Design Thinking Workshop for the Social Economy

Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) and Social Enterprises (SE) need a comprehensive and practical-to-apply measure of their impact, to attract funding for their social and environmental value creation efforts. But NPO and SE scholars and practitioners agree that no current measures have the validity, reliability, and sufficiency needed. And most are difficult to apply to a range of NPO and SE types.

In this interactive workshop-type roundtable, participants will be presented with three approaches to impact measurement: two from non-profit and social economy organizations working with a wide range of NPO and SE organizations, and one from a social innovation research cluster that has studied a wide range of NPO and SE organizations. Participants will then engage in a facilitated design thinking workshop to develop their own impact measure, which they can take away and use themselves or further develop as they wish.

This workshop features Richenda Grazette (SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation); Andrew Greer (Purppl); Peace Jilani & Digvijay Kulshreshtha & Bruce Martin (Thompson Rivers University) and facilitated by Cheryl Gladu (Thompson Rivers University).