by doverall | Nov 28, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
This session was moderated by Eva Friesen, President and CEO, The Calgary Foundation and featured: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Michael Lenczner, CEO, Ajah Brian Walsh, Executive Director, Liquidnet For Good Transcript of session: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society: My job is to orient you all to this space and since I don’t have the privilege of knowing you, I have no idea what you already know, so bear with me. The theme is “open data and impact” and I want to give you the opportunities that I see for building new enterprises and changing the way existing enterprises work, understanding that data are a fundamentally different and new raw material, but it’s really Michael and Brian who are out there doing this right now. I’m in academia thinking about it. First, I’m going to tell you a story that I just heard last week. It has to do with Syria. There was this horrible chemical weapons attack on a school in a city in Syria, and Human Rights Watch has volunteers on the ground throughout the world. Folks in Syria, and they have a person and a half – full time equivalent person and a half – who try to understand, using social media and online information, what’s going on in the countries that they’re watching for human rights abuses. There’s clear evidence of chemical weapons, crimes against humanity, a human rights abuse. It’s right in their sweet spot and they’re trying to figure out where the chemical weapons came from and who used...
by doverall | Nov 27, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
This session looked at social enterprise policy development with a rural lens. This international panel of intermediaries and practitioners presented and discussed the features of a social enterprise policy framework that would meet the needs of rural communities. This session was moderated by Catherine Lang, Principal, C. Lang Consulting and featured: Paul Cabaj, Director of Co-op Development, Alberta Community and Co-operative Association Mary Ferguson, Principal, Eko Nomos Kevin Fong, Managing Director, Goolarri Media Enterprises A special thanks to session sponsor Enterprising Non-Profits (enp) Canada. Transcript of session: Mary Ferguson: I am going to be covering four areas as quickly as I can, because I don’t have very much time. I am going to talk a little bit about what we’ve learned through and experienced while we’ve been working in rural Ontario, so what are some of the learning that’s coming out of that experience. I am going to talk about the current Ontario strategy. Then, because I am sucker for punishment, I am starting to do my PhD in rural social enterprise, and so I am going to provide a few summary points of the literature review that I have been doing and then I’ll provide some reflections. First I am going to set the Ontario context; it’s a province in the country, and in that province the nonprofit sector generates over $50 billion, or 7% of the GDP. It is a very important economic contributor and employs above 530,000 and a bunch of part-time people. When you compare that to the agricultural sector, there are 164,000 jobs in Ontario related to agricultural sector. I think Cathy already mentioned that...
by doverall | Nov 27, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
Too often practitioners and researchers find themselves on either side of a linguistic, technical, and cultural divide. Building on a pre-SEWF 2013 research day at Mount Royal University, this session looks at how then can this relationship be explored in a way that honours the contribution of both researchers and practitioners. This session was moderated by Tina Dacin, Director, Centre for Social Impact, Queen’s School of Business and featured: Marie J. Bouchard, Professor, Chair of the Canada social economy research, L’Université du Québec à Montréal Brendan Reimer, Regional Coordinator, Canadian CED Network Simon Teasdale, Senior Lecturer, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University A special thanks to session sponsor Enterprising Non-Profits (enp) Canada. Unfortunately, only the remarks of Ms Bouchard were recorded. Transcript of Marie J. Bouchard’s remarks: Marie Bouchard: I’m very pleased that I was invited to this conference. This is my first Social Enterprise World Forum, my first time ever in Calgary so I’m really happy and I thank the organizers for inviting me. I will present a few projects in which we produce research with the partnership of social actors. So it’s with great humility that I will present this limited experience that we have, but it may give an idea of what we talk about when we talk about partnership research. In Canada this research model, which is according to scientists a new research model, you study inside the conception of the project. It has been supported by the Canadian Research Council for many years. We’ve created community university research partnerships for ten years on the social economy and on other topics....
by doverall | Nov 26, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
In this session public sector leaders and key practitioners took turns spending three to four minutes identifying their three key public policy “must do’s” to help social enterprise maximize its potential. This was followed by a free flowing discussion and then a twenty minute Q&A with the audience. Moderating the session was Peter Holbrook, CEO, Social Enterprise UK. The session included Derek Gent, Executive Director, Vancity Community Foundation; Molly Harrington, Assistant D.M., Policy & Research Div., Ministry of Social Development, Government of BC Katherine Hewson, Assistant Deputy Minister for Open for Business, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development Trade and Employment and the Ministry of Research and Innovation Johanne Lavoie, Commissioner, Social Economy Bureau, City of Montreal Mairi MacKay, Director of Society, British Council in East Asia Neil McLean, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Academy Yvonne Strachan, Head of the Third Sector, Equality and Community Empowerment, Scottish Government John Walker, Director General, Community Development and Partnerships Directorate, Employment and Social Development Canada A special thanks to session sponsor Enterprising Non-Profits (enp) Canada. Transcript of session: Moderator: Peter Holbrook, CEO, Social Enterprise UK: The UK has had approximately ten years of public policy developments on social enterprise and they have been critical. There is no magic bullet, no single policy that is required. However, with that said, wherever I go around the world it strikes me that the issues and barriers social enterprises face can be very similar from one country to another. Katherine Hewson, Assistant Deputy Minister for Open for Business, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development Trade and Employment and the Ministry of Research and Innovation: Ontario has just issued a...
by doverall | Oct 10, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
This session targeted three key mindsets that cut across so many opportunities and challenges facing social enterprises and everyone else dedicated to social impact – themes that enabled our attendees to not only make the most of their daily efforts, but make the most of their interactions at SEWF 2013. The three themes were: Social Innovation, The Surprising Power of Empathy, and Living Rhythms: What Social Enterprise Can Learn From Aboriginal Culture. The session was moderated by Dr. Lucy Miller, United Way of Calgary and Area; and featured Mary Gordon, Roots of Empathy; Ilse Treurnicht, MaRS Discovery District; and Dr. Wanda Wuttunee, Professor, director of the Aboriginal Business Education Partners, Asper School of Business. A special thanks to session sponsor Suncor Energy. Below you will find videos of the introduction from Lucy, each speakers’ comments, and greetings from Suncor Energy. More About SEWF The Trico Charitable Foundation was honoured to host SEWF 2013. It made history in a number of ways – it was a first for Canada and attracted a record number of speakers and attendees (1,000 individuals from more than 30 countries and over 100 speakers from 20 countries) – but we are most proud of the quality of the discussions on Skills Building, Social Finance, Indigenous Social Enterprise, Collaboration, Policy and Research, and Social Innovation. A special thanks to Photos With Finesse by Suzan McEvoy for the pictures, BizBOXTV for producing the videos, and Employment and Social Development Canada for helping to make this post-event coverage possible. We would also like to thank the following partners for making SEWF 2013 possible: Organizing Partners: Social Enterprise Council of Canada...
by doverall | Oct 8, 2014 | Social Enterprise World Forum 2013
We hoped ‘impact’ would be a crucial component of the conversations throughout all of SEWF 2013, but we wanted to put that primacy of purpose front and centre. As a result, we took a page out of Stephen Covey’s iconic book and began SEWF 2013 with a deliberate focus on the end point of everything we do, ‘impact’. The opening plenary looked at impact from three angles – creating it, measuring it, and collaborating to take it to the next level. The session was moderated by Gerry Higgins, CEO, Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEiS); and featured Al Etmanski, Co-founder, Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network; Craig Kielburger, Co-Founder, Free The Children and Me to We; and Anne Jamieson, Manager, Toronto Enterprise Fund. A special thanks to session sponsor Vancity. Below you will find videos of the introduction from Gerry, each speaker except Craig’s (policies of Free The Children prevent the publication of his video), and greetings from Vancity and the Vancity Community Foundation. More About SEWF The Trico Charitable Foundation was honoured to host SEWF 2013. It made history in a number of ways – it was a first for Canada and attracted a record number of speakers and attendees (1,000 individuals from more than 30 countries and over 100 speakers from 20 countries) – but we are most proud of the quality of the discussions on Skills Building, Social Finance, Indigenous Social Enterprise, Collaboration, Policy and Research, and Social Innovation. A special thanks to Photos With Finesse by Suzan McEvoy for the pictures, BizBOXTV for producing the videos, and Employment and Social Development Canada in helping to make this...
