It was 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). While the sun has set on the formal partnership, this site stands as an archive to social innovation resources, programs, and ways of contributing to positive change.
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.
Learn about the Social R&D body of work and the growing Community of Practice in Canada. Find out more.
Sharing our decade-long journey was our final project. To order the SiG book email the McConnell Foundation here.
Watch our final Inspiring Action video
SiG Sunset Celebration from Spaceward Media on Vimeo.
On November 28, 2017, more than 400 people gathered at MaRS in Toronto to celebrate the SiG Sunset and pay tribute to a decade of work fostering a culture of continuous Canadian social innovation. We also celebrated the long and world class contribution by Dr. Frances Westley to the field of social innovation.
Blog archive
Social Innovation 2021
Social Innovation 2021 Social innovations are any disruptions to situations where traditional markets aren't providing what people need. The covid-19 pandemic was a great example of … Read More...
Catalyzing a social R&D ecosystem: Phase 3 — Deepening involvement with and connections between practitioners, policymakers, funders and the international community
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Catalyzing a social R&D ecosystem: Phase 2 — Conducting a positive deviance inquiry and fostering practitioner peer coaching and learning
As my SiG fellowship wraps at the end of December 2017, this is the second of a three-part blog post series documenting the insights, decisions, signposts, twists and turns of a social R&D … Read More...
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