View ArchivesSpotlight: Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation
Today's complex social challenges require the community, public, and private sectors to come together and collaborate to generate new solutions to persistent problems.
The new Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation, created by the University of Waterloo in partnership with the Foundation, will create a multi-sectoral platform for innovation. Participants in the program will:
- Become more creative and sophisticated systems-thinkers
- Learn to better identify, nurture and seize opportunities
- Build a national, cross-sectoral professional network
- Develop strategic skills and ways of thinking
- Effectively address major social challenges
Learn more about the program from its website.
Explore the Foundation's learning around social innovation through the following Spotlight Highlights.
Spotlight Highlights
Video
May 2010
Scaling Out for Scaling Up: Pathways for System Change
Frances Westley showcases a typology of community sector organizations and offers insights about their methodologies for scaling up.
Report
October 29, 2010
Primer on Social Innovation: A Compendium of Definitions Developed by Organizations around the World
A reference tool to help understand social innovation, social finance, and the vocabulary used to discuss the two. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
Report
November 1, 2010
Patterns, Principles, and Practices in Social Innovation
Explores various dimensions of the field of social innovation and discusses the evidence of its existence and its growth throughout the world. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
Publication
November 2006
Accelerating our Impact: Philanthropy, Innovation and Social Change
Contributes to an emerging body of knowledge and reflective practice on the role of funders in supporting innovation and social change.
Publication
February 2010
On Not Letting a Crisis Go to Waste: An Innovation Agenda for Canada's Community Sector
Explores some of the implications of the economic downturn for Canada’s community sector and argues that new models and approaches are urgently required to ensure the community sector's health and to maintain Canadians’ well-being.
Official Website
Learn more about the Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation and its application process
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