2018 has been busy so far and we're delighted to be kicking off a number of new projects in strategic planning, facilitation, collective impact, and Innoweave's Impact and Strategic Clarity module. In the coming months, we will be updating this space more often to share what we're learning. We are grateful to all the community [...]
Innoweave is running a free series of workshops across Canada this fall. The link is for the Toronto and York region event on October 2, but please check here for events across the country. Impact Accelerators get leaders thinking about the impact their organizations are making in the world and unpack processes and tools to [...]
This is a beautiful and helpful resource, from the McConnell Foundation, reflecting on lessons (un)learned in the past year of philanthropy. With some great examples, the piece shares the foundation's experiences with 'small and large efforts to challenge the deeply held beliefs that stand in the way of a better world.' We highly recommend it. [...]
Successful collective action requires clarity and trust. Organizations that are clear about the impact they are trying to have themselves are much better at collaborating with others. An ability to demonstrate competence, reliability and honesty are foundational to earning trust from others. Trust Defined Trust is a big concept. Even defining it is hard. In [...]
Social Impact Advisors has been working on our launch and B Corp certification since March this year with the help of an amazing young man. Evgeny Bezlyudnyy came to us through AIESEC at the University of Toronto. He is finishing his undergraduate degree at Akademika Anokhina in Moscow and will be starting his Masters degree [...]
A day long training workshop with Sally Fazal and Lynn Fergusson of Social Impact Advisors (www.socialimpactadvisors.ca), an organization which works with not-for-profit organizations, foundations and companies to define and focus on the social impact they aim to achieve, and develop the strategies and actions to make it happen. The goal for the day will be [...]
I look forward to the day when more of us will answer the question "How are you?" with something besides "Busy." So many not-for-profits are operating on a shoestring and their leaders are so busy keeping the lights on and putting out fires there is no time left over to think. Without some strategic clarity [...]
We are delighted to announce our new partnership – Social Impact Advisors. We have been collaborating for years on our client work, from sharing our client journeys, outcomes, and lessons learned, to jointly developing and delivering workshops. We will continue to coach/facilitate with the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s program, Innoweave, delivering Impact & Strategic Clarity, [...]
Hard at work at the Learning Circle, at Foundation House. Sally & Lynn recently led a Learning Circle for Innoweave’s Youth CI Mar 29th, 2017, engaging Collective Impact groups at various stages to share their insights, challenges and successes. These collectives are groups of cross-sector organizations coming together to solve challenging issues in [...]
Good strategy, by definition, includes the outcomes an organization will hold itself accountable for achieving. The better we can measure performance, the better we can evaluate our strategy and adjust or adapt it to achieve the outcomes we want for the people or causes we serve. Many factors go into the success of an organization. [...]