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Ashoka Conversations: Can Self-Interest Serve People and Planet? - Tonya Surman
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Ashoka Conversations: Can Self-Interest Serve People and Planet? Ashoka Fellows Al Etmanski and Tonya Surman sit down for a conversation about how to move the field of social innovation forward. Is it time to think more like a movement?
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Entrepreneur & Innovator - Tonya Surman
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Entrepreneur & Innovator. Tonya loves intractable problems and constraints. Every challenge is an opportunity to break rules, push limits and design innovative solutions. Her specialty: identifying gaps and common challenges, creating models that advance systemic change and using self interest to power collaboration. Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Socialight brings together the global community and engages youth to put their love into action for positive global impact. 2014. Centre for Social Innovation.
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Social entrepreneurship: One part rage, one part opportunity - Tonya Surman
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Social entrepreneurship: One part rage, one part opportunity. July 28, 2013. April 18, 2015. The time of cubicles and hierarchy is over. Everyday we are bombarded with images of the world, and despite our great instinct to compartmentalize those images into the category of things that you can’t change, eventually one of these issues is going to enrage you. This is the turning point you are now confronted with the choice. Do you want to be part of the solution? Have you stopped asking permission? We see s...
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Why it's Up to Us (And Why Crappy Days Matter) - Tonya Surman
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Why it’s Up to Us (And Why Crappy Days Matter). Tonya Surman is many things founder of Centre for Social Innovation, an award-winning social entrepreneur, a mother, and a Canadian icon. She’s also a regular person who has her fair share of crappy days. Hear her explain why the bad days are just as important as the good in this talk from University of Toronto’s Changemaker Showcase.
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Will a 19th century budget really position Canada for the 21st century? - Tonya Surman
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Will a 19th century budget really position Canada for the 21st century? April 2, 2012. April 18, 2015. Reading the 2012 federal budget, I am struck at how it positions Canada as the world’s water and resource supplier. Is this all Canada really has to offer? Is this politically visionary? Is this the Canada that we want? Or is it a narrow-minded, short-term view that enslaves Canada to responding to the whims and needs of the real global leaders? I have three major issues with this budget:. Once again th...
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Changing the world and just trying $#!% since 2004 - Tonya Surman
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Changing the world and just trying $#! Centre for Social Innovation. Along with the awesome folks who create CSI. Okay so this is actually a video with Tonya in it, not a talk that she gave. But it’s included here because it provides a wonderful example of Tonya’s vision, leadership, and working style. This video tells the story of the Centre for Social Innovation.
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Community Bonds for Ontario? - Tonya Surman
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Community Bonds for Ontario? December 13, 2010. April 18, 2015. Taking an innovation to scale is tough, but some ideas have real resonance. Community Bonds have the magic to go to scale but we need some help:. Learn about Community Bonds. Buy one and rip off the idea for your own project. Talk to people about Community Bonds, especially if they work for banks or the Ontario government. Explore how they might be used. Ontario Securities Commission exemption as a benevolent society. Community bonds are cur...
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Shared values: The next Big Idea - Tonya Surman
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Shared values: The next Big Idea. January 24, 2011. April 18, 2015. Perhaps an old concept for many of us, this article in the. 8220;Shared Values” by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer may be a defining moment in the transformation of thinking about capitalism. Two thoughts occurred to me while reading the article. First, I was reminded of David Korten. 8216;s work on building Living Economies. When he visited CSI years ago, hosted by Green Enterprise Toronto, he spoke to us about a world where ‘...
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Shifting Gears: A Transformative Approach to Government Deficits - Tonya Surman
https://tonyasurman.commons.ca/2010/12/21/shifting-gears-a-transformative-approach-to-government-deficits
Shifting Gears: A Transformative Approach to Government Deficits. December 21, 2010. April 18, 2015. Could it be that a transformative approach to government deficits might offer us greater sustainability? Do you mean that the old ways of doing things aren’t going to work for us anymore? And the School of Public Policy and Governance released. Shifting Gears: Paths to Fiscal Sustainability in Canada. In reading through the Executive Summary, I was delighted to read the following:. Third, governments can ...
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