Social Innovation Generation (www.sigeneration.ca/)

We are a collaborative partnership founded by The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, MaRS Discovery District, PLAN Institute and the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR).

Engaged Learning

Visit our SiG Knowledge Hub; a website designed to provide learning resources about creating conditions for social innovation.

Innoweave helps community organizations learn about and implement new approaches to generate impact, more quickly, and at less cost.

Watch our latest Inspiring Action video

The Culture, Passion and How of Social Innovation from Social Innovation Generation on Vimeo.

Visit our Tour page to learn more about the visit of Carolyn Curtis and Ingrid Burkett. In the coming weeks, we shall post more video and a thought piece about the opportunities the tour revealed for social innovation in Canada.

Latest blog posts

It Is Time We Honour The Communities
May 18, 2017
We honour the entrepreneur. The awards, magazine spreads, interviews and panels that recognize success and lessons learned, focus on the entrepreneur. The founder is the star; the person who has … Read More...
The future of SiG: Social Innovation at an Inflection Point
April 25, 2017
Social Innovation Generation concludes its decade-long run in its current form in December 2017. This blog is our opportunity to update our community and partners about SiG’s status and possible next … Read More...
Social R&D in Silicon Valley: Field Notes #1
March 21, 2017
This is the first in a series of Field Notes this year on methods, business models, conditions, as well as profiles of organizations pursuing or supporting R&D in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. … Read More...

News from the partnership

The Foundation’s inaugural Civic Innovation Awards program, launched last fall as part of the Foundation’s Cities for People and RECODE initiatives, awards grants of $10K to $30K to seven projects across Canada that showcase innovative collaborations between cities and post-secondary institutions. More.

MaRS Solutions Lab publishes “Shifting Perspectives: Redesigning Regulation for the Sharing Economy,” a report from the Sharing Economy Public Design project, a partnership between MaRS Solutions Lab, the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto. More.

The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience launches two seminal resources – the comprehensive Social Innovation Lab Guide and Social Innovation for Complex Problems, a series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). More.

PLAN co-founder Al Etmanski hosts the world’s first six-part Bookinar learning series with PLAN Institute, Tamarack, SiG National, ABCD Institute, BCPSI and Ashoka. Explore in-depth the six patterns to spread your social innovation featured in Al’s book: IMPACT. More.