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Could your organization host a social innovation fellow? MacEwan's Social Innovation Fellowship Program connects Edmonton businesses and non-profit organizations with graduate students to work on applied research projects related to social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and social change initiatives. Partner Expressions of Interest are due by Friday, July 19. Learn more here.
Join the Alex Community Health Centre's screening of inspiring digital stories of resilience in Calgary (July 3).
If you have a social purpose business idea you'd like to expand on, you can register to join the Edmonton Community Development Company (EDCD) Social Enterprise Bootcamp this fall.
Looking for ways to improve your virtual meetings? Register for this free webinar from the Tamarack institute on July 9.
Hoping to bring more strategic learning into your department or organization? This organizational learning self-assessment tool can help you get started.

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Alberta Nonprofit Network (ABNN) gathering event recap: Find out what happened on June 10, when 155 people from across Alberta's nonprofit sector came together in Fort McMurray, Lethbridge, and Calgary to discuss and take action on strategic issues impacting the sector.
This recent article in the Philanthropist explores how the philanthropic landscape is changing in rural Canada--including an interesting example from Alberta's Medicine Hat region.
These articles from the Evaluation Capacity Network describe why evaluation capacity is a critical tool for social innovation, and provide several relevant reports and resources.
Check out the SDX learning blog to see what members of Edmonton's Systemic Design Exchange community of practice (SDX) are learning.

Explore the world of social innovation with this new video from Volunteer Alberta(featuring ABSI Connect Advisor Annand Ollivierre!). While you're there, you can also explore the templates and resources in Volunteer Alberta's new social innovation toolkit (note that some content is for VA members only).