Have you seen the V8 commercial where the person smacks themselves on their forehead with the realization that they “could have had a V8”? Well, in December 2007, SiG@MaRS, along with our partners at The Boston Consulting Group, Centre for Social Innovation and (what...
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 – the systems...
Shortly after Peter Wahome’s family moved from central Kenya to the densely populated Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, he ventured into the downtown core. There, this young teenager literally hatched a scheme that altered the course of his life and, ultimately,...
Canada has a rich history of social enterprise, especially seen through the lens of Quebec’s social economy or the broader community economic development movement. Less well developed is a nationally scaled social enterprise and social finance movement, which has not...
Interest in social innovation is growing. It needs to. Our societies are facing some of the greatest challenges of our time: increasing inequality, rising poverty rates, the instability of the economy, climate change, and a plethora of other issues. At the same time,...
