Lecture on Social Innovation: Adam Kahane on Power & Love
The Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation highlights world-class thinkers with new ideas on how to achieve significant, durable social change for our most pressing problems. Internationally acclaimed...
View ArticleOperationalizing Social Innovation
A pragmatic definition of social innovation from the perspective of operationalizing the concept is: Inter-organizational collaboration addressing a compelling societal need. This definition is a...
View ArticleA Social Innovator’s Guide to Systems Thinking
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Tim Draimin, Social Innovation Generation (SiG) This article by Tim Draimin, E.D. of Social Innovation Generation (SiG), makes the case that the focus of...
View ArticleDevelopmental Evaluation and Developmental Design for Social Innovation
How do we keep up with change and do it in a way that supports our work rather than undoes it? Developmental evaluation allows us to systematically collect data that enables us to make strategic...
View ArticleThe Resilient Tribe: Designing Leadership For Complexity
Individuals, organizations and networks are living with unprecedented social complexity requiring more attention than ever on fostering resiliency at all levels to not only thrive, but survive....
View ArticleWhy Innovations Fail
I've come to see that at the very heart of success there are just two interrelated and mutually dependent, elements: the need to change expectations or the "inner attitudes" in James' phrasing and the...
View ArticleDon’t just say you’re making a difference, show it
When we say we’re making a difference, changing the world, and inspiring innovation: what do we mean and how do we know it? Evaluation is a means of showing the world that you really are making changes...
View ArticleThe Finger Pointing to the Moon
In social innovation we are at risk of confusing our stories of success for real, genuine impact. Without theories, implementation science or evaluation we risk aspiring to travel to the moon, yet...
View ArticleExperiencing the shock of the possible in uncertain times…
Speaking to an over-200-person audience at MaRS Discovery District on November 24, Stephen Huddart, President and CEO of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, challenged the growing contemporary...
View ArticleA Residency in Social Innovation
The Suncor Energy Foundation, in partnership with The Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute at The Banff Centre and the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the U of Waterloo offer...
View ArticleMetaphor as the Sail, Story as the Sea
The story of complexity is never easy to tell, but Brenda Zimmerman came close. Her use of metaphor and stories made the unapproachable and important, accessible. While the world lost Brenda, we'll...
View ArticleSocial innovation, social justice and emotion: Connections to community
Does your social innovation include social justice? And what does that mean? This post looks at the relationship between the two and how our emotional connections to community is a mediator between...
View ArticleDoing Good Better: Upping Canada’s Game with an R&D Engine
R&D for social impact could be far more intentional, connected, and supported. In that way, it would be much more accessible, widespread, celebrated, and most importantly, impactful.read more
View ArticleWho gets invited to the social innovation party?
Social innovation is all about creating value through new ideas with and for the community, yet the process of innovating itself is at risk of creating as many exclusions as inclusions if we're not...
View ArticleGetting to Maybe: A Social Innovation Residency 2016
Learn more about this unique 28-day residency program for change-makers eager to learn together and discover new ways to make communities better places to live.read more
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