From January 27-31 in Madeira Park, BC, join Plan Institute and Social Innovation Generation (SiG) for Thinking Like a Movement—an annual four-day learning opportunity with Canada’s leading experts in social innovation. To learn more about the event—designed for social innovators in business, government, and the citizen sector who want to extend the impact, durability, and scale of their work—click here.
Learn moreOn January 30 at 10:00 a.m. (EST) tune-in for Levelling the Playing Field: Building Equality and Inclusion with Sport, to learn how two youth-focused programs in Greenwich (UK) and Montreal are using the power of sport and games to cultivate cross-cultural understanding, empathy, equality, and fair play. The free webinar is hosted by Cities of Migration and highlights Play It […]
Learn moreThe Foundation has created, in partnership with the National Arts Centre, a $60,000 fund to assist Canadian organizations that are launching Sistema music programs. El Sistema—founded in Venezuela in 1975—provides children in low income communities with access to musical instruments and a demanding regimen of instruction at no cost. The fund is open to: programs currently in […]
Learn moreThe Foundation congratulates the winners of the online Ashoka Changemakers competition, BC Ideas: Solutions for Stronger Communities. BC Ideas sought innovative solutions to complex health, social, and environmental challenges facing British Columbia communities. Selected from 466 entries, 33 competition winners received grants of $500 to $20,000, including one from the Foundation awarded to Beauty Night, an organization building […]
Learn moreInnoweave’s Aaron Good shared his thoughts on social innovation in the not-for-profit sector in the latest edition of [SiC], the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s blog. In his post, Aaron talks about the need for non-profits to move from a “business as usual” approach and the role of tools for social innovation in enhancing organizational impact. As […]
Learn moreFoundation grantee, The Stop Community Food Centre (the Stop) was recently featured in the Canadian Business article The Stop: The capitalist’s guide to feeding the poor, describing the Stop’s journey from a traditional food bank model to an innovative community food centre. The article highlights the Stop’s ever-growing array of programs and initiatives to engage and serve […]
Learn moreArtsSmarts—an initiative launched by the Foundation in 1998 that is now a stand-alone organization—held its sixth national Knowledge Exchange recently at the University of Calgary, on the theme of cultivating creative communities. One of the presenters at the meeting, John Eger, subsequently penned this piece in the Huffington Post: The Best Way to Grow the Economy? Creativity. […]
Learn moreThe Innoweave Impact and Strategic Clarity module focuses on an approach to strategic thinking that eludes many non-profit organizations. Rather than focusing on what we do (activities), a theory of change requires us to think about the ultimate goals we are trying to achieve (outcomes) and how, through our activities, we achieve those goals. Though […]
Learn moreIn a new Foundation webinar, Building on Failure: Learning When Things Go Wrong, Ashley Good of Admitting Failure provides an overview of how to “fail forward”—an approach that is grounded in years of generating failure reports with Engineers Without Borders Canada—and Dr. Natasha Blanchet-Cohen highlights some failures (and lessons learned) related to her work with the Foundation’s pan-Canadian […]
Learn moreOn November 16 in Toronto, Innoweave held a workshop for the first cohort of the Impact and Strategic Clarity module. The module focuses on enabling community organizations to articulate a coherent ‘intended impact’ and ‘theory of change’ and report on it to internal and external stakeholders. It is being led by the Bridgespan Group, and supported by United Way […]
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