L3’s first operational quarter has blazed by, and we’re thrilled to say there’s been a tonne of movement both within the team and among our various partners and stakeholder groups.
Major movements in December
The L3 team spends an intensive planning day to prepare for their upcoming workshops.
The month of December was taken up with getting ready for our first Workshop in Toronto, scheduled for January 29-30, 2020. We are also very excited to be soon announcing our first Platinum Sponsor, after whom the first Workshop will be named! Stay tuned for that upcoming announcement.
- Lab Coordinator Tara Campbell and Principal Investigator Sean Geobey have been hard at work designing the activities of the Toronto Workshop. Tara also began organizing a smaller scale event to be held two weeks prior in Kitchener-Waterloo at our very own University of Waterloo campus. Participants at the KW event will have the opportunity to begin forging their own local network for social purpose conversions.
- Research Assistants Sean Campbell and Alex Szaflarska have been running stakeholder interviews that will help inform the Lab’s priorities over the next 15 months.
- Project Manager Meg Ronson has her head down sourcing sponsors, partners, and locations for the upcoming workshops. Halifax is looking like our next stop in mid-April: more on that soon!
Sean Geobey visualizes the overlapping processes involved in social purpose conversions.
Events and networking
GreenHouse Director Tania Del Matto provides opening remarks at the Social Impact Showcase on December 5, 2019.
On December 5th, L3 attended a Social Impact Showcase at St. Paul's GreenHouse, a social impact incubator and community for innovators who want to create social and environmental change, located on the University of Waterloo campus. It was an inspiring evening in which the GreenHouse community pitched their social enterprise initiatives for a chance to win small grants to further fund their activities. L3 is proud to be working alongside organizations like GreenHouse to support a new generation of social innovators.
Happy 2020!
And of course, the whole team enjoyed some well-earned vacation time over the Christmas break, and are refreshed and ready to bring social purpose conversions to Canada in 2020.
Happy new year from the whole team. Let’s make real change happen in 2020.
About Legacy Leadership Lab (L3)
L3 is an 18-month initiative by the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, funded by the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness program. We are leading five Workshops from coast to coast to help build expert-driven solutions for Canada’s transitioning small business community. During these Workshops, the we will develop market interventions and prototypes that allow conventional and social finance players, business service providers, and community leaders to facilitate social purpose conversions of existing businesses in their own towns.
About Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
WISIR is a research institute at the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Enterprise and Development committed to generating trans- and inter-disciplinary knowledge about social innovations and the social innovation process (the dynamics of learning, adaptation and resilience). Our approach is to pursue collaborative research and projects that bridge University of Waterloo departments, involve researchers from around the world, and engage those beyond academia. We seek to mobilize this knowledge through a range of new curriculum offerings and training opportunities - both within and outside of a university setting.