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On May 14, the Centre for Social Innovation hosted an event for Startup Canada entitled Starting up Social Innovation. Startup Canada is a national effort to build a more supportive environment for entrepreneurs and small business throughout our country.

Toronto Star, Carol Goar, May 01, 2012

This is time of great ferment in the non-profit sector. Every week or so a new organization pops up that stretches the boundaries of charity, blends altruism with entrepreneurship or shows that community work can be self-financing.

Documentary-makers are used to working outside the system. Now more than ever, many of them contend, the system for funding documentaries is working against them... read more. 

(From the Pembina Institute) 

This is my favorite time of the year in Regent Park; it’s sowing time in the community gardens that spring up in the green spaces at the foot of many of the old buildings. The gardens are not just for a show, by the summer, there will be peas, lettuce and a variety of garden vegetables.  The best thing of all is that the produce from the gardens will end up on many of the kitchen tables in the apartment buildings above.

The Everything Roof made another media appearance in Monday’s Metro newspaper. The Everything Roof is an initiative of the About Face Collective and an incubated CSI project. Lauren and Natalie of the About Face Collective came to CSI with a dream… to build an urban garden and community centre right on top of our heads at CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst Street.

Our lovely CSI member and CSI Food Constellation lead Aruna Handa was interviewed by the Globe and Mail about her company's initiative, Toronto Office Markets. This incredible initiative is getting fresh local foods to people right where they work, creating new distribution channels for those working in the good food sector. This is a part of a market transformation and a social innovation replacement strategy, replacing bad systems with good ones. Bravo Aruna!