What is the Innoweave Impact Accelerator?

Since its launch in 2012, Innoweave has leveraged social innovation tools to help hundreds of organizations advance their mission and generate greater impact. They have used that experience to develop the Innoweave Impact Accelerator, a mini-workshop that helps organizations and collectives to clarify the impact they are working to achieve. A clear impact focus helps organizations and collaboratives more easily identify which social innovation approaches (such as developing a social enterprise) they can leverage to achieve and accelerate their impact.

What does the Innoweave Impact Accelerator involve?

The Impact Accelerator will:

• Provide leadership teams and collectives an opportunity to step away from their day-to-day activities and think critically about the impact they are trying to achieve through their work.
• Guide organizations and collectives through activities that will help them translate their aspirational mission into specific achievable impact goals. The session also introduces Theory of Change, a clear and actionable hypothesis of how an organization or collaborative will achieve its intended impact.
• Provide participants with the opportunity to engage with and learn from other organizations that have successfully implemented social innovation tools to achieve their impact.
• Highlight supports available through the Innoweave process, including opportunities to access coaching funding through Innoweave.

Register for the Innoweave Impact Accelerator

What happens after attending an Innoweave Impact Accelerator session? 

Do you want to build off your work in the Impact Accelerator and further clarify your impact?

• Apply directly for the next wave of the Impact & Strategic Clarity module (apply here) or the Collective Impact module (apply here)
• Register and apply for upcoming introductory webinars and full-day workshops focused on specific Innoweave modules that are designed to accelerate impact. A list of all upcoming webinars and workshops is available here
• Organizations that attend a full-day workshop for a specific module are eligible to apply for Innoweave Implementation Funding

Target Audience: This session is designed for nonprofits, charities and social enterprises (for-profit or nonprofit).

Note: Organizations are encouraged to bring a team of 2-3 people to the workshop (e.g., members of their leadership team, board members and in some cases key stakeholders/advisors)

Investment: No fee to attend, thanks to Innoweave. However please register.

Deadline: Please register your team by Monday, March 11th, 2019.

12pm Eastern Time

You're invited to an online Q&A session with Shaun Loney, author of The Beautiful Bailout: How A Social Innovation Scale-up Will Solve Government's Priciest Problems (2018)

Shaun Loney is an Ashoka Fellow and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He has co-founded and mentored twelve successful social enterprises, including BUILD Inc. (2011 Scotia Bank EcoLiving Green Business of the Year) and Aki Energy (2016 National Canada Startup Canada award winner). Prior to his work with social enterprises, Shaun spent over a decade in senior levels of government. Shaun is a widely sought-after speaker and is the team-lead at Encompass Co-op, which works with First Nations, non-profits and governments to promote social innovation.

Register now for the Ask Me Anything with Shaun Loney

9am to 4pm
Wabano Centre
299 Montreal Road

Are you an investor interested in better aligning your investment practices with the principles of reconciliation? Do you want to connect with Indigenous leaders, businesses, philanthropists and asset managers and design opportunities to invest in the Indigenous economy?

If so, join SHARE and NATOA for this important gathering on Investing in Reconciliation and the Indigenous Economy.

NATOA members, SHARE affiliates, non profits, academic institutions, trustees and governments please use code SHARE2018 when registering.

Register for Investing in Reconciliation and the Indigenous Economy: The Role for Institutional Investors

Panels & Speakers

Investing in Reconciliation: An invitation for a more sustainable and inclusive economy
Indigenous leaders will introduce opportunities to put reconciliation into practice in the way investors allocate and steward their capital.
Confirmed:
Carol Anne Hilton, Founder of the Indigenomics Institute
Jason Campbell, Director of NATOA and CEO of Arete’ Development Group
Tabatha Bull, Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Council on Aboriginal Business

Economic Reconciliation: The role of the federal government

Business and Reconciliation: The role of investors in supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 92
Confirmed:
Kate R. Finn, Staff Attorney, First Peoples Investment Engagement Program, University of Colorado Boulder
Delaney Greig, Manager Shareholder Engagement and Policy, Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE)
Moderator: Christie Stephenson, Executive Director, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, UBC Sauder School of Business

Addressing the Indigenous Infrastructure Gap: The role for institutional investors
Confirmed:
Shannin Metatawabin, CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA)
Clint Davis, North 35 Capital Partners
Cliff Fregin, New Relationship Trust
Moderator: Nicole McDonald, Program Director, Indigenous Initiatives, McConnell Foundation

8:00am to 5:00pm
Chatham-Kent John D. Bradley Convention Centre
565 Richmond Street

Join hundreds of other nonprofit sector leaders and supporters for their 5th Annual Chatham-Kent Nonprofit Conference, "Strengthening Our Roots", featuring world-renowned charity guru, Dan Pallotta. Dan has generously agreed to make himself available for an exclusive speaking engagement and book signing opportunity, featuring his latest book, "Uncharitable".

In a time of change unlike anything we've ever experienced in our sector before - with new governments, new and revised policies and regulations, and increasingly complex challenges in our local communities - it's important that we share our thoughts, collect ideas, discuss solutions, and get inspired.

Register for the 5th annual Chatham-Kent Nonprofit Conference

The Chatham-Kent Nonprofit Conference program features some of the most highly sought-after experts in the field. "Strengthening Our Roots" will feature key insights from nonprofit trailblazers who are driving success within their respective fields in this rapidly changing environment. The exclusive line-up features these notable visionaries:

* BETTY FERREIRA - Social Impact Innovation, Transformation and Foresight Strategist
* DAVID HARTLEY - Consultant/Trainer, Board Governance
* JENNIFER JURGENS - Principal, 1 Bold Step
* PAUL NAZARETH - Vice President Education & Development, Canadian Association of Gift Planners
* DOUG SARTORI - Founder, Windsor Hackforge
* CATHY TAYLOR - Executive Director, Ontario Nonprofit Network
* DANIELE ZANOTTI - President & CEO of United Way Greater Toronto

Are the roots of your organization strong enough to withstand these powerful and unrelenting winds of change? Don't allow your organization to be left behind. Together, we will learn how to strengthen our individual organizations, our networks, and our sector as we adapt to these new demands and ways of working that are being thrust upon us at lightening speeds. Arm yourself with the most up-to-date information, so that together, we can continue to help our communities prosper and thrive.

8:30am to 7:00pm
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park

You are invited to join a cross-sector conversation about how – by aligning our work on protected areas, green investment and native plants – we can accelerate our progress towards creating healthy landscapes and resilient communities in southern Ontario.

Register for Shifting the Paradigm Forum 2019

The 2019 Shifting the Paradigm Forum will explore:

HEALTHY LANDSCAPES & COMMUNITIES: How can we collaborate to protect nature and create healthy, resilient landscapes where people and nature thrive?

GREEN INVESTMENTS: How do we use social finance to grow healthy landscapes?

NATIVE PLANTS: How do we expand the market for locally-grown native plants and support the development of an Ontario native plant seed strategy?

NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE: How do we develop cost-effective natural infrastructure strategies that benefit wildlife, water, climate and communities?

ENGAGING LEADERSHIP: What opportunities do we have to engage governing leadership in setting priorities to support creating healthy landscapes?

This invitation is for all groups and individuals from diverse sectors who care about healthy landscapes, including:

Indigenous | Public | Private | Investment | Native Plant | Conservation | Landowner | Corporate | Municipal | Big Picture Leaders