[I may update this post occasionally with new stuff that seems relevant.]
Doing this work has felt very much like drinking from the proverbial firehose. I’ve cut back dramatically on the sources I check regularly, as I’ve refined my area of interest, developed preferences, and have had a reduced tolerance for (and increasing ability to recognize) noise. Here are some of them:
- The Young Foundation: http://www.youngfoundation.org
- The MaRS blog and Entrepreneur’s Toolkit: http://www.marsdd.com/bloghttp://www.marsdd.com/entrepreneurs-toolkit/
- The Centre for Social Innovation website and blog: http://socialinnovation.ca/
- SEE Change Magazine: http://seechangemagazine.ca/
- @sigeneration / Social Innovation Generation (SiG): http://sigeneration.ca/
- @socialfinance / SocialFinance.ca
- @NextBillion / http://nextbillion.net
- @echoinggreen / http://www.echoinggreen.org
- @SEA_News / http://www.se-alliance.org/news_current.cfm
- @BeUnreasonable / http://unreasonableinstitute.org
- @LindaStone
- @ProjectHDesign
- @beyondprofit / http://beyondprofit.com/
- @changemakers
Documents
- Growing Social Ventures by NESTA and the Young Foundation: http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/Growing_Social_Ventures_v10.pdf
Conferences & events
- Engineers Without Boundaries Conference, Jan 14-15, Toronto.
- Rotman Net Impact Session on ‘Using Social Innovation to Impact Change’, Jan 24, Toronto.
- Conversations in Design, Jan 27, Toronto.
- Strata, Feb 1-3, Santa Clara.
- Social Innovation Salon: The Rise of the Local, Feb 16, Toronto.
- Social Enterprise Conference, Mar 5-6, Boston.
- Workshop: Social Asset Measurements: Newest Tools to Measure Your Impact, Mar 9, Toronto.
- re:Vision, Mar 26, Toronto.
- Building the Big Society: An evening with Phillip Blond, Mar 28, Toronto.
Appendix to Trends in incubating social innovation
I was encouraged to make a note of everything I find along the way, while working on this project — that this collection might make an interesting resource for someone else. So that’s what I’ve tried to do. I’ve only minimally filtered out redundancies, and I might easily have accidentally forgotten to note a few things, but this is certainly reflective of what I’ve been reading:
- http://www.tacsi.org.au/assets/Projects/Redesign-Social-Services-2010/TACSIFbyF03.pdf
- http://www.inwithfor.org/how/
- http://www.austincenterfordesign.com/blog/
- http://www.socialinnovationexchange.org/sixorganisations
- http://www.vilcap.com/
- http://www.vilcap.com/hub-ventures-the-cohort-kicks-off
- http://the-hub.net/index.html
- http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/Hub%20Ventures.html
- http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/experience.html
- http://www.ecotrust.org/
- http://www.bigventurechallenge.com/
- http://peoplepoweredchange.org.uk/
- http://www.unltd.org.uk/index.php
- http://www.mind-lab.dk/
- http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/public_services_lab
- http://www.sel.org.uk/transitions-public-services.aspx
- http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_biglocaltrust
- http://www.3sc.org/
- http://www.participle.net/
- http://www.eastsideconsulting.co.uk/
- http://www.livework.co.uk/our-work/
- http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/Growing_Social_Ventures_v10.pdf
- http://www.alliancemagazine.org/node/980
- http://www.phillipadsmith.com/2011/04/catalyzing-news-innovation-how-would-you-do-it.html
- http://www.phillipadsmith.com/2011/04/open-innovation-challenges-do-they-work.html
- https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/2011/04/16/sustainable_design_contests_and_awards_roundup.html
- http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/Introduction.aspx
- http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/economicopportunity
- http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica/
- http://openideo.com/
- http://challengepost.com/discover
- http://appsforscience.com/info/resources
- http://www.skild.com/Customers/case-studies.php
- http://www.changemakers.com/competitions/browse/all
