When you succeed, the world succeeds

Submitted by Tonya Surman on January 16, 2013 - 12:38pm

Happy New Year!

So here is the thing! After nearly 9 years of pushing the social innovation agenda, toiling to define social enterprise, pushing policy, and challenging the sector to think outside the box, they are finally catching up with us!

It's kind of cool to see the shifts in the world since CSI started. Now we have social innovation in the media, whole publications focused on social enterprise, banks winning impact investing awards, funders creating funding envelopes focused on social ventures, and ministers desperately looking for brilliant social finance strategies. We sure have come a long way. But this is no time to sit on our laurels. Now is the time to crank up the volume.

2012 was an intense year of growth and change for CSI. We opened CSI Regent Park, and started the intense process of opening a space in New York City @ Starrett-Lehigh.

2013 is going to be amazing. We are working on some exciting projects that I hope will make your life that much more impactful. We are more motivated than ever to help you accelerate your success.

Fundamentally, CSI is a platform - an ecosystem really - offering culture and tools that are there to help you to do your work better. Why? Because we so deeply believe that your work matters. We believe that when you succeed, the world succeeds. That's why we do what we do.

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Comments

Stay Together

Submitted by Jarvis Emerald (not verified) on January 18, 2013 - 7:23am.

I agree that playing with a concept of providing a space with the hopes of fostering new ideas is a tricky one with regards to supporting financially. The cause is great and revolutionary and I hope that CSI will continue to flourish at the right pace to allow for it. keep up the good work.

the rural world perspective

Submitted by david brydges (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 9:39pm.

Tonya with her visionary entrepreneurship has certainly moved the paradigm posts on social innovation.Whenever i 'm in Toronto drop into the Bathurst or Spadina centres to chat, take a course, and drink all of the creative juices in the air.As a poet constantly hunting for inspirations and whatever sticks. Recycling in a micro-way from an old mining town outpost called Cobalt in Northern Ontario ideas and ideals to help inspire a rural renaissance in cultural innovation.
Keep blazing those bold trails for you are impacting the world. Your northern rural neighbours do much appreciate your successes. dave
mybrydges@yahoo.ca