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Social Innovation Generation (SiG) is a national partnership that fosters innovative approaches to addressing Canada’s social and ecological challenges. SiG was created to generate and support social innovations that are resilient and sustainable.
SiG focuses on nurturing the health, resilience and vibrancy of our linked social, economic and ecological systems through innovations that change perceptions and improve the well being of Canadians. Particular attention is being paid to innovations that engage vulnerable and excluded people, and that encourage and benefit from the abundant natural, social and cultural diversity of Canada.
By giving Canada’s social entrepreneurs the resources they need to accelerate their impact, SiG hopes to generate momentum for the future while building on Canada’s rich legacy of innovation. In order to achieve this goal, SiG is committed to supporting new social finance methods; to exploring the potential of social technology and social media; and to developing resilient networks and relationships across all sectors.
SiG’s national partners are:
SiG @ McConnell, whose mission is to generate creative solutions to Canada’s pressing social and environmental challenges by identifying and funding innovative, sustainable strategies, by creating a climate that actively encourages continuous social innovation, and through effective partnerships among researchers, practitioners and funders; furthermore, to promote innovation in Canadian philanthropic practice. To learn more, please click here.
SiG @ Waterloo is designing and leading academic programs aimed at strengthening the capacity for social innovation, and developing new methodologies to engage researchers and practitioners across the country in collaborative work to find and test innovative solutions to social problems.
To learn more, please click here.
SiG @ MaRS focuses on building a new series of linkages between social innovators and venture philanthropists, developing seminars to support emerging organizations and their leaders and expanding Canada’s small cluster of social enterprises. Through educational programs, advisory services, events and networking opportunities, SiG @ MaRS aims to arm social entrepreneurs with the appropriate skills and know-how to enable them to set up sustainable and scalable initiatives that serve a social need. To learn more, please click here.
SiG @ PLAN Institute provides leadership around system transformation and public policy that strengthens the resiliency and engages the contributions of Canadians who have been labeled, excluded or marginalized. We are interested in the convergence of social justice and sustainable development. Our current focus is generating new social, legal and financial resources for people with disabilities and family caregivers. SiG @ PLAN Institute also contributes to social innovation, social enterprise, social financing, public policy and Web 2.0 strategies and resources. To learn more, please click here.
Resources
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Books and Reports
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer and Betty Sue Flowers
Getting To Maybe: How the World is Changed
Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman and Michael Patton
Reinventing Accountability for the 21st Century
Simon Zadek
Asset Building for Social Change: Pathways to Large-Scale Social Impact
Ford Foundation
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