream is watching
There are some very positive things to say about the Impact Ontario Conference which took place at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing in Toronto on March 18. It generated a sold-out crowd of more than 300 attendees from Canada and well beyond. There remained a...
Social Innovation: Pathways to success
The challenges of our time are increasingly complex and interconnected. The solutions require not just innovation but interaction between many different elements including new business models and financial mechanisms, new relationships that align...
Meet Magnus – and Support People with Special Needs
My brother, Troy, has autism. Like many other special needs families, our family portrait consists of a whirlwind of acronyms (EIP, IEP, PECS, ABA, SI, IBI, DSM), with us clinging to each other and our sanity in the centre of it all. Like many others...
Scaling Deep into Grantmaking: Toward greater impact
Scale Deep is framed in many questions but the one that resonates the most is ‘what can we do together that we can’t do alone?’ I’m particularly interested in this question because I’ve had the opportunity to work with many people involved with many...
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