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As a funder, capacity-builder and convenor, Re-Code supports Canadian universities and colleges to build a more just and sustainable world.

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Webinar: The Problem Solver’s Companion – 10 Steps to Starting a Social Enterprise

Oct 24, 2019

Meet Re-Code’s New Social Innovation Fellow, Paula Sahyoun

Sep 11, 2019

Report: Perspectives on Reconciliation: A Summer Institute
Yukon Territory

Jan 9, 2020

Webinar: Systems Change Education in an Innovation Context

Sep 9, 2019

What is Social Infrastructure and what does it mean to me?

Jun 27, 2019

Navigating the scaling literature

Jun 25, 2019

Job opportunity: McConnell Junior Social Innovation Fellow

Jun 21, 2019

Third consecutive triumph at global competition reflects Canadian post-secondary’s dedication to social change

Jun 12, 2019

Map the System Canada caps record-breaking year

May 27, 2019

Social Change Innovations in Post-Secondary Institutions

Jan 29, 2019
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A case for disruption.

This paper explores how post-secondary institutions are in an ideal position to improve social wellbeing using their financial, physical, relational, research, and education resources. Learn how schools are using this rich array of resources to build “social infrastructure” and to contribute positively to communities and society.

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Project Showcase

Explore the projects that Re-Code is assisting through its partnerships.

Charting a Path for Social Purpose Finance and Administration

How can higher education finance and administration leaders contribute to their institution’s social ambitions?

BC Collaborative on Social Infrastructure

Together, University of Northern British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, BC Institute of Technology, and Vancouver Island University have established the first-ever “BC Collaborative for Social Infrastructure.”

HackEd

The hackEd project (2015-2017)  was motivated by the question: how might we, as a Foundation initiative, best support students nationwide in being changemakers on their respective campuses?

Universities Canada Social Impact Advisory Group

Universities Canada has launched a new project to frame, curate and promote the promising best practices of Canadian universities’ social impact initiatives. The Advisory Group is co-chaired by Re-Code’s Chad Lubelsky.

UpSocial Innovations

An opportunity exists for universities and colleges to complement their core teaching and research functions by using the many resources at their disposal to better address community needs and increase wellbeing.

Reconciliation in the Post Secondary Sector

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission underscored the central responsibility of the education sector to enable the realization of reconciliation with Indigenous communities across the country.

Reconciliation by Regional Universities

With a shared goal of creating a good future for the next generation, many Indigenous communities and Regional Universities have partnered together.

Colleges and Institutes Canada

Increasingly, there is an imperative for schools to engage not individually, but collectively on projects, around shared values for the sector as a whole.

Map the System

Map the System is a global competition that invites students to think differently about social and environmental change, starting with an understanding of a challenge and its wider context.

Carnegie Community Engagement Classification

The Carnegie Elective Community Engagement Classification has been operating since ___ in the United States.

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The national community of practice that we were introduced to, the support and advocacy from the Re-Code team over the years, and the friendships developed are priceless contributions to our New Brunswick ecosystem. We will be profoundly grateful for these as we continue on this journey together.

Karina LeBlanc
University of New Brunswick

We are officially the first Canadian Community College to become a changemaker campus! This COULD NOT have been achieved without the drive, innovative visioning, and funding provided to us from Re-Code.

Suzie Addison-Toor
Georgian College

It was an invitation to a conversation, and to an uncertain but potential-filled national project... Re-Code has fomented a community of practice that simply did not exist before.

James Stauch
Mount Royal University

Re-Code Network

Explore the schools that have worked with Re-Code.

HEC Montréal

Round 1 Recipient

Create a social innovation zone that provides support services to current and future entrepreneurs, and to social businesses.

Cégep André-Laurendeau

L’École de l’innovation citoyenne (ÉIC) is an initiative of École de technologie supérieure (ETS), developed in partnership with Collège Dawson & Cégep André-Laurendeau. Together, they have created a Social Innovation zone and promoted social entrepreneurship by integrating social-impact activities into their schools’ existing entrepreneur ecosystem

Seneca College

Seneca College’s HELIX (Health Entrepreneurship & Lifestyle Innovation Xchange) invites youth to solve real world challenges with venture and design thinking. Through its various programs, HELIX supports social entrepreneurship in all sectors, with a focus on innovative health and lifestyle products and services.

Vancouver Island University

VIU worked with Re-Code to host a pre-day to the 2018 Building Reconciliation Forum that focused on education pathways for Indigenous learners.
Since 2015, VIU has also been involved in a very successful project with McConnell that aims to encourage participation in the Canada Learning Bond among Aboriginal people in Canada.

Georgian College

Round 1 Recipient

Increase capacity for experiential and multi‐disciplinary learning, the number of changemaker spaces to incubate and grow new social enterprises, and foster innovative social finance.

University of Guelph

Round 1 Recipient

Re-Code Round 1 Funding helped catalyze the “Ideas Congress” course: a unique for-credit courses where students of all disciplines work on real-life projects with community partners to improve sustainability and food security.

OCAD University

Round 1 Recipient

OCADU used Re-Code funding to develop the “Impact Collective”: a three-part Lab/Exchange/Research Hub that supports the OCAD University community to direct their creative energies into making change and creating positive social impact.

Cégep de Sherbrooke

Round 1 Recipient

Set up a non-profit organisation that offers various services to the community and enables Cégep students to develop entrepreneurial and managerial skills.

Ryerson University

Round 1 Recipient

Increase engagement in social innovation across faculties, support applied research and experiential learning, and strengthen knowledge mobilization.

Wilfrid Laurier University

Three years of Re-Code funding helped WLU to develop SIVC (Social Innovation Venture Creation): a multi-faceted program that aims to provide students co-curricular opportunities in social innovation.

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