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September 2020
Unleashing Local Capital – Introduction to Community Bonds
Are you an organization looking for financial stability in a time of chaos? Are you an organization with broad community support for your mission and services? Looking for ways to your social capital into financial capital? Do you have a capital project on your organization's plans, such as buying your building, starting a housing project, a renovation and expansion – that has been too long in the waiting? We may have the solution! Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA), along...
Find out more »Investment Readiness Program Info Session
The Investment Readiness Program (IRP) is a new $50M fund that aims to help social purpose organizations’ (including charities, non-profits, social enterprises, for-profits with a social purpose, and co-operatives) to build their capacity to participate in Canada’s growing social finance market. The IRP is also designed to help social purpose organizations prepare for the Government of Canada’s broader investment in social finance via the Social Finance Fund, a historic new $755M commitment which was announced in November 2018" (Community Foundations...
Find out more »October 2020
Share: Connecting with Community in the Context of Social Distancing
How do we do social R&D in the context of a global pandemic? How do we connect the communities we serve in the context of social distance? 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.This fall there will be 4 monthly...
Find out more »Learn: Emerging Impact Measurement Systems
Learn about Emerging Impact Measurement Systems hosted with Ian Capstick of Secret Agents. 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.This fall there will be 4 monthly social R&D community of practice sessions that engage practitioners to Learn, Share and Build...
Find out more »November 2020
Social R&D and Investment Readiness Roundtable
How might we leverage social R&D practices to support Social Purpose Organizations towards investment readiness? You’re invited to a half-day online gathering of 40-60 leaders from the social finance sector and the social R&D sector to learn from each other’s work and identify how their two worlds can connect to reinforce one another. This gathering will:Build connections between these sectorsBridge these sectors in terms of language and way of working Identify concrete ways to collaborate on a common purpose (ie:...
Find out more »Share: Creative Practices from the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence
A Creative Practice session hosted by Helen Yung from the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence. 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.This fall there will be 4 monthly social R&D community of practice sessions that engage practitioners to Learn, Share and...
Find out more »December 2020
Learn: Insights from Exeko
A Learn session hosted by Nadia Duguay from Exeko 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.This fall there will be 4 monthly social R&D community of practice sessions that engage practitioners to Learn, Share and Build the field. Our December...
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