Last week I attended the second Building Reconciliation Forum. This annual two-day gathering examines the role of post-secondary in implementing the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I was there to listen and to learn. The Forum was an eye-opening and heart-wrenching experience, with speaker after speaker outlining the impacts of Canada’s colonial and […]
Learn moreBy Jakob Wildman-Sisk, Social Lab Manager, UNB’s Pond-Deshpande Centre and Chad Lubelsky, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. This blog was originally published on the Re-Code website. It was republished here with the author’s permission. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem is a tall order. Yet in nine years, the community of Hubballi, India has been transformed through […]
Learn moreThis blog post was originally published on the Re-Code website. It has been reproduced here with the author’s permission. A few months ago I posted our initial thinking and plans for evaluating Re-Code’s systems change work. The post describes the complexity of evaluating systems change, and you can see our first steps here. And if […]
Learn moreThis is an exciting time for Re-Code. As the work on campuses across Canada continues to ramp up, we are developing ways in which we can effectively evaluate and measure the impact of this work. Our guiding question has been “what will success look like?” To help us answer it, we have developed anticipated desired […]
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