Social Innovation Generation

National initiative of four nodes across the country

Tim Draimin, National Executive Director

Tim Brodhead, McConnell Foundation

Frances Westley, University of Waterloo

Al Etmanski, PLAN

Allyson Hewitt, MaRS

The primary aim of SiG is to encourage effective methods of addressing persistent social problems on a national scale

The activities of SiG serve to promote broad social change - SiG@MaRS brings this work to Ontario

What is SiG National?What is SiG National?

SiG@MaRS is actively developing programs to support the launch and growth of social ventures, enhancing the skills and networks of social entrepreneurs, exploring new instruments of social finance, fostering opportunities for technology platforms to help scale social ventures and building the social enterprise community

Challenging what it means to be a do-gooder

Do good better.This is SiG@MaRS

SiG National

(4) nodes: including SiG@MaRS

Causeway Social Finance

Program of SiG National supported by SiG@MaRS

Most simply, social innovation is about new ideas that work to address old social problems.

Poverty, homelessness, violence are all examples of social problems that need dedicated solution-seeking space. Social innovation addresses these challenges by applying new learning and strategies to solve these problems.

Social innovation is an initiative, product or process that profoundly changes beliefs, basic routines, resource and authority flows of any social system in the direction of greater resilience. Successful social innovations have durability & impact SiG National

Panarchy Cycle

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carbon tradingcarbon tradingOffsetters//Zero footprintOffsetters//Zero footprint

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Examples of Social InnovationExamples of Social Innovation

Wikipedia: A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change.

Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society.

While social entrepreneurs often work through

nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental

sectors

"Social entrepreneurs identify resources where people only see problems. They view the villagers as the solution, not the passive beneficiary. They begin with the assumption of competence and unleash resources in the communities they're serving.”

-- David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

Innovative enterprises which combine a strong social purpose with sound business principles

Contrast to traditional businesses which are primarily driven by the need to maximize profit or charities only driven to serve a social need

May include both for-profit and non-profit entities

Return Continuum

Grant Funded Non-Profit(Charity)

RETURNSocial (Charitable) Financial

(Commercial)

Traditional Business

Revenue Generating NFP

(Social Enterprise)

SocialPurposeBusiness

Target Zone

Social Ventures(larger # in UK/US)

$146.6B (2005) in revenues; larger than the retail and automotive sectors

2 million employees (7.2% of Canada’s labour force)

161,000 registered charities and not-for-profit organizations

Hard to scale in CanadaSupport for success includes: (i) access to training(ii) technical support (iii) mentoring

Information and referral

Market Intelligence

Access to mentors

Access to networks

Access to talent

Access to capital

Help with governance

Innovation in program design + delivery

Legal Issues

Workshops

Social Venture RegistryNext: ClustersNext: Clusters

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Complete a Discovery Document

Priority clients:

Entrepreneurial Innovative Systems Changers Need for enabling technology to scale

MaRS Discovery DistrictMaRS Centre

South Tower, Suite 100101 College Street

Toronto, OntarioM5G 1L7

T 416.673.8100F 416.673.8181

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Flagship Events:

Social Entrepreneurship Summit

Social Finance Forum

Net Change Week

Social Entrepreneur of the Year

2007Geoff Cape, Evergreen

Coming April 6, 2010 – Antony Bugg-Levine, Rockefeller Foundation

Centre for Social Innovation

Communicopia/ Web of Change

Academia

SES08 Partners – TCSA

Schwab Foundation

McConnell Foundation

Ashoka

CED Networks

CAMH

OSER

Causeway

Tides Canada

Sage Centre

Wellesley Institute

TVO/Get Involved!

Social Venture Partners

Social Capital Partners

Social Venture Institute

Community Foundations of Canada

Ontario Non Profit Network

Centre for Social Economy

Ontario Arts Council

Hospitals - Sunnybrook

Bridges

Young Foundation

School for Social Entrepreneurs

Ontario Trillium Foundation

The Learning Partnership

Social Enterprise Council of Canada

Creative Converge

Philanthropic Foundations of Canada

Social Innovation Curriculum Development

(Social) Entrepreneurship 101

Entrepreneurs Toolkit

School for Social Entrepreneurs

Workshops

SustainAgility Distility Heliotrope Blue Ocean

White paper series

Social Venture Finance Legislative Innovations Social Impact Metrics Procurement Innovations in Fund Development Corporate Social Responsibility

CURA Grant with OISE - social enterprise focus

Public Policy Forum – social venture focus

Social Venture Fund – business plan developed and submitted

Social Finance Social finance is an approach to managing money that delivers a social and/or environmental dividend as well as an economic return.

Projects that SiG@MaRS undertakes with sector partners and/or with other SiG nodes for maximum impact

RDSP: A financial tool that allows people with disabilities to start saving and accumulating assets

Tyze helps you...

...schedule everything from medical appointments to birthday parties

...plan tasks and report on progress ...connect with new people who can build and strengthen your

network ...tell the story of the person at the centre of the network: their

triumphs and challenges, and how they touch the lives of the people around them

LEAD PARTNERS

Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB)

TSX (a company of the TMX Group Inc.)

Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS

Causeway Social Finance

Other partners in the project include:

Imagine Canada

TD Waterhouse

socialfinance.ca

ClearlySo Canada

Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)

Library – hard and soft copy

Blogs

Website

Social Networking

Reports/ Subscriptions

Industry News Scanning

Case Studies

Best Practice Events

Canada Day at SoCap

Allyson HewittDirector, Social Entrepreneurship SiG@MaRSahewitt@marsdd.com416-673-8410