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Engaging Youth in Social Innovation

Two upcoming Vancouver events are inviting young people to get engaged in social innovation.

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Dreaming Vancouver’s Transportation Future

Vancouver has a genesis story of how it’s been able to achieve one of the lowest carbon footprints of any major North American city.

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Kaan Williams: The making of a Fair Trade UBC

On January 14, the University of British Columbia (UBC) celebrated its first anniversary as Canada’s first and only Fair Trade designated campus. In recognition of the milestone, I interviewed Kaan Williams, the Fair Trade liason from the UBC chapter of Engineers Without Borders, to learn more about the process of the designation, the benefits, and the challenges facing other campuses.

 

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This Year’s Social Enterprise Dragons Biggest Yet
Corporate partners want to give back to their community, says ENP program co-ordinator

When Vancity Community Foundation and JDQ Systems founded an event to support social entrepreneurs four years ago they named it “When the Dragon’s Away,” to imagine what would happen if dragons, venture capitalists, left for-profit business and entered the realm of social enterprise.

For B.C.’s Social Enterprise Sector, it’s Time to Celebrate and Collaborate
Mission Possible's Revenue Jumps After Social Enterprise Dragons
Focus on Cost Not Benefit, Health Care Social Enterprise Learns

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Social Media Innovation Day to Advance #Inclusion
13 different organizations who support people who have a disability attending day’s events

What’s a hashtag? Well, if you’re attending an upcoming social media workshop to advance the inclusion of people who have a disability, it’s not only a valid question but a tagline that will allow you to follow the events remotely via Twitter.

Axiom News Journalist Invited to Judge Social Business Competition
News Articles Offer Motivation to ‘Pay it Forward’
Advance Strategic and Communication Goals with Curation

Editorial

What Assets for Thriving Communities?

The outlook for many communities is increasingly bleak. In recent decades, commercial downturns have been buffered by the ability of our governments to provide stimuli, or even to simply keep our civil services healthy and employing people. This is no longer the case.

Local Investment Can Build Local Economy
Cool News Coming From Vancouver

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Calling Young Social Innovators

Are you under 30 and interested in social innovation? The British Columbia Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship and partners Young Women in Business and Global Agents for Change are hosting a Lightning Pitch event March 6 at HiVE Vancouver. The evening will feature 90-second presentations on some of the most exciting initiatives from B.C.'s under 30, as well as networking time to connect with a community of emerging and established social change leaders. To learn more click here.

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Haida Gwaii Society to Present at Social Enterprise Dragons

The Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society will be one of the three finalists presenting in this year's Social Enterprise Dragons Den March 8. Situated in a remote area with limited economic development opportunities, Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society is in the midst of offering their third semester in Natural Resource Studies on the living campus of Haida Gwaii.

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