A Glimpse of Social Innovation

in Canada

Registered Disability Savings Plan

Total  deposits  to  date:  $1  Billion    More  than  75,000  RDSP’s  since  Dec  2008    

   SOCIAL INNOVATION SPECTRUM CANADA

MICRO SMALL SCALE, COMMUNITY,

KAIZEN, INCREMENTAL

MACRO WHOLE SYSTEM CHANGE,

TRI-SECTOR DISRUPTIVE  

MESO MID SCALE,

CROSS-SECTOR  

Jane’s Walk,

Inner City Renovation

s- Social Enterprise

Fund

Centre for Social

Innovation

Food Banks, The

Hub, 10 Carden

CSI’s Community

Bonds

Centre for Impact

Investing; SVX

Social Venture

Exchange

Great Bear Rainforest, Pathways

for Education, Counter-

parts

Canada Impact Fund

Centre for Natural

Care

RDSP, Micro-finance

Sustainable Food Lab, Solutions

Lab

SOCIAL INNOVATIONS GROUPED ALONG THE SPECTRUM

“SI is an initiative, product, process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful SIs have durability and broad impact. While SI has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a

dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and deliberate agency, and a connection between the two.

The capacity of any society to create a steady flow of SIs,

particularly those which re-engage vulnerable populations, is an important contributor to the overall social and ecological

resilience.”

-Frances Westley  

Social Innovation Defined

Thought Leadership

u   Task  Force  in  2  Federal  Budgets  

 u   2  Provinces  Enacted  Hybrid  Corporate  Forms  

 u   Government  Business  Support  Programs  Changed  to  Include  Social  Enterprise  

 u   2  Provinces  Commit  to  Social  Impact  Bonds  

 u   Social  Enterprise  Funds  Started  or  Expanded  in  5  Provinces  

SiG 1.0

The Systems Entrepreneur SiG 2.0

11  

Innovators Key

stake- holders

Capacity

Solutions Design Define

Early Majority

Early Adopters

Test Scale  

Show future

Build evidence

New policies Frame

Public policy

Syst

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hang

e

MaRS Solutions Lab, Joeri van den Steenhoven

The Lab Approach

Canadian Labs

D. Studio

The Energy Institute

Solutions  Lab  

The Role of Foundations & Philanthropy

The Role of Policy Policy Levers for Tipping Systems

BC’s  First  Minister  of  

Social  Innova5on  

Don  McRae  

Breakthrough Canada Events 2013/14

Toronto (2), Vancouver,

Vancouver BC May 28-30 7th Annual SIX sigeneration.ca

2014

SIX SUMMER INSTITUTE

Entering the Spirit Canoe to journey the Sacred

Headwaters