Accelerating Our Impact

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Accelerating Our Impact
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What is Social Innovation

• New ideas that work
• Innovation at the service of social and economic
  justice
• Impact, scale and durability
• A profound alteration of relationships,
  attitudes, habits, policies, resources,
  practices, systems, structures to transform
  deeply rooted social problems.

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PLAN a Case Study4 CORE VALUES

• Relationships are the key to good life
• Family direction
• Financial Independence from government funding
• Contribution equals citizenship

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What Makes PLAN Unique

• A different question What is a good life?
• A different model Social enterprise
• A different paradigm Contribution and citizenship

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Impact, Durability and Scale

• How can the processes and values of PLAN become
  part of the water supply?
• How can alterations of practice, policy and
  funding contribute to structural change?

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PLANS Sustainability Objectives

• Embed full citizen perspective in structures and
  institutions
• Change cultural consciousness from needs and
  inability to contribution and participation

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PLANS Methodology For Sustainability
Sharing
Inspiring
Doing
Changing
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Registered Disability Savings Plan

• Impact 800,000 individuals and families
• 200,000 lifetime contribution limit
• Matching Disability Savings Grant
• Disability Savings Bond for low income
• Disability Benefits implications
• Raise asset limit
• Eliminate claw back
• Opens space for new set of innovations

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Registered Disability Savings Plan
Belonging Initiative
NO ONE ALONE FUND
Pooled Trust Fund
80 billion
80 billion
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Sustainability

• Is more than the viability and survival of an
  innovation, enterprise or organization
• Means being intentional about
• Structural, institutional, systemic and
  legislative change
• Cultural and attitudinal shifts

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Assumptions

• Change (massive) is possible
• Complexity lens is useful (paradox, abundance,
  emergence, mystery)
• Context matters (time, place, resonance)
• Continuous innovation should be the norm (there
  is no permanent solution)

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Panarchy
(www.resalliance.org) eco-cycle as metaphor for
social change
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Panarchy
Invention
Transformation
Implementation
Letting Go
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Six Patterns
Common patterns, insights and attributes among
individuals, groups, coalitions and movements
addressing deeply rooted social challenges
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Thinking and Acting Like a Movement

• Multiple actions, time frames, scales and levels
  of engagement
• Commitment to multi-sectoral collaboration
• Self-organizing
• Slow food movement
• Micro-Credit

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Framing

• Creative framing and sharing of ideas, processes,
  people and resources
• Codifying - systematizing
• Making it easy to do the right thing
• Blue Box
• Designated Driver
• Disability Savings Plan
• Great Bear Rainforest
• Open University

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Convening

• Networks to collaborate, engage, nurture and
  inspire
• Key features hospitality action oriented
  problem solving personal accountability
• Toronto City Summit
• Alliance
• Ashoka Changemakers
• Solutions Mosaic

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Utilizing Market Forces

• Understand economic and social assets of
  constituency
• Influence the operational practice of business
• Access new sources of capital
• Program Related
• Investments
• Disability market
• Pink Tourism
• Social Venture Partners

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Removing Structural Barriers

• Navigate power, politics and policy
• Understand and mobilize moral authority
• Access vertical social capital
• The Natural Step
• Approval of anti-
• viral drugs
• Non-smokers rights

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Who is as Important as the How

• Successful social innovators are
• Persistent
• Collaborative
• Communicators
• Comfortable with paradox/ambiguity
• Creative/
• Entrepreneurial
• Blend social/
• economic justice
• Spiritual

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• Social innovation is not just about finding ways
  to take innovations to scale. Its also about
  innovation in the way we work on large-scale
  challenges.

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PLAN Resources

• www.planinstitute.ca
• www.plan.ca
• www.philia.ca
• www.nurturingbelonging.ca
• www.tiesthatbind.ca
• www.socialaudit.ca