What We Do | Re-Code

Our work extends far beyond the 26 universities and colleges that received Re-Code funding when we launched in 2014. Now, through various partnerships, activities, events, and learning cohorts, we work with almost 100 universities and colleges across the country.

Project Showcase

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

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 […]

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?

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.

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 2006 in the United States.