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SiG websites
- J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
- SiG at University of Waterloo
- MaRS Discovery District
- PLAN Institute
- SiG Knowledge Hub
- Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation
- Social Finance
- Causeway
- Net Change Week
SiG Reports
Surmountable Chasms: Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems
Social Impact Bonds: A Practical Social Innovation
Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Report
Measuring Progress During Year One: Canadian Task Force on Social Finance
On Not Letting a Crisis Go to Waste: An Innovation Agenda for Canada’s Community Sector
Patterns, Principles and Practices in Social Innovation
Engaging Youth Within Our Communities
Getting Wisdom: The Transformative Power of Community Service-Learning
SiG@Waterloo Case Studies and Reports
SiG Videos
Stephen Huddart on Social Innovation
Alan Broadbent & Tim Brodhead: Tools for Building Effective Collaborations
Recommended Reading
The Times They Are A Changin‘ – Stephen Huddart, speech, Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network Conference 2012
Getting to Maybe: How the world is changed– Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton, Random House, 2006
New Voices from the Voluntary Sector, Edited by Frederick Bird and Frances Westley, 2011
Other recommended resources
- What Works – New ways to make social change
- Social Capital Partners
- Appartenance – Belonging | Belonging
- The Philia Dialogue on Caring Citizenship
- Change.org
- NESTA
- Civic Footprint
- Maytree
- Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto
- The Australian Centre for Social Innovation
- Centre for Social Innovation, New Zealand
- Charities Aid Foundation- Venturesome
- Ashoka Foundation
- Young Foundation
- TYZE
- Skoll School (at Oxford)
- Social Entrepreneurs Coalition
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- ClearlySo Canada
- Experientia
- Beth Kanter
- Sustainable Everyday
- Sustainability Network
- Institut du Nouveau Monde
- Desis Network
- RQIS
- MediaLab Prado
- Research Impact
- CPNet
- Social Velocity
- Caledon Institute of Social Policy
- Smart CSO’s
- Project on Social Innovation, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Public Administration and the Impact Economy
- SoJo online resource for social entrepreneurs
Reports
Evaluating Social Innovation FSG, Hallie Preskill and Tanya Beer
Communicating bigger-than-self problems to extrinsically-oriented audiences
Finding Frames: New ways to engage the UK public in global poverty
Effective change strategies for the Great Transition
The Future Quotient Volans and JWT
Effecting policy change: Lessons from the Canadian Caregiver Coalition
InnovateNext: Leading Canada to greater productivity, competitiveness and resilience
What’s next for Philanthropy – Monitor Institute
Social Enterprise and Social Innovation, by Charles Leadbeater
Integrated Innovation – Grand Challenges Canada at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
Capital Ideas: How to generate innovation in the public sector, Geoff Mulgan and Jitinder Kohli, 2010
Scaling New Heights Geoff Mulgan and Jitinder Kholi, 2010
Radical Efficiency, NESTA, 2010
Design and the Social Sector: An Annotated Bibliography
Articles
Social innovation harnesses the best in all of us
Collaboration, innovation key to solving social ills
B.C. Begins Consultation on Community Interest Companies
New blood, new ideas shake up old notions
This man has ideas, let’s put them to work
BC’s Institutions – a stain on our history
Social Innovation in Canada: An Update
From Canadian Research Policy Networks
Social Innovation needs funding
A New Alliance for Global Change – Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich
Alliance Interview with Sir. Ronald Cohen Jan 1, 2010
Eight trends in social entrepreneurship to look out for in 2011, by Dowser.org
Blogs and Media
Recommended Reading
How to Change the World: Social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas – David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2004
Five Good Ideas: Practical strategies for non-profit success, Edited by Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar
The Four Walls of my Freedom, Donna Thomson, Mcarthur and Co, 2010
We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production, Charles Leadbetter, Profile Books, 2008
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath, Broadway Books, 2010
The Innovators Playbook, William D. Eggers and Shalabh Kumar Singh, Deloitte Development LLC.
Leading Public Sector Innovation, Christian Bason, The Policy Press, 2010
Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky, Penquin Books, 2008
Macrowikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, 2010
Social Media