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3:00pm to 6:00pm
CSI Annex
720 Bathurst Street

The Centre for Social Innovation presents ImpactFest! This event is a way to discover new products and services that put people and the planet first, in a world that is converging to advance the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Social entrepreneurs and companies will have the opportunity to connect around a product or service offering. It is also a way to meet potential new collaborators, mentors, co-founders, funders, volunteers and friends! 

The event includes workshops, group activities, discussions and networking. Entrance is free but space is limited, so please register now to attend. See you at 3pm on Nov 21st at CSI Annex to explore how to make an impact in the world! 

Register for ImpactFest

This workshop will  help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas, and how to scale up prototypes for broader impact.

How can you build buy-in for a vision for community change, help a stalled effort get un-stuck, and test ideas before making costly and risky investment in new programs and services? The intentional practice of prototyping – testing conceptual ideas by making them real ­­– is a core part of effective community change.  But how can you prototype quickly and effectively? What makes a ‘good’ prototype? What types of models and best practices are out there to help streamline your efforts?

Register for Prototyping for Community Change

In this full-day, interactive and engaging workshop, Galen MacLusky, Tamarack’s Director of Community Innovation will share how communities and organizations are using the practice of prototyping to advance their work, practical examples of forms of prototyping that suit common challenges, and help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas. We will also explore pathways to move from prototypes to large-scale impact and how prototypes can be scaled up for broad impact.

What Will I Learn?

Through a mix of engaging presentations, peer learning, and interactive exercises, you will learn:

• The value of prototyping: We will provide case studies and examples of how communities and organizations have used prototypes to get to impact.
• Types of prototypes that you can use: We will dive deep into specific types of prototyping, what makes the effective, and how you can draw upon them to address your specific needs.
• How prototypes can catalyze community efforts and systems change: We will provide tools and techniques for building upon the results of your prototypes to scale impact and build upon what works.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is designed for people who are seeking how to work with communities to create social change. It is for anyone in the private, public, or voluntary sectors who:

• Leads or manages programs (including their development and ongoing implementation), organizations, or community engagement activities
• Is interested in driving community change or a social good
• Is seeking new approaches to addressing social challenges

Pre-Recorded Webinar - Released on October 30th

Speakers: Megan Courtney and Liz Weaver

In this webinar, Megan and Liz will reflect on 25 years of collective wisdom in community change from Canada to New Zealand. Based on their experiences, you'll hear about some of the most important shifts in the community change landscape and what that means for your own initiatives. Most importantly, Megan and Liz will provide insight into challenges, themes, and principles that they believe will affect the next decade of community change work.

Register for Global Perspectives on Community Change Webinar

This webinar is a great opportunity to hear from important voices in the community change landscape, and to benefit from different perspectives on the past, present, and future of community change work. This webinar builds on the paper Reflections on Community Change: Two Countries, Two Perspectives, One Vision for Moving Forward. 

Speakers

Megan Courtney

Megan Courtney is a founding member of the Inspiring Communities core team, and (amongst many things!) leads co-ordination of IC Team activities. She’s a firm believer in the power of local people and places to do amazing things and loves working alongside communities to help make locally-led action happen. 

Liz Weaver

Liz Weaver is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute where she is leading the Tamarack Learning Centre.Liz is well-known for her thought leadership on Collective Impact and is the author of several popular and academic papers on the topic.

This workshop will provide participants with simple, practical tools and approaches to put human-centred design theory into practice in their own community change initiatives.

Human-Centred Design and Design Thinking are rapidly rising as tools for innovation across the public, private, and voluntary sector. How can community changemakers use these exciting approaches to strengthen and deepen their work? In this full-day, interactive, and engaging workshop, Galen MacLusky, Tamarack’s Director of Community Innovation will share the theory behind these methods, practical ways to put theory into practice, and help participants get hands-on experience with some of the most helpful tools that these approaches offer.

Register for Human-Centred Design for Community Change

What Will I Learn?

Through a mix of engaging presentations, peer learning, and interactive exercises, you will learn how to:

• Learn from residents: We will provide tools and approaches for engaging community members to identify the barriers they face and create bold visions for the future 
• Develop innovative ideas: We will provide tools to spark creative, community-led approaches to the challenges that communities face.
• Build and test new programs, services, and approaches: We will provide tools to help you test new approaches and work with community to ensure that they deliver the right impact.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is designed for people who are seeking how to work with communities to create social change. It is for anyone in the private, public, or voluntary sectors who:

• Leads or manages programs (including their development and ongoing implementation), organizations, or community engagement activities
• Is interested in driving community change or a social good
• Is seeking new approaches to addressing social challenges

Faculty

Galen MacLusky

Galen is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Community Innovation Idea Area. He is passionate about working with community organizations to help build and scale new ideas that deepen their impact. An experienced design, innovation, and co-creation consultant, at the core of his work are approaches that help organizations engage with those who are impacted by their services and test new programs and services with minimal investment. Over the past five years, Galen has used these approaches to help Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations across North America reinvent the services and programs they provide. Galen is an experienced human-centred design coach and holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Design and Innovation from Northwestern University.