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

On July 19, 2017, Miquel de Paladella of UpSocial joined SiG and a group of enabling organizations and innovators in Toronto. UpSocial works to identify and adapt proven globally-sourced innovations into local contexts (working at the city level), engaging deeply with stakeholders to ensure sustainability and impact.

Latest blog posts

Ownership Matters in the Sharing Economy
August 16, 2017
Editor's note: This blog post first appeared on Medium published on August 3rd and re-posted with permission. On September 9th & 10th, a conference at Toronto’s Reference Library will explore … Read More...
What Drives Experimentation?
August 11, 2017
Field Notes from Silicon Valley #2 I am spending some time this year in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to better understand their culture of R&D, how organizations are set up to pursue R&D … Read More...
Dear Universities, Show us what you’ve got!
June 29, 2017
Note: This blog was originally published on RECODE and was reposted with permission of the author. We live in a volatile, uncertain and complex world. With threats of climate change, rising … Read More...

News from the partnership

As the northern ice broke this summer, two retrofitted shipping containers arrived in Iqaluit, where they will be repurposed as vessels for growing plants in water. This project is part of what’s called the Northern Innovation Hub, which last year won first place in the Civic Innovation Awards. More.

Finding friendship and making personal connections in one’s community can present challenges for us all; for those who are isolated due to disability, illness or old age, developing a personal support network can seem insurmountable. More.

In a complex world, making positive change isn’t easy. Understanding social innovation and having simple, useful tools for analysis will help. WISIR presents free lecture videos, documents, tools, and other resources for understanding social innovation. More.

MaRS Solutions Lab was pleased to support the city of Toronto’s Municipal Licensing & Standards consultations on short-term rentals. The lab helped identify the issues and opportunities that short-term rentals have in the Toronto context. More.