During the CICan Annual Conference, the Presidents’ Leadership Network held a session titled “Imagine the Future of Colleges and Institutes.”

Participants discussed ways colleges and institutes can meet the needs of their learners, partners and communities, in the face of contemporary social issues.
Read the key points in this Aide-Memoire.

In July 2018, RECODE and Ashoka Canada convened higher ed changemakers from across Canada to build community on Wasan Island.

This report contains the key retreat takeaways and next steps. This includes site visits, resource sharing, and future convenings. It also includes actions for building new partnerships that test innovations.

by RECODE

On May 2, 2018 BCIT and the McConnell Foundation hosted a Roundtable Discussion with three college and institute administrators based in Greater Vancouver, for the purposes of discussing trends, barriers and opportunities in social purpose administration and finance within the colleges and institutes sector. Administrators from the BC Association of Universities and Institutes were invited.

by Coro Strandberg

On April 26, 2018, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s RECODE initiative and CAUBO hosted a workshop with 22 senior leaders in administration and finance in Western universities. The purpose of the workshop was to present on the Social Purpose Administration and Finance Framework, get feedback on the initiative, and identify collaboration opportunities to overcome barriers and scale social purpose administration within post-secondary institutions, if desired.

by RECODE

With hackED (originally RECODE Collaborate), RECODE’s first major
student-facing initiative, we decided to work directly with students to try and build a movement.
hackED was an effort to: a) create a network of student leaders across the country; and b) develop local chapters that would meet regularly to make change on their campuses. How did it go?

by Ryan Murphy

On March 15, 2018 Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s RECODE initiative co‐hosted a workshop following-up on the October 2017 roundtable where twenty-four presidents and VPs from colleges and institutes had animated discussions on the role that their institutions play in addressing key issues of our time and considered opportunities to work together in ways that are deliberate and intentional to increase impact on communities.

by CICan & RECODE

On October 31, 2017, Simon Fraser University, the University of New Brunswick and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation hosted a Roundtable discussion on University Administration Perspectives on Building Social Infrastructure. Here’s an aide-mémoire of the event by RECODE.

by RECODE

A list of sample initiatives of institutions mobilizing their financial and physical assets to enhance community wellbeing.

by RECODE & Coro Strandberg

Last year, RECODE collaborated with the Trico Charitable Foundation and the Skoll Centre at Oxford to be the first country to hold the competition on a national level. How did it go?

by Daniela Papi-Thornton & RECODE

How do you teach systems leadership? RECODE partnered with Daniela Papi-Thornton to create a guide for educators interested in integrating the Impact Gaps Canvas and Map the System in their course offerings.

by Daniela Papi-Thorton & RECODE

CICan’s Aide-Mémoire from the roundtable with college presidents on building social infrastructure held on October 1, 2017.

by CICan & RECODE

MIT MOOC – see the world in new ways and practice a method that allows leaders, entire organizations, and larger social systems to connect with and actualize their highest future possibility.

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the size, scope and scale of the impact investment sector.

by Jana Svedova, Alfonso Cuyegkeng, and James Tansey

Report examines how universities and other higher education institutions around the world are collaborating and engaging with social enterprises.

by British Council

The Impact Reporting platform allows RECODE to collect, analyze, gain insights, and report on trends within and across all schools.

RECODE Collaborate is a student-led, national program designed to engage students through collaboration and dialogue on the future of higher education in Canada.

by RECODE

The first issue of The Ashoka Journal, a collection of articles, thought pieces and insights from the Ashoka global network.

by Ashoka

Insight into B.C.’s social venture sector from a labour market perspective. This report provides information on the key issues and challenges facing social ventures and offers recommendations on the actions needed to facilitate further development of the sector across the province.

by Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.

A deep dive into models of social innovation hubs across North America.

by Scaled Purpose

Webinar discussion with Scaled Purpose co-directors Miles DePaul and Sean Campbell to explore their findings from the recently released Scaled Purpose and Mount Royal University report: Where to Begin: How Social Innovation is Emerging Across Canadian Campuses.

by RECODE

A webinar with Simon Fraser University’s Shawn Smith and Groundswell’s Gilad Babchuk to discuss the design of SFU Surrey’s ReSchool event as a model for a hands-on conference and design sprint.

by RECODE

Interested in further building social infrastructure on your campus, but not sure where to start? Social procurement allows institutions to mobilize their purchasing power and decisions to increase community well being. In our latest resource for post-secondary institutions, we discuss social procurement strategies and how you can implement it at your school.

by RECODE & Tessa Hebb

Host Cheryl Rose walks us through the key questions involved in designing a campus change strategy.

by RECODE

Webinar discussion with SoJo’s AJ Tibando and Riipen’s Dana Stephenson to learn how their social businesses can support RECODE work on campus.

by RECODE

Karina LeBlanc and Jakob Wildman-Sisk share their experience bringing New Brunswick’s first public social innovation lab to life—an initiative that leverages multi-sector expertise in order to understand the region’s most pressing challenges and co-create solutions for them.

by RECODE

Detailed set of step-by-step, practical recommendations for the design and delivery of a Social Innovation Lab.

by Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation (WISIR)

This course is illustrated by a series of problem-based case studies on migration in China, Mexico, and Germany/Europe. These cases demonstrate how social action and business leadership can exert positive impact on some of the unique challenges posed by mass migration.

by Global Entrepreneurship Summer School

This guide is based on the Foundation’s internal due-diligence process and it offers a framework to assess impact and financial risk and return of potential investment opportunities.

by Sophie Méchin, Solutions Finance Officer and Erica Barbosa Vargas, Director of Solutions Finance

This report is one of several that describe the assets, gaps and community feedback to guide our collective direction forward.

by Fiona Friesen, Royal Roads University

Results of a Canada-wide research project on leadership learning for social change.

by James Stauch and Lesley Cornelisse, Mount Royal University

Ilona Dougherty outlines how educators and those working with young leaders and innovators can better support them

by RECODE

Explore the key findings from our Post-Secondary Education Mapping Survey, which asked students, professors, campus leadership, and diverse stakeholders how can the post-secondary sector better support innovation?

by RECODE

Check out The importance of play, a TED Talks playlist featuring eight talks on play as a driver of creativity, collaboration and thinking outside of the box.

by TED Talks

Webinar with Mount Royal University’s James Stauch and Lesley Cornelisse to discuss their recently released report Strengthening Community Leadership Learning: Results of a Canada-wide research project on leadership learning for social change.

by RECODE

Highlighting the major outcomes of the Vancouver Island Social Innovation Zone’s (VISIZ) pilot Social Innovation Cohort, which matched selected social innovation initiatives with fnancial support, and partially funded fulltime co-op students between January-April 2016.

by Vancouver Island Social Innovation Zone

Providing students the tools to build sustainable local economies. Delivered part-time, over eight weeks, the program gets people active in their communities, offering a unique opportunity to grow professional networks.

The Foundation is embracing solutions finance after a decade of supporting the development of social finance and the impact investing marketplace in Canada, learning from various successes and failures in managing impact investments.

by Erica Barbosa Vargas, Director of Solutions Finance

The purpose of this discussion paper is to provide an understanding of opportunities for post-secondary institutions across Canada at the intersection of entrepreneurship and Indigenous communities.

by recode

Webinar with Erin Freeland Ballantyne, Executive Director of the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning—a northern-led initiative delivering land-based, University of Alberta-credited educational experiences led by northern leaders, experts, elders and professors.

by recode

RECODE Webinar on Constructive Engagement, with Innoweave’s Ryan Conway.

by recode

Webinar discussion with the Advocacy School’s Sean Moore. Sean shars some of the benefits of advocating for a field, the challenges of doing so, and shares some examples of effective advocacy in the Canadian context.

by recode

This report describes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of an evaluation of the
LabWISE program. This initiative, which ran from mid-2016 to late 2017, aimed to strengthen the
capacity of social innovators to employ a Social Innovation Lab approach to address tough
problems in their communities.

by Mark Cabaj

This study examines the benefits and challenges of partnership between higher education institutions and social enterprises in Canada. It is one of 12 country – and territory – level studies that informed the report “Social enterprise in a global context: the role of higher education institutions”.

by British Council

Information session to learn more about running the Global Challenge at your school. We’ll be joined by the Skoll Centre to answer questions and guide you through the process.

by RECODE

A webinar with freelance writer Dave Lank to learn strategies for effective online writing.

by RECODE

Report on our pre-Indigenous Innovation Summit dialogue on supporting Indigenous social entrepreneurship, which includes discussion notes, insights, observations, & suggestions for next steps.

by junxion strategy for recode

Field Notes is a visual reflection of the learnings from schools and partners, and a glimpse into a much larger story of what’s happening on campuses across Canada.

by RECODE

Webinar with the Local Economic Development Lab‘s (LEDlab) Program Manager Kiri Bird, where she’ll share the details of their Mitacs partnership and funding model.

by RECODE

Providing loans with a 15-year capital repayment moratorium. This quasi-patient capital is designed to support enterprises’ operations and contribute to their real estate

This report recaps a July 2017 that brought together representatives from multiple postsecondary institutions and supporting organizations from higher education across Canada.

by RECODE

In our new discussion paper we explore how higher education institutions can harness and leverage their assets (financial, physical, relational, research and education) to build social infrastructure that will positively impact communities and advance societal well-being.

by Coro Strandberg, commissioned by Recode and Simon Fraser University