Centering Equity in Collective Impact Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2022 This article is too long. Note the important highlights below. … the single greatest reason why collective impact efforts fall short is a failure to center equity. Collective impact has lasting effectiveness only if it is focused on changing
I worked with Sam when he was co-leading the Out of the Box social enterprise. This picture captures the true humanity of Sam, he had a huge heart and was always gracious to those around him. More here
Funding Decent Work research: A comparison of 4 funders from Canada, the UK and United States.
Social Impact Advisors podcast interview with Andrea Nemtin, Executive Director of Social Innovation Canada. The full interview is here. Summary of their conversation: What is Social Innovation the concept? Frances Westley (2008): An initiative, product, process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs
Social Impact Advisors podcast with Allyson Hewitt, McConnell Foundation Senior Fellow of Social Innovation at MaRS Discovery District. Full podcast interview here Below is a summary of her conversation Social Innovation has to see rubber hitting the road Social Innovation means new ways of doing things that are valued, but
Now get this. A former C-level exec at Black Rock. Yes that Black Rock, resigned from his position as chief of sustainable investing, and basically throws up his hands and says governments have to throw their chips into the centre and quit playing coy, and step up to the plate.
Here is a great chart that outlines the important differences between these 3 concepts. Ok. Everybody can take a turn and make sense of these 3 labels any way they want. For me I place these three categories on a temporal scheme. I’ll go first. SIMPLE, is pre-WWII. First and
This is a simple Logic Model from a project I worked on a few years ago. From the Logic Model you decide what you want to achieve, how to measure it, what the indicators would be, and how to collect the data. From the data you craft a story of
Social Impact Advisors podcast interview Melissa Sariffodeen, CEO of Canada Learning Code Full interview here Melissa makes some crucial points underscoring the purpose and function of a strong Theory of Change. Below is a summary of her conversation. Theory of Change is theory A theory of change (TOC) is many
I just connected with a group of academics out of Quebec, the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network who want to push the envelope on philanthropy and its work on the SDGs. What better than to interview Andrew Chunilall, CEO of Community Foundations Canada. Full interview here: Here is a summary
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