In response to requests from VPs of Administration and Finance, we created, tested, and launched this downloadable “Workshop in a Box.” It is designed to make it easy for these leaders and their teams to host an orientation workshop to understand the emerging concept of social purpose administration and finance.
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.
On June 12 2018, in Vancouver, BC, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s RECODE initiative and CAUBO co-hosted two back-to-back workshops on the Social Purpose Administration and Finance Framework at CAUBO’s annual conference. The purpose of the workshops was to provide an overview of the framework and engage finance and administration professionals on opportunities and challenges to advance social impact in their functions and mandates. This is a summary of the discussion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Report on our pre-Indigenous Innovation Summit dialogue on supporting Indigenous social entrepreneurship, which includes discussion notes, insights, observations, & suggestions for next steps.
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.