Hey social innovation community! You can find CSI on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, & TikTok, but we’ll no longer be active here. Our account will remain as a little time capsule of all that we discussed together over the years. See you out there on the interwebs!
ALT Centre for Social Innovation logo in top left. Text reads, Come say hi! You can find CSI on:
LinkedIn and Facebook: Centre for Social Innovation. Instagram, Threads, and TikTok:[at]csitoronto. Website: socialinnovatino[dot]org.
Hey social innovation community! You can find CSI on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, & TikTok, but we’ll no longer be active here. Our account will remain as a little time capsule of all that we discussed together over the years. See you out there on the interwebs!
ALT Centre for Social Innovation logo in top left. Text reads, Come say hi! You can find CSI on:
LinkedIn and Facebook: Centre for Social Innovation. Instagram, Threads, and TikTok:[at]csitoronto. Website: socialinnovatino[dot]org.
New phone (booth), who this? Thanks to our new partnership with #InboxBooths, we’re excited to share that CSI Spadina now features 3 new meeting pods! These new spaces will allow for greater flexibility with your video chats & small team meetings. Come by and check them out!
ALT A ONE plus phone booth pod, featuring a desk, rolling chair, and light and ventilation system, covered by a tempered glass door. This phone booth is located by the staircase at the back of CSI Spadina's ground floor.
ALT The finalized QUAD meeting room pod, which features two cushioned benches, a table in between, and a light and ventilation system on the ceiling, encased by a tempered glass door. The QUAD is located on CSI Spadina's ground floor.
ALT The inside of a TUESDAY model phone booth from Inbox Booths, featuring a cushioned bench and a table and small lamp attached to the wall.
Make sure your money matches your values 💰Learn more about sustainable investing and climate finance with CSI Member Good Investing, @genuscapmgmt, and CSI at Six Degrees: Climate Finance Investing on November 16.
Save your spot: socialinnovation.org/event_a…
ALT Tim Nash of Good Investing addresses a seated crowd during an event at CSI Spadina’s ground floor. Text overlay, “Six Degrees: Climate Finance Edition.” Centre for Social Innovation, Good Investing, and Genus Capital Management logos in bottom right.
💡#CSIMember Goparity Canada has opened ‘Renewable energy communities,’ which supports Indigenous-owned #cleanenergy projects in Western Canada. They're working w/ Barkley, a Nanaimo-based renewable energy developer on their 2nd campaign through Goparity's platform.
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Barkley has specialized in renewable energy & community infrastructure development for First Nations communities since 2003 and supported the implementation of 100 projects, advancing the deployment of hydro, solar, wind, biomass, tidal, & geothermal energy infrastructure.
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Through these initiatives, they've supported Indigenous communities to make significant environmental strides, reducing over 957 tons of CO2 emissions.
Learn more about the investment opportunity on Goparity Canada's website: goparity.ca/project/renewabl…
In conversation @NRUpublishing, our CEO Tonya Surman shares insights into the future of 720 Bathurst, also known as CSI Annex, and discusses some of the challenges and opportunities of social purpose real estate: socialinnovation.org/wp-cont…
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Posted with permission of the publisher of NRU Publishing Inc. Original article first appeared in Novae Res Urbis Toronto, Vol. 27, No. 43, Friday, November 3, 2023.
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CSI Member @digital_55 is a woman-led, integrated digital studio that produces unscripted media and bespoke digital learning experiences for socially relevant and provocative content. They're looking to launch Filter, a digital series that explores the new cannabis culture. 1/2
ALT A slightly blurry film photo, designed to look like it was shot in the 1990s, of six members of the Digital 55 team, standing on the street beside a brick building.
Support their Kickstarter for Season 2 as they focus on curious and exploratory conversations on a changing subculture, featuring new voices and filmed in a '90s storytelling style: kickstarter.com/projects/lau…
You're invited! Join #CSIMember Dr. Emily Sadowski for the #booklaunch of "What is Intuition? Resonance, Connection and Trusting Intuition on its own Terms," about her journey into ideas of consciousness, connection, self-awareness, & the nature of truth: eventbrite.ca/e/743299838827…
ALT The cover of Dr. Emily Sadowski's book, "What is Intuition? Resonance, Connection and Trusting Intuition on its own Terms." Text beside reads, "Book launch in Toronto. Help celebrate the innovative new book by Dr. Emily Sadowski. November 7, 2023, 7 to 9 PM EST. D.G. Ivey Library, 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto." In bottom right, photo of Dr. Emily Sadowski.
ALT Nine people with Canadian Connections, including founder Marcella Tomas, Executive Director, pose behind a moving truck with an open rear door. Centre for Social Innovation logo in top right. Text overlay, "new Blog. Chatting with Changemakers: Canadian Connections on Becoming a Charity."
Hey there! If you want to learn more about the role of finance in building a low carbon future, join us, Good Investing (@TimNashCFP), and Genus Capital Management (@GenusCapMgt) at Six Degrees: Climate Finance Edition on November 16. 🌱
Register here: socialinnovation.org/event_a…
Business Improvement Areas and not-for-profits share stories of resilience during challenging times and how leaning into @cityoftoronto programs and resources helped local businesses.
Small Business Forum
Oct 30 @mtcc_eventstoronto.ca/sbf
Funded by @ONeconomy#sbfTO
ALT Florist speaking with customer in retail store. Text reads: Get Support for Small Business. Register now. Oct 30. City of Toronto logo at bottom left. Province of Ontario logo at bottom right.
Black ash is a critically #EndangeredSpecies globally and of great cultural significance to many #IndigenousPeoples.
Now the Government of Ontario is proposing to severely limit its protection. Learn more and take action! ⤵️
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Be part of the Small Business Forum, the @cityoftoronto’s free, in-person event supporting small businesses.
Oct 30
8:30 am - 4 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
➡️ Register at toronto.ca/sbf
Funded by @ONeconomy.
#sbfTO
ALT Foresight 50. Canada's 50 Most Inestable Cleantech Ventures. November 8, 2023. Register now. To the right of text, three smiling people with arms crossed over their business casual outfits. Foresight Canada logo in bottom right.
CSI is #hiring! We're looking for a Manager of Membership and Business Development.
The deadline for applications is rolling, so apply now: socialinnovation.org/job_aut…
ALT CSI is hiring! We're looking for a Manager of Membership and Business Development.
Get quick tips on how to start your business at our next Lunch and Learn! On October 16, host Andrew Ko from @Futurpreneur will help you take your vision from an idea to a business by tackling the first step: writing a successful business plan.
Register: socialinnovation.org/event_a…
ALT Three people pick up markers from the bottom of a flip chart stand, preparing to write on the flip chart paper. CSI and Futurpreneur logo in top right. Lunch and Learn: Futurpreneur's Tips for a Successful Business Plan.