Rethinking the ‘Business’ of Social Change with Shaun Loney

Are you passionate about making your community a better place to live, but tired of the incremental, risk-averse, cap-in-hand, just-in-time 'solutions' we currently apply to investing in social impact?  Whether you work in government, the community sector, business, or social business, you’ll find your thinking challenged, along with a feast of new approaches, ideas and mindsets to apply to your purpose-driven, mission-driven or policy-driven work.

Come join the Institute for Community Prosperity as we welcome author (The Beautiful Bailout, and An Army of Problem Solvers), Ashoka Fellow, and serial social entrepreneur Shaun Loney for a provocative and stimulating evening of rethinking how we tackle social change.  Co-presented with ConnectFirst Credit Union, Encompass Co-op, Alberta SEED, Alberta Social Innovation Connect, Canada West Foundation, and the Mount Royal University Faculty of Continuing Education, this event will bring changemakers together and inspire local change as we learn to:

• Shift the grants economy to…