Social Finance Census 2010

Yesterday, the The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), an incubated project at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) and the Social Venture Exchange (SVX), an initiative of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS, jointly released the first ever Social Finance Census 2010 which dug into the social finance needs and readiness of nonprofits, social enterprises and business to undertake social ventures. Executive Report More Social Finance Census 2010

Applying Metrics to Social Innovation: Clayton Christensen’s commentary on the Obama’s Office of Social Innovation

Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School, writes a fascinating article in the Huffington Post: The White House Office on Social Innovation: A New Paradigm for Solving Social Problems. In the article he argues that the key to supporting social innovation is with a keen focus on metrics. He argues that we need to be ‘bottom-up’ and focus on ‘disruptive innovations.’ He questions governments role in supporting social innovation and questions why social innovation should be the domain of the nonprofit sector. More Applying Metrics to Social Innovation: Clayton Christensen’s commentary on the Obama’s Office of Social Innovation

What is a social mission and who gets to decide?

Today I learned that Wikimedia has been denied charitable status in the UK. Andrew Turvey explains here. I have also recently learned that the CRA Charities Dept has annulled the charitable status of Phoenix Community Foundation. They ‘annulled’ it claiming that the objects granted to Phoenix should never have been granted after being in operation for 30 years. I have also learned that several charities that are undertaking more entrepreneurial ventures have had their charitable status ‘under review’ here in Canada More What is a social mission and who gets to decide?