Toronto-based TurnAround Couriers is working with George Brown College with a view to helping with the ongoing educational needs of its staff. Going forward, all couriers joining TurnAround Couriers will attend courses at GBC, whether it is high school upgrading programs or degree programs.

MaRS Discovery District announced that substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.

Enterprising Non-Profits (enp) and Capital One Canada announced a new program designed to provide Canadian youth and non-profits servicing youth access to funds to build and sustain social enterprises.

Three social entrepreneurs have been recognized as US Social Entrepreneurs of the Year by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship for their organization’s innovative work and social impact, joining a global network of leading social entrepreneurs from over 40 countries: Darell Hammond, KaBOOM!; Elizabeth Hausler, BuildChange; Dan Viederman, Verité.

Visit www.schwabfound.org for more information.

The Global Social Change Film Festival seeks global narrative features and short films that engage with significant global social and environmental issues in unique, creative, educational, and action-inspiring ways.

Four Social EnterPrizes will be granted by the Trico Charitable Foundation at their upcoming conference, Enterprising Spirit: Creating Value and Social Good, on November 17th, 2011 in Calgary, Alberta. These awards will fall under the categories of organizational (two) awards and individual (two) awards.

The Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur (YSE) Competition is a global competition created by Staples Foundation and Ashoka to recognize exceptional young people using innovation and technology to advance social change and improve their community and the world. Young people (age 12-24), living anywhere in the world, are eligible to apply.

Apply online between June 22 and September 19, 2011.

Visit www.ashokayouthcompetition.org for more information.

From June 17-18, Change.org will host a 24-hour hackathon, “Hack for Change,” to create web and mobile applications to advance social change in partnership with Code for America and Mashable. The event aims to accelerate a growing movement of using the web to transform advocacy, philanthropy, government, and politics.

Visit www.hackforchange.com for more information.

The partnership of Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region (SVPWR) voted to select Strong Start, a Kitchener-based charity, as its first-ever investee organization. Strong Start will receive grants totalling $100,000 over the next three years, plus the time and professional expertise of more than 50 SVPWR partners.

Visit http://www.strongstart.ca for more information.

Each year the Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship to a small number of social entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s most pressing problems. The award includes a core support grant to the organization to be paid over three years and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur that is presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.