10am to 2pm Eastern Time
Northern College (Quill Lounge)

Timmins Changemakers Ignite: Social Entrepreneurship Pop-Up Lab Series

Discover new ways to create positive impact using business strategies

Uncover social entrepreneurship initiatives and funding streams in Northern Ontario! With interactive workshops from regional organizations that support local social enterprises, including SEE, SENO CoStarter for Change and Urban Indigenous Youth for Change.

Who should attend?

ALL WELCOME - particularly those interested in starting and supporting social enterprises, community organizations, students, service providers and entrepreneurial individuals!

What's on?

• Social Entrepreneurship 101 - Friday March 18, 10am-2pm, at Northern College (Quill Lounge) Find out what the term really means, how to get started and hear from organizations who support social entrepreneurs
• Attendance is FREE but registration is required.
• Lunch will be provided. Space is limited.

Register for Social Entrepreneurship 101

For more information, please contact Mélanie Watson at 705-360-5800 ext. 226 or melanie.watson at algomau.ca

About Social Entrepreneurship Evolution (SEE):

Social Entrepreneurship Evolution (SEE) is an emergent pan-northern collaborative whose focus is to support the infrastructure for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) with an emphasis on collaboration, shared measurement and collective impact.

About SENO CoStarter for Change:

Social Enterprise for Northern Ontario (SENO) CoStarter for Change supports the development of early-stage, high-growth social enterprises in Northern Ontario by offering social entrepreneurs access to capital, educational and support programs, workspace, and other services to help launch and grow their non-profit and for-profit ventures.

About Urban Indigenous Youth for Change (UIYFC):

The Urban Indigenous Youth for Change (UIYFC) pilot project will provide an in-depth opportunity to teach and learn from urban Indigenous youth how to incorporate cultural and land based learning with different types of entrepreneurship education, leading to increased and diverse participation in the social economy.

12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

Speakers: Brenton Caffin, Nesta and Tim Draimin, Social Innovation Generation (SIG) National 

Social change is difficult.  For years, organizations, networks and communities have been funded to deliver defined programs and services leading to individualized outcomes.  But these same organizations and networks are seeing the increased complexity and connectedness of the problems communities.  Complex problems require a different set of skills, leadership style and tools.  How do we gear up effectively for social impact?  What tools are needed in the tool kit for communities to navigate wicked problems and social dilemmas? 

Nesta is an organization that has been focused on sparking innovation in the UK.  It's range of activities have included sparking policy change, impact investing, developing new models for inclusive economic growth and citizen engagement in public service delivery.  In 2013, Nesta began developing a DIY Toolkit to help individuals and organizations scale social change.  

Join Brenton Caffin and Tim Draimin in a conversation about the DIY Toolkit, the lessons Nesta is learning about scaling social impact and how you can benefit from these tools and resources.                                                     

About Brenton Caffin

Brenton is Nesta’s Director of Innovation Skills, leading Nesta's work to help people and organisations get better at innovating for the common good.

Brenton is an innovative and strategic thinker and regularly presents to and advises national and global organisations, including UN agencies, on a wide range of issues relating to social and public sector innovation. He is an advisor to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and former board member of the global Social Innovation Exchange and the Institute for Public Administration Australia.

From 2009-2012, Brenton was the founding CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, and previously held executive positions with the South Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government Reform Commission and WorkCover. He began his career in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, later consulting to Australian and British governments on public policy, performance improvement and change management. Brenton was also previously seconded to the Home Office Strategic Policy Team.

About Tim Draimin

Tim is the Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SIG) National.  SiG is a partnership of The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District, and the University of Waterloo.  SiG acts a catalyst for strengthening the enabling ecosystem for social innovations to be able to go to scale and generate whole system change.  In 2010 SiG convened the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance, a blue ribbon panel that proposed a seven-point agenda for mobilizing private capital for public good influencing federal, provincial and municipal policy across Canada.

Tim was the founding CEO of Tides Canada Foundation and serves on the boards Trico Charitable Foundation, Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Partnership Brokers Association (PBA), and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Grand Challenges Canada (GCC). Tim is a senior advisor to the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (CII).

5:30pm to 8:00pm Eastern Time

PARO Centre, in partnership with Bombardier Transportation, is hosting an event in celebration of International Women's Day.

Join PARO to celebrate with interactive actitivites, inspiring speakers, northern women tribute, light refreshments and appetizers, and more...

Register for Designing for Equality

"Worldwide, women continue to contribute to social, economic, cultural and political achievement. But progess towards gender parity has slowed in many places. Everyone - men and women - can pledge to take a concrete step to help achieve gender parity more quickly - whether to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, call for gender-balanced leadership, respect and value difference, develop more inclusive and flexible cultures or root our workplace bias. Each of us can be leader within our own spheres of influence and commit to take pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity".*

* IWD 2016 webpage

5:30pm to 7:00pm Eastern Time
MaRS Discovery District - Auditorium
101 College Street

Who really moves things forward in our society and how do they do it? How have they always done it? Strategy guru Roger Martin and Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg make a compelling argument that social entrepreneurs are agents of change who recognize, in our current reality, various kinds of "equilibria"—systems in need of change—and then advance social progress by transforming these systems, ultimately replacing what exists with a new equilibrium.

Register for Global Leaders - Getting Beyond Better

Getting Beyond Better offers a bold new framework demonstrating how and why meaningful change actually happens in the world, and offering concrete lessons and a practical model for businesses, policy-makers and civil society organizations to generate new value, again and again.

About Roger Martin

Professor Roger Martin is a writer, strategy advisor and the former Dean and current Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.

8:30am to 10:30am Eastern Time
CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina, 4th floor
Alterna Savings Room

Baristas, telemarketers and clerks with university degrees, student loan debt, minimum wage jobs and precarious employment. Sound familiar? Many people have the knowledge, skills and drive to run their own businesses, and have friends and colleagues with similar interests. If you’d like to start a business with others, employee-owned co-ops may be the answer.

Participants will learn the steps for creating a successful employee-owned co-op and how these shared ownership enterprises have succeeded in creating jobs while contributing to community and environmental solutions.

Register for Baristas, Clerks & Geeks

8:30am to 10:30am Eastern Time
CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina, 4th floor
Alterna Savings Room

It’s a rewarding challenge to create any business from scratch. Unfortunately, eight out of ten start-up businesses fail. There is another alternative: transforming an existing business to a co-operatively-owned enterprise. As baby-boomer small business owners and entrepreneurs prepare to move into retirement, employee buyouts and community co-ops may be the fast-track to launching a successful social enterprise.

Learn how to assess opportunities and the steps to a successful conversion.

Register for Buy Out the Boss