Accelerating Our Impact: Innovation and Social Change

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Accelerating Our ImpactInnovation and Social
Change
Vickie Cammack vcammack_at_plan.ca Al
Etmanski aetmanski_at_plan.ca
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STARTING FROM EXPERIENCE

• Think about your experience in accelerating the
  impact of an innovation
• What are/were the points of tension?

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This presentation

• Our interest in accelerating social impact
• Our partnership with the JW McConnell Family
  Foundation
• Emerging insights
• Implications for funders
• Social Innovation Generation

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• Share examples of social innovations that have
  changed your behavior.

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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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LEARNING FROM THE FIELD 10 BIG IMPACT SOCIAL
INNOVATIONS

• La Leche League
• Grameen Bank micro-credit
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Fair Trade
• Self Determination
• Wikipedia
• Amnesty International
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Florence Nightingale nursing
• Montessori Schools

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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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PLANS EXPERIENCE SHIFTING DIRECTIONS

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

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IMPACT, DURABILTY 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
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80 billion
Registered Disability Savings Plan
Belonging Initiative
NO ONE ALONE FUND
Pooled Investment Fund
80 billion
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SUSTAINABILITY

• Is more than the viability and survival of an
  innovation, enterprise or organization

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SUSTAINABILITY

• 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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EMERGING INSIGHTS
Common patterns, insights and attributes among
individuals, groups, coalitions and movements
addressing deeply rooted social challenges
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THINKING/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

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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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Shared Reflections

• How can funders create a climate for
  continuous social innovation?

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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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RESOURCES

• Getting to Maybe Westley Patton Zimmerman
• The Ten Faces of Innovation Tom Kelley
• Social Silicon Valleys- a Manifesto for Social
  innovation Geoff Mulgan (Young Foundation)
• Good to Great and the Social Sector- Why business
  thinking is not the answer Jim Collins
• Bury the Chains-Prophets and Rebels in the Fight
  to Free an Empire, Adam Hochschild
• Reinventing Accountability for the 21st Century
  by Simon Zadek www.opendemocracy.net/content/artic
  les/PDF/2823.pdf
• Asset building for Social change Pathways to
  large Scale Social Impact Ford Foundation
  www.fordfound.org
• Creating New Financial Services Industry, by Bill
  Drayton, Ashoka (Nov.04)
• Accelerating Impact Philanthropy, Innvation and
  Social Change Katharine Pearson
  www.mccconnellfoundation.ca

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WEB SITES

• www.mcconnellfoundation.ca
• www.planinstitute.ca
• www.changemakers.net
• www.sea-change.org
• www.youngfoundation.org.uk
• www.skollfoundation.org
• www.svn.org
• www.ashoka.org
• www.socialenterprisemagazine.org
• www.socialedge.org
• www.blendedvalue.org
• www.cafonline.org (see Venturesome section)
• www.ssireview.com Stanford Social Innovation
  Review