Edmonton Social Planning Council

Category: **Digital Resources

  • Intentional Innovation: How Getting More Systemic about Innovation Could Improve Philanthropy and Increase Social Impact

    Title: Intentional Innovation: How Getting More Systemic about Innovation Could Improve Philanthropy and Increase Social Impact
    Author(s): Kasper, Gabriel, and Clohesy, Stephanie
    Subject: Non-profit organizations – general
    Publisher: W. K. Kellogg Foundation
    Place of Publication: Battle Creek, MI
    Date of Publication: 2008
    Abstract: To help spark and sustain a conversation about innovation in the social sector, we partnered with two firms with deep expertise in these issues—the Monitor Institute and Clohesy Consulting. This report represents the findings of our work together, pulling into one place the best of current innovation theory and practice, and exploring how innovation could become a more consistent and reliable commodity for social good. We want to stress the ideas, methods, tools and “value statements” in this report were not created or developed by this foundation. We ourselves are early stage learners and users of these tools and concepts—not “the experts.” Indeed we hope you interpret this report as a learning dialogue versus a lecture. The report itself could perhaps be viewed as a “rapid prototype,” far from complete yet sufficient to create ongoing dialogue, and so we invite your engagement to improve and refine the content moving forward.
    Language: English
    Material Type: Report

    B. NON PROFITS/B.06 PUBLICATIONS/2008 intentional_innovation.pdf

  • the fACTivist Summer 2008: Youth Edition

    ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.A NEWSLETTERS/2008 Summer (July) The Factivist – Youth Edition.pdf

  • Enhancing Streets to Homes Service to Address the Needs of People Who Are Street Involved, Including Those Who Panhandle

    Title: Enhancing Streets to Homes Service to Address the Needs of People Who Are Street Involved, Including Those Who Panhandle
    Corporate Author: City of Toronto
    Subject: Housing – temporary, emergency, homelessness
    Publisher: City of Toronto
    Place of Publication: Toronto
    Date of Publication: 2008
    Abstract: This report recommends enhancing the successful Streets to Homes service in order to address the needs of people who are street involved, including those who panhandle. “Street involved” includes people who are homeless and living outdoors, people who stay in shelters at night but spend large amounts of their day on the street, and people who are housed and panhandling legally. The proposed enhanced street outreach service will also allow for the ability to meet the special needs of youth. In so doing, this report responds to the direction provided by Executive Committee in 2007 to pilot a social service response for people who are housed and panhandling in a legal manner and report on the experience; report on a consultation with Business Improvement Areas, Residents’ and Ratepayers’ Associations and operators of major attractions; report on specific methods used in other Canadian cities to curb panhandling and report on aggressive panhandling.
    Language: English
    Material Type: Report

    D. HOUSING/2008 enhancing_streets_to_homes.pdf

  • 2008 April fACT Sheet Alberta Budget 2008 Analysis

    ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.B FACT SHEETS/2008 April Fact Sheet – 2008 Alberta Budget Analysis.pdf

  • Splash & Ripple: Using Outcomes to Design & Manage Community Activities

    Title: Splash & Ripple: Using Outcomes to Design & Manage Community Activities
    Author(s):Coyne, Kathy, & Cox, Philip
    Corporate Author: Plan:Net Limited and Strathcona Research Group
    Subject: Non-profit organizations – program planning | Multiculturalism
    Publisher: Canadian Heritage
    Date of Publication: 2008
    Language: English
    Edition: 4th edition
    Material Type: Report

    Abstract: This guide was prepared for the Canadian Heritage (PCH) Multiculturalism Program to help groups use outcomes when designing and managing programs. It draws from a wide range of sources, making it relevant to other community programs funded by Canadian Heritage and to the non-profit sector as a whole. Outcome measurement is easier to understand and use when you have a mental image of how it works. We use an image of a rock dropped in water (Splash and Ripple) to show what we do and the difference it makes in our projects. Read this handbook once through to help you build that image. You will see that outcome measurement is a process of piecing ideas together as in a puzzle – one activity here, an immediate or intermediate outcome there, until the puzzle pieces fit together logically. This process is explained by laying out key terms in a results chain. Once you have read the handbook, return to page 4 for suggestions on getting started using outcome measurement in your organization. An example of a completed framework and indicators can be found in the Appendix. By using the handbook in this way, you will begin to internalize how outcome measurement works; it will become easier each time you use it. More importantly, it helps you visualize meaningful and achievable changes in your community. Outcome measurement is different from previous planning approaches because it challenges us to reach beyond traditional goals and objectives to describe how our community will be different.

    B. NON PROFITS/B.03 PROGRAM PLANNING/2008 splash_ripple.pdf

  • the fACTivist Spring 2008: Child Poverty Edition

    ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.A NEWSLETTERS/2008 Spring (April) The Factivist – Child Poverty Edition.pdf