Resilience
November 15, 2010
Report: Regrouping, Recalibrating, Reloading: Strategies for Financing Civil Society in Post-recession Canada
This article provides strategies for the financing of civil society organizations. These strategies, elaborated on in the article, include regrouping, recalibrating, and reloading. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
November 1, 2010
Report: 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.
October 29, 2010
Report: Funding Social Innovation: How Do We Know What to Grow?
Explores systems change, scaling social innovations, and the role funders can play in these processes. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
October 29, 2010
Report: Determining the Value of Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Examines how Collaborative Community Initiatives, such as Vibrant Communities, are combining strategic action with systems-wide change to address poverty. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
October 29, 2010
Report: Creative Youth Empowerment: Engaging Our Youth Today to Unlock Tomorrow’s Leaders
Describes the start-up of Youth Fusion, a project that has graduate students leading programs for high school students at underperforming schools, and provides lessons learned during its growth. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
October 2010
Report: Vibrant Communities 2002-2010 Evaluation Report
Highlights key results and offers deeper understanding of the critical success factors, effectiveness and patterns identified through the Vibrant Communities experiment. Vibrant Communities is a national poverty reduction program.
September 2010
Video: The Case for Social Finance in Canada
Tim Draimin, Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG), introduces us to the world of social finance. Enabling the social finance marketplace is key to tackling Canada's social and environmental challenges—both through entrepreneurship and a more flexible national policy framework.
September 2010
Video: Finding Talent
Finding Talent, a video from the ALLIES-managed site hireimmigrants.ca and produced by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), is intended to increase the capacity for effectively recruiting, selecting and integrating skilled immigrants. It focuses on issues of sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection of skilled immigrant candidates.
July 2010
Report: The Sport Matters Group: “Un-organizing” the Future of Canada’s Not-for-Profit Sector
Examines the informal structure of the Sport Matters Group (SMG) and offers insights on its status as a “un-organization.” Explores the advantages of SMG’s unconventional structure and offers inspiration on adopting its “un-organizational” framework. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
July 2010
Publication: DE 201: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developmental Evaluation
Builds on the concepts outlined in A Developmental Evaluation Primer by articulating some of the key practices associated with this work.
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