What role do schools play in the wider community? How are they connected? How are schools experiencing the impacts of demographic change, new technology and other global and local trends? How can we work together to build resilience in schools and in communities?
Stories of Social Innovation
The 'Notes of a Newcomer' project is both an investigation into social innovation at the local level and an exploration of Waterloo Region specifically.
Inspiring Social Change
The Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation highlights world-class thinkers with new ideas on how to achieve significant, durable social change for our most pressing problems.
Exploring Community-University Partnerships
Complex social issues require global perspectives to inform local action. Community-University partnerships can be an effective way to stimulate innovative solutions for the pressing concerns within our communities.
Sharing Ideas for Action
The SiG@Waterloo 2010 "Innovators in Action" Speaker Series, applies the ideas of social innovation to a number of specific sectors and issues.
Piloting Community Animators
Who is creating spaces for the community to think and act together? What are they learning? How are we addressing our most pressing challenges? Who is involved in the process?
Imagining 2020
Beginning in Elora in April 2009, a group from across the community worked together regularly to develop four possible future scenarios for the region.
Where Our Sidewalk Begins
Shel Silverstein’s brilliant and well known poem, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, speaks to knowing that there is hope in a future that looks different than today. In his poem, Silverstein describes how children know where the sidewalk ends, but beyond the sidewalk, children enter into a world of wonder, imagination, creativity, knowledge, space, possibilities and wisdom.