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By Charlotte Bondy, CSI Reporter

It’s safe to say that most of us wear clothes. In fact, I might even go so far as to suggest that the donning of garments is, for everyone, a quotidian task. This might seem like a banal observation, but for Kelly Drennan, founding executive director of Fashion Takes Action, it provides the foundation of her initiative.

By Odette Hutchings, Communications Assistant at Action Against Hunger

Former high school teacher Ryan Burwell reflects on what he’s learned at CSI, and how these lessons can help revolutionize education.

By Ryan Burwell

By Leah Pollock, Program Coordinator

At the Centre for Social Innovation, we have always facilitated an environment of growth through community. Whether it’s through intentional events like Six Degrees of Social Innovation or through collaboration by osmosis, we have seen member projects grow and transform through the relationships they form.

By Heather Laird, Dean of Awesome

By Victoria Alleyne, Executive Director at Career Skills Incubator

By Maria Karpenko, CSI Reporter

Just how powerful can stories be? Jo Altilia had always thought of stories as a force for good, but she experienced the full extent of their power at a poetry reading in Chicago many years ago when a woman, inspired by the poem “Black Goddess”, was finally able to kick out her abusive boyfriend.

By Lisa Ferguson, CSI Reporter

Imagine having the opportunity to help define and build a new type of market. It’s not yet clear who the key players are going to be. You get to create some of the first research, first products and first deals. You get to shape the future.

By Lisa Ferguson, CSI Reporter

Actor Daniel Stolfi was undergoing chemotherapy treatment when he started writing a one-man comedy show about cancer. His friends and family thought he was crazy. No one was going to laugh at cancer, they told him.

By Lisa Ferguson, CSI Reporter

There is no doubt Regent Park is in a period of massive transformation. The revitalization of Regent Park is converting what was once Canada’s oldest and largest social housing complex into a mixed-income, mixed-use community.

But change is happening beyond the cranes and bulldozers, and has been happening long before construction started.

“I think if you search you could see many, many examples of the change that residents themselves are making,” says Adonis Huggins.