Find the ABSI Connect 2016 Full Report HERE

The ABSI Connect Kit

The inaugural cohort of Fellows - Kate, Aleeya and Lesley - co-created multiple tools and resources in response to what they learned and heard about social innovation in Alberta. 

The ABSI Connect Kit is the cumulative package of this work.

We warmly invite you to borrow, adapt and use this kit to explore, understand and deepen your connection with Albertan social innovation.

We welcome feedback, input and future ideas!

This Kit reflects both our story - the story of three young social impact leaders working in service of all social innovation action in Alberta - and Alberta's story - the story of communities collectively striving to address social and environmental problems at their root, stopping them from existing in the first place. 

““Take it. It’s yours. Do with it what you will. But don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.”
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— Thomas King

THE KIT

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Summary Report (2016)
Summary Report (2016)

A short and sweet summary of the future of Social Innovation in Alberta! We suggest pathways forward in response to the both powerful and daunting patterns and deep cultural narratives that we saw around how we speak, fund, take risks, grow and plan for transformational impact. 

Full Report (2016)
Full Report (2016)

For 7 months, we placed social innovation in the middle of our desks. Now, it is our pleasure to share - from our desk to yours -what we heard, learned and see as opportunities for us to put our desks together to pursue some radically fruitful social change.

ABSI Connect Fellows Findings: Presentation
ABSI Connect Fellows Findings: Presentation

This is the presentation we gave to share our findings. Feel free to share it or use it with your team, community, or class!

Hosting a networking 'lab'
Hosting a networking 'lab'

The idea for a “networking lab” surfaced when we were asked to share what we were learning in and from the social lab space. Here is our simple step-to-step guide that will help you understand and recreate your own “Networking Lab."
Albertan Social Innovation: Ecosystem Snapshot

We want to share a snapshot of the rich and diverse social innovation ecosystem as we saw and navigated it. Here is a window into that ecosystem; it is yours to explore, learn about, share and, above all, meet new and unusual suspects...

We acknowledge that in Alberta we are on traditional territories of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.