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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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New Resource: A Social Infrastructure Milestone Report & Three Year Retrospective Review

May 25, 2020

Presidents’ Virtual Roundtable on the Value of Community Engagement

Dec 21, 2020

Map the System 2020’s transition to virtual

May 26, 2020

On Storms, Blueprints and Collaboration: Re-Code, Post-secondary and the Pandemic

Apr 13, 2020

COVID-19 Social Impact Decision Making Tool

Report: Perspectives on Reconciliation: A Summer Institute
Yukon Territory

Jan 9, 2020

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

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
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Building Social Infrastructure Report

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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A milestone report

The Milestone Report and Three Year Retrospective Review reflects on the developments made to accelerate and scale the social impact of higher education since the launch of the 2017 discussion paper (see above) through the lens of seven social impact initiatives. The report is poised to help higher education institutions play an even stronger role in achieving a thriving future.

Read our Milestone Report

Project Showcase

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

Guidelines for Integrating Social Purpose into Institutional Strategic Plans

Re-Code has developed practical and comprehensive guidelines for integrating social infrastructure into university and college strategic plans. 

Charting a Path for Social Purpose Finance and Administration

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

Presidents’ Narrative on the Role of Universities in Society

Presidents’ Dialogue on the Value of Community Engagement In May 2020, to commemorate three years since the Roundtable on Social Infrastructure that set these conversations in motion, Simon Fraser University, the University of St. Michael’s College and the McConnell Foundation hosted a Presidents’ Roundtable on the Value of Community Engagement This discussion was designed as […]

Build Back Better: The Role of Post-Secondary Institutions in Supporting Community Resilience

COVID-19 has demonstrated our collective need for increased social, economic and environmental resilience. This pandemic has often been framed as a ‘rehearsal’ – only one of many future crises. In this context, we have a collective imperative to rebuild our communities in ways that help us better weather future challenges. Supporting recovery and rebuilding requires […]

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.

Social Innovation Lab on Reconciliation in Postsecondary

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

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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.

Queen’s University

Round 1 Recipient

Scaling up of existing activities, such as boot camps, courses, workshops and case writing, and the creation of a Social Impact Academy and a Social Impact Lab.

Niagara College Canada

Empowering students to create systemic change in the Niagara Region. Providing experiential learning opportunities for student-led social innovation.

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.

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.

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.

University of Victoria, Camosun College, and Royal Roads University

Round 1 Recipient

Strengthen collaborative relationships and initiatives of post-secondary institutions, community, industry, and government that reinforce an enterprise approach to social innovation on Vancouver Island.

University of British Columbia

Round 1 Recipient

Expand e@UBC accelerator programs to directly support social ventures from idea stage to first revenues. Create seed investment support for new UBC-affiliated social and impact startups.

HEC Montréal

Round 1 Recipient

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

Carleton University

Round 1 Recipient

Leverage institutional experience for capacity building and development of new tools in social finance and regional economic development.

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