Innovation that works for everyone.
Social innovation has the power to address complex challenges and redesign broken systems.
Community knowledge, trust, capacity for experimentation, and distributed leadership are some of civil society’s superpowers. As Canada's innovation policy evolves to meet the polycrisis, this policy brief looks at what it would mean for Canada to fully activate the role of civil society in solving our hardest problems.
Evidence & Insights
A pathway to solving complex problems
We use “social innovation” to describe approaches that bring diverse people together to understand root causes, experiment with new responses, and shift the systems behind issues like housing, climate, health, and equity. It is participative, collaborative, experimental, iterative, and can be transformational.
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We work with governments, nonprofits, charities, community partners and private sector organizations to break down silos and open opportunities for change.