SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ACQUISITION
BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH
PLACE-BASED MUNICIPAL INVESTMENTS
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE CATALYST
VANCOUVER ISLAND SOCIAL INNOVATION ZONE (VISIZ)
SCALE INSTITUTERobyn Welsh2023-01-13T01:47:55+00:00
SCALE INSTITUTE
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR THE SOCIAL CHANGE SECTOR
Providing research, development, and educational programming in the areas of social innovation, social enterprise, social procurement, and social finance.
Scale Institute supports the sector through a variety of different means: resources and toolkits, case studies, webinars and workshops, and programs.
Scale Institute is funded through a combination of grants, government funding, contracts, and sponsorships. We work on a project-to-project basis, identifying areas of innovation and developing new approaches grounded in research and tested for impact.
Non-profits are increasingly operating social enterprises. If you are a non-profit thinking about starting a social enterprise, why not buy one of the many businesses that are for sale?
Community wealth building redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places ownership, control and benefits into the hands of local people and organizations.
PLACE-BASED INVESTMENTS
Local governments invest billions of dollars annually with few options for investments in positive local impact. If they can invest in other countries' communities, why not in their own?
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE CATALYST (seCATALYST)
seCatalyst was a series of events to learn about, showcase and inspire social enterprise. seCatalyst hosted learning events, conferences, pitch galas, incubation bootcamps, and networking events.
Vancouver Island Social Innovation Zone (VISIZ) was a research, mapping, planning and innovation initiative to strengthen the local social enterprise ecosystem.
Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber, Chair Chief Impact Strategist | Ideas for Impact
Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber is the Chief Impact Strategist at Ideas for Impact, a full-service social impact agency specializing in social impact incubation and acceleration systems, impact-focused growth, innovative business models, and comprehensive actionable strategies to address social and environmental challenges through the business lens. Joanna believes we can create enterprises that are not only profitable but create social and environmental value in our communities through their activities and brands.
In her previous role as Executive Director at League of Innovators, she was responsible for mobilizing the next generation of leaders from discovery to acceleration.
As a public speaker, facilitator, and lecturer, Joanna focuses on the intersection of entrepreneurship, impact, youth, and future of work. She was the founding Managing Director of the Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing, co-creator of the award-winning Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub, and previously steered the ship at The Next Big Thing, Canada's only full inclusive youth entrepreneurial program.
Find her lecturing about entrepreneurship and innovation at Simon Fraser Beedie School of Business and at Emily Carr University; mentoring youth led start-ups such as SmartSweets, Blume, WizeMonkey, GrantMe; and driving conversation around social impact and innovation as the chair of the Scale Institute. Joanna's work focuses on building changemaking ideas from concept to reality, to big impact.
Jolynn Green, Vice-ChairExecutive Director | Community Futures Central Island
Since 2010, Jolynn Green has been Executive Director at Community Futures Central Island, where she understands the need for diversified income streams and self-reliance for non-profits. Jolynn's hands-on experience assisting hundreds of small businesses from startup to expansion and her rich and diverse work experience combined with lifelong learning has created a business acumen steeped in human resources, project management, organizational development, and nonprofit sector management. She is an entrepreneur at heart and has been self-employed.
Her career began in the community economic development arena as a Chamber of Commerce Manager/EDO actively pursuing economic development opportunities. Motivated by the grassroots development approach and the business development aspect of Western Diversification Canada's Community Futures Program mandate, Jolynn joined a Community Futures team in 1994 where she worked for ten years.
Seeking new opportunities, Jolynn became a Human Resource Manager of a five-star golf and casino resort. Jolynn's work experience gave her the desire to continue to expand her knowledge base and as a result graduated with a Master of Leadership and Training, Organizational Leadership and Change Management from Royal Roads University of Victoria, BC.
Kariann Aarup, Board MemberDirector, Partnership and Program Development | Aqua Forum
Kariann has been working with AquaAction since 2017, focusing on scaling its flagship program, the AquaHacking Challenge, as well as developing new programming to further leverage young Canadian entrepreneurial and tech talent for freshwater outcomes. This has enabled Kariann to bring her deep connection to the natural world as well as her professional experience in multiple sectors to bare on freshwater.
Fueled by her childhood memories growing up on a beautiful lake in the Laurentians north of Montreal, inspired by the entrepreneurial family in which she was raised, guided by the community-focused values of her Scandinavian heritage, and equipped with the language of business from her McGill MBA, Kariann is proud to be part of a dynamic team at AquaAction, driving practical solutions for freshwater issues, in an innovative and engaging way.
Kariann lives in Victoria, with her husband and two children and is happy for the silver-lining of COVID of less travel and more hygge home-time.
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We respectfully acknowledge that the offices of Scale Collaborative are located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
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