Douglas Brodhead from Innoweave will share his knowledge about innovative tools and approaches that your charity can use to generate greater impact at a lower cost. Topics to be discussed: Learn about Innoweave New social innovations that are helping organizations generate greater impact The Innoweave process and how your organization can benefit Opportunities to apply for implementation funding

1. How Innoweave Can Help Your
Organization Generate Greater Impact
September 23rd, 2015
Hosted by CanadaHelps

2. J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
• 75 year-old national family foundation
• Member of Social Innovation Generation (SiG)
• Focus on enabling innovative environment for
community organizations to thrive
• Launched Innoweave two and a half years ago to
help nonprofits implement social innovation
approaches

3. 3
Challenges for our sector (everywhere)…
• Financial pressures
o Years of slow growth economy
o Government deficits
o Slow growing charitable donor base
• Outcomes
o Performance based
o Evidence based
o Creativity
o Leverage private funding
o Partnerships and innovation
o Accountability

4. … and emerging opportunities
• New ways to generate or use
money to generate outcomes
o Social Enterprise and Social
Procurement
o Social Finance
• Networks and Multi-sectoral
approaches
o Constructive Engagement
o Collective Impact
o Network approaches to scale
impact
o New technologies and new
business models
o New ways of using data and
measurement tools

5. Helping organizations across Canada

6. Striving for Enhanced Impact
Can you clearly answer the following question? Is this vision
clearly understood and shared across your organization?
“What impact does our organization want to have in our
community over the next 3-5 years?”
Can you explain with measurable indicators:
“The outcomes that we work towards are ..., we have a clear
idea of how to achieve those outcomes, which is…, and we
would like to refine our plan to increase even more our
impact”

7. Your answers will guide how Innoweave can
help you
“What impact does our organization wish to have in our
community?”
• Positive and measurable change directly attributable to an organization
• Specific focus on defined impact area.
• Ambitious (e.g. large-scale) yet focussed.
Example: organization working towards reducing homelessness:
• Intended impact: reduce homelessness by 10% over 3 years in a specific
community
• Organization’s activity aiming at generating an impact: offer 10% more
transition to housing

8. “The outcomes that we work towards are ...
…we can clearly articulate how we expect to achieve those
outcomes...
…but we need to begin to learn how well our new programming
is meeting new expectations…”
• Effect or real, measurable change that takes place through the
intervention of the organization.
• Outcomes should be considered markers of success that are critical
• Organizations should then be able to start developing key information
points to help understand whether expectations of new
programming/activities are aligned to what’s really happening
Your answers will guide how Innoweave can
help you

11. 1. Learn about each tool: web/webinars
Basic web info for NFPs on each tool Recorded webinars (Scaling Impact 101)

12. 2. Select: Should we explore…?
Ability to invest time/energy PLUS
For Scaling Impact
• Clear impact goals
• Successful approach ready to scale
• Organizational readiness
For Developmental Evaluation
• Clear initiative
• Questions on how to develop it
• Ability/resources to adapt as you go
For Collective Impact
• Clear impact goal
• Hypothesis of how
• Required partners
Self Assessment Tools
• 5 questions
• Feedback

13. 3. Workshops: teams develop a plan
• Leadership teams of 3-4 including
board members
• Well prepared
• Discussion of your issues
• Leading to next steps
• Prepares teams for coaches and grants
• Impact & Strategic Clarity: draft TOC
• Social Enterprise: feasibility / business
plan
• Developmental Evaluation: evaluation
scope of work
• Collective Impact draft
TOC/engagement plan

14. 4/5. Coaching to test and refine the plan
• Network of >170 Coaches registered on innoweave.ca
o Content expertise, knowledge of sector, and coaching skills
o Selected by organizations
o Refine scope of work / develop contract together
• Small grants for organizations to hire coaches
o Regular January/July deadlines
o Clear idea
o Clear questions that you
need to answer

15. Benefit of Innoweave Modules (1 of 2)
Impact and
Strategic Clarity
Collective Impact Scaling Impact
Full
potential
(workshop/c
oaching /
beyond)
First steps
(attend a
web working
session /
workshop)
• Outcomes orientation and plan for (expanded) impact
• Internal (and external) alignment
• Tested with evidence
• Framework for continuous learning
• Framework for future decision making
• Position to innovate
• Communicate impact and how you achieve it
• Begin to align activities around outcomes
• Use early session findings as a lens in key decisions and in the
design of new initiatives
• Use insights to focus presentations, reports and funding
proposals on direct impact and position within high level
organizational theory of change

16. Benefit of Innoweave Modules (2 of 2)
Collective
Impact/
Scaling
Social
Enterprise
Social
Finance/Out
comes
Finance
Cloud
Computing /
Constructive
Engagement
DE
Full
potential
(workshop/c
oaching /
beyond)
First steps
(attend a
web working
session /
workshop)
Implement a new approach that directly enhances your
impact (e.g. by engaging differently and/or using different
financial models)
• Be inspired by new approaches on webinars
• Develop ‘first drafts’ in workshops that can be tested and
used to communicate plans
Formally
evaluate,
adapt, and
improve as
you go
Clarify your
innovative
initiative
and how
you will
innovate as
you go

17. Impact
and
Strategic
Clarity
Social
Finance
Social
Enterprise
Devel’tal
Evaluation
Cloud
Computing
Collective
Impact
Outcomes
Finance
Scaling
Impact
Constructive
Engagement
Developers
and
Adapters
Bridgespan
Group
Evoy and
Garrow
Community
Forward
Fund /
MaRS
Enterpising
nonprofits
CCO
SiG@Wt’loo
/ Mark
Cabaj
Com’unagir
Framework
/Grantbook
Pilote
Numerique
Tamarack /
FSG
Dynamo
MaRS CII SiG@
Waterloo
Sean Moore
Sample of
Partners
PwC
Vancouver
CF
UW Ottawa
YMCA
Can’da
Pillar
Maytree
UW York
Edmonton
CF
Trico Fnd
UW Calgary
UW BH
CSC NFLD
OCSA
Trillium
CCO
CISED
Trico
UW Ottawa
Sust. Net
Trillium
UW Calgary
Sust. Net.
Com’nagir
UW Wpg
UW Ottawa
COCo
Sustain. Net.
Counsel.
Fnd.
UW
Winnipeg
CAROW
Trico Fnd
UW Calgary
PwC
UW Calgary
Wpg
UW
Hamilton
Victoria
Sust. Net
Laidlaw Fdn
Ministry of
Children
and Youth
Services
(Ont.)
Finance for
Good
MaRS CII
UW
Toronto
CCVO
ONN
UW
Toronto
~150 coaches listed on Innoweave.ca
NACY / Imagine
United Way Canada
CISCO
Government of Canada
OTF / ONN
Each module has a different set of partners

18. Social Innovation Micro-tools:
Quick exercises -> insights -> innovation

19. Upcoming Webinars/Workshops
Webinars (National/web-based)
• Introduction to Social Enterprise,
September 23
• Introduction to Impact & Strategic
Clarity, September 30
• Introduction to Impact & Strategic
Clarity (French), October 1
• Introduction to Developmental
Evaluation (French), October 2
• Innoweave Coaches Engagement
Webinar – Oct 6
• Social Enterprise Opportunity
Identification, October 14
Workshops
• Collective Impact – Toronto, ON, October 7
• Developmental Evaluation – Montreal, QC,
October 19
• Scaling Impact – Calgary, AB, October 21
• Social Enterprise – Cambridge, ON,
October 21
• Social Enterprise – National/web-based,
November 17 + 19
• Cloud Computing – National/web-based,
November 25
• Developmental Evaluation - National/web-
based, Nov 2015
• Scaling Impact- National/web-based, Date
TBD
For a full list of events, please visit
www.innoweave.ca/en/workshops

20. Thank You
Innoweave.ca
info@innoweave.ca