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Free Workshop for Nonprofits Your Legal Obligations under the AODA

Constance Exley Thursday, May 10, 2012 CSI Spadina ...

Event - Anonymous - Apr 24 2012 - 12:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Federal government and non profits inch toward issuing social impact bonds

Canadian Press Heather Scoffield Mar 15 2012  OTTAWA – Social impact bonds – a radical approach to funding social programs – are just a step away from becoming a reality in Canada. But it's a big step. Non-profit organizations ...

Blog Entry - Barnabe Geis - Mar 21 2012 - 4:48pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collective Impact: The Environment & Our Diverse Society

Sonia Dong Friday, June 3, 2011 Evergreen Brick Works ...

Event - Anonymous - May 10 2011 - 4:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Community Bonds for Ontario??

Taking an innovation to scale is tough... but some ideas have real resonance... we think Community Bonds have the magic to go to scale... but we need some help... 1.  Learn about CSI's community bond ... buy one and rip off the idea for your ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Dec 13 2010 - 8:07am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Social Finance Census 2010

Yesterday, the The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), an incubated project at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) and the Social Venture Exchange (SVX), an initiative of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS, jointly released the first ever ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Dec 8 2010 - 2:17pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

DIY Community - Turning Ideas into Reality

Finding a better way to get things done. It's become the rallying-cry of the past few years. From community gardens to the election of Barack Obama, people are fired up about the idea that they can play a role in altering - in improving - ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Sep 11 2012 - 4:51pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

ONN Seeks Network Director / Kick Ass Network Choreographer and Policy Innovator

One of my proudest roles is as the Co-Chair of the Ontario Nonprofit Network . ONN is both a member of CSI and one of our amazing incubated projects. What ONN has been able to achieve in 3 short years is incredible and now we need to find an amazing ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Nov 17 2010 - 11:01am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Ontario recognizes Commercial Activities – Can we Celebrate Please?

On Oct 19th, the Ontario government passed Bill 65. In this bill, the Ontario government has done something absolutely tremendous. They have recognized ‘commercial activities’ and opened the door for social enterprise to thrive in Ontario. Now, ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Nov 10 2010 - 7:34pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

A Social Innovation Strategy for Ontario

What could we achieve together, if our communities had funded social innovation labs, the OPS had a social innovation unit and the 2 groups then talked together, with others, to begin to actually start exploring how social innovation could address some ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Oct 29 2010 - 7:18am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Community Bonds: A Social Finance Innovation

Working in partnership with members of the Ontario Social Economy Roundtable and the Ontario Nonprofit Network, CSI is pleased to present our briefing to the Provincial Partnership Project. In this paper, we are inviting the province to clarify and ...

Blog Entry - Tonya Surman - Oct 28 2010 - 4:15pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

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