Join the National Social R&D Practice Gathering Design Team
We are excited to work with as designers and facilitators for the 2021 National Practice Gathering. If you want to be part of the design team for the Spring convening, please express your interest!
Social R&D Storytelling Podcast
The Social RnD Community is a group of practitioners dedicated to finding creative solutions to tackle complex challenges. This podcast highlights case studies of social RnD in practice and features storytellers from the National Social RnD Practice Gathering held virtually in June 2020.
RFP: Open Call for Knowledge Products
This particular open call for proposals is a recognition that we don’t know what we don’t know. We want to hear from you on your ideas and proposals for knowledge products that will serve the social R&D field. These may address some of the topics and needs indicated above, but we are also really interested in out of the box ideas and proposals.
RFP: Accessibility of Social RnD
The Social R&D Community is a network of practitioners dedicated to growing the craft of research and development in the social sector. Social R&D practitioners use creative approaches to generate new knowledge and innovations (services, programs, initiatives or products) to address complex social, environmental and cultural challenges.
RFP: Equitable Social R&D
It is vital that we ensure diverse voices are represented and celebrated in the fields of social R&D and social innovation. It is also important that we seek to challenge the confines that make practitioners of diverse backgrounds not feel welcome or that they can’t contribute their perspectives. Lastly, we need to demystify some of the language of social innovation and develop resources that resonate with community members.
Sharing Learnings: How to Centre, Amplify and Support Immigrant Women’s Voices
By Andrea Solnes (Learning Journeys Lead), Sandrine Espie (Pacific Immigrant Resources Society: Immigrant Services Learning Journeys Lead & Women’s Leadership Coordinator), Annelies Tjebbes (Learning Journeys Workshop Facilitator). Introduction Learning Journeys: Pathways for and with Immigrant Women is a 2-year social research and development project funded by IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada). Learning Journeys brings together newcomer women,…
Help Shape a Social R&D Prototype Evaluation Guide
Social Innovation Canada and Mark Cabaj (Here to There Consulting) are developing a guide to assist social innovators evaluate the prototypes that they use to develop and test promising ideas.
“Oops, we forgot the keynote”
Breaking the mold of an online conference By Annelies Tjebbes with support from the gathering design team On June 16th and 17th, the social R&D community in Canada came together for a 2 day gathering to learn from and with one another. The global context within which we gathered was a challenging one, amidst a…