Name	Affiliation	Location	Mission
Michael Lenczner	Ajah / PoweredByData	Montréal	Powered by Data was started by Ajah, a Montreal-based software company that builds tools for Canadian non-profits. They wanted to use their expertise in technology and open data to help the social sector as a whole. The initiative has since grown into a project of Tides Canada. They focus on systemic and policy solutions that benefit the sector as a whole, rather than specific technologies or applications. That’s why they work with key stakeholders, particularly in philanthropy and government, to open up data and increase the sector’s capacity to use information effectively. Their approach combines consulting, technical collaboration, research and advocacy to achieve those goals.
Rohit Ramchandani	Antara Global Health Advisors School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo	Toronto	Antara is a Canadian consultancy that provides technical expertise & evidence-based public health & management advice to organizations around the world, including fortune 500 companies, NGOs and governments.
Anil Patel	Ashoka	Toronto	Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an “everyone a changemaker world.”
Nisa Malli	Brookfield Institute	Toronto	The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E) is an independent and nonpartisan policy institute, proudly housed within Ryerson University. We are dedicated to building a prosperous Canada where everyone has the opportunity to thrive due to an inclusive and resilient economy. BII+E generates far-sighted insights and stimulates new thinking to advance actionable innovation policy in Canada.
Tonya Surman	Centre for Social Innovation	Toronto	Members of the Centre for Social Innovation work across sectors to create a better world. They accelerate their success and amplify their impact through the power of coworking, community and collaboration. Together, they ar building a movement to put people and planet first.
Lee Rose	CKX	Ottawa	CKX is a social change agency. They embolden shift disturbers with opportunities for reflective practices, place-based learning and deep knowledge exchange to spark fundamental shifts in our society.
Gabe Sawhney	Code for Canada	Toronto	Code for Canada is a national nonprofit that connects government innovators with the tech and design community. Our programs enable governments to deliver better digital public services and empower communities to solve civic challenges using technology and design.
Alain Meunier	Communagir	Montréal	Communagir places its expertise at the service of communities, as well as individuals, groups and organizations concerned with their development. They favor a collaborative approach where each intervention is built with the actors involved. They offer an objective perspective to illuminate complex situations and explore new solutions.
Helen Yung	Culture of Cities Centre	Toronto	The Culture of Cities Centre fosters international community among those working to uncover and cultivate culture in the city. The Centre engages an international public through book series, journals, research projects, salons, film series and conferences.The publications, workshops and special events are dedicated to uncovering new ways of representing, shaping and defining urban culture.
Supriya Syal	Dulcimer Labs	Toronto	Dulcimer Labs is a purpose driven company that uses behavioural science and evidence-based decision-making and to create social impact for public, private, and civil sector clients.
Ashley Dryburgh	Edmonton Community Foundation	Edmonton	Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF) strengthens the community by connecting donors to charities and causes that are important to them.
Mark Abbott	EngineeringChangeLab	Toronto	The Engineering Change Lab is a collaborative platform for individuals and organizations from across the engineering community to share perspectives, deepen understanding, and take action to address systemic challenges holding back the profession’s full potential.
Nadia Duguay	Exeko	Montréal	Since 2006, Exeko has been using creativity (art and philosophy) for the social inclusion of people who experience(d) or are at risk of exclusion. Exeki acknowledges above all everyone’s potential to think, analyze, act, create and be a stakeholder of society: they presume equality of intelligences. They use both practical approaches of intellectual and cultural mediation, and systemic approaches inspired from social innovation, as motors of social transformation, to act positively on society, individually and collectively: intellectual emancipation, prevention of exclusion (homelessness, crime, suicide, drug addiction), citizen and cultural participation, inter-recognition, identity reinforcement, etc.
Ashley Good	Fail Forward	Toronto	Fail Forward – the world’s first failure consultancy – supports people and organizations to allow, acknowledge, and adapt to failure in pursuit of innovation.
Donna Dupont	Solferino Academy	International	The Solferino Academy is a think tank and ‘do’ tank – that undertakes horizon scanning, trends analysis and futures exploration to help the Movement understand the future of vulnerability and risk and to develop strategies to enable change. They are working with both the Secretariat and National Societies in 190 countries to build an organizational structure and operating model that is relevant, agile and adaptive to these changes and is fit to meet the humanitarian needs of the future.
Vinod Rajasekaran	Future of Good	Ottawa	Illuminating stories, innovations, and trends shaping social impact in Canada. A guide to changing the world of good for impact-focused people excited by a better tomorrow.
Cait Goddard	GOOD Travel	International	GOOD Travel promotes and facilitate travel that gives back to the local community, economy, and environment. They aim to educate, inform and share knowledge with travellers and businesses to encourage sustainable and responsible tourism.
Trevor Deley	IBM	Ottawa	IBM Advanced Studies(CAS) is a system of engagement for academic collaboration with IBM. They network IBMers with a community of students, researchers, educators, change makers and entrepreneurs to attract ideas, talent, partners and clients to IBM. Together, they explore technical and social challenges around emerging architectures that will define business and computing for the next quarter century.
Yancy Craig	Indspire	Ottawa	Inspire is a national Indigenous-led registered charity that invests in the education of Indigenous people for the long term benefit of these individuals, their families and communities, and Canada. Their vision is to enrich Canada through Indigenous education and by inspiring achievement. In partnership with Indigenous, private and public sector stakeholders, Indspire educates, connects and invests in Indigenous people so they will achieve their highest potential.
Ajmal Sataar	Inspire Nunavut	Ottawa	Inspire Nunavut is an experiential social entrepreneurship training program designed specifically for youth living in Nunavut. Merging the driving principles of traditional business with the mechanics of social entrepreneurship, while also integrating Inuit culture and values, Inspire Nunavut provides youth in Nunavut with an opportunity to create new solutions in their communities via entrepreneurship.
Natalie Napier Sarah Schulman	InWithForward	Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto	A social design organization that makes human services more human. System outcomes InWithForward wants to see: Raises staid expectations and lowest common denominators; Increases people’s’ capabilities, power, agency and control; Embraces loss, and resilience; and removes shame and stigma; Meaningfully activates informal resources and relationships; Mirrors continual growth versus stuckness & risk aversion
Jessica Tomlin	Match Women’s International Fund	Ottawa	The MATCH Fund supports small women’s organizations that have big ideas. MATCH is the cash for their creative breakthroughs, the microphone for their messages, and their partner on the path to equality. MATCH’s partners dismantle barriers, challenge perceptions, change systems, and transform the world for women and girls.
Jason Pearman	Social R&D Fellowship	Ottawa	The Fellowship is an ongoing effort to seed a vibrant ecosystem of public good R&D across community, public, corporate and academic sectors.
Ian Capstick	Center for Social Impact Strategy, University of Pennsylvania	Montréal	Center for Social Impact Strategy supports changemakers with big ideas through online & in-person learning.
Lewis Muirhead	NouLab	Moncton	NouLab helps the public and innovators act together to address our most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. By connecting change agents from across sectors, convening them around pressing issues, and facilitating their journey to deep change, NouLAB is making the change process smarter.  Their mission is to provide pathways in which we, together, explore ideas and test solutions to complex challenges.
Jean-Noé Landry	Open North	Montréal	Founded in 2011, OpenNorth is Canada’s leading not-for-profit organization specialized in open data, open government, community engagement, open smart cities and civic technology. They work with Canada’s largest, most innovative, and connected cities. Our network extends across Canada and globally through communities of practice and open government partners. As a steward of the International Open Data Charter, Open North operationalizes the Charter’s principles into government strategies and roadmaps. This work promotes the effective use of data as infrastructure facilitating sustained engagement between government, civil society, and the public.
Anne White	Government Performance Lab, Harvard	Ottawa	Harvard Kennedy School’s mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world, so people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. By combining cutting-edge research, the teaching of outstanding students, and direct interaction with practitioners, they have an impact on solving public problems that no other institution can match.
David Phipps	Research Impact Canada	Toronto	Research Impact Canada builds institutional capacity to help Canada’s researchers and students span boundaries, collaborate, and connect their work to new services, products, processes, systems, public policies, and innovations with social, economic, cultural, environmental, commercial, and scientific value.
Amy Mapara	Red Cross	Ottawa	The Canadian Red Cross mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada and around the world.
Ben Weinlick	Skills Society	Edmonton	Skills Society is one of the largest Disability Service organizations in Edmonton with long history of social innovation stewardship in multiple sectors.  Skills Society is also known for creating one of the early Non-profit Social Innovation Labs in Canada called the Action Lab.  Through their initiatives, Skills Society aims to test new ideas and challenge old assumptions — pioneering better ways to value and include people with disabilities within  community and contribute to the growing body of knowledge around Social Innovation Research and Development within Canada.
Renuka Kher	T Lab	International	T Lab, Tipping Point’s R+D team, tests new pathways out of poverty by prototyping ideas in partnership with non-profit organizations and the Bay Area communities they serve.
Lauren Hunter	Talent Cloud	Ottawa	Talent Cloud is the Government of Canada’s experimental new hiring platform for project-based or “gig” employment, posting cool new jobs each week in digital, tech, and user experience design.
Brendan Yorke	Teach for Canada	Toronto	Teach for Canada works with First Nations education leaders, principals, teachers, and many others to recruit and select teachers who have the motivations, aptitude, and fit to be successful in a northern First Nation. Once selected, Teach for Canada provides three weeks of community-focused summer preparation and provide ongoing support during a teacher’s minimum two-year teaching commitment in the North.
Kathy Manners	The Boldness Project Rural and Remote Access to Justice	Windsor	Working to change the experience of law and justice for people in rural and remote communities by creating an inclusive justice approach in their work and the work that their community does for people who have lived experience with poverty. They work in small communities with large catchment areas, in a province so large that our service areas are almost 2,000 kilometers apart.
Diane Roussin	The Winnipeg Boldness Project	Winnipeg	The Winnipeg Boldness Project is an initiative that is working alongside the North End community to improve outcomes for young children in the Point Douglas area.
Jen Recknagel	UHN OpenLab	Toronto	OpenLab is a design and innovation shop dedicated to finding creative solutions that transform the way health care is delivered and experienced.
Jean-Marie Chapeau	Centraide du Grand Montréal	Montréal	Centraide du Grand Montréal raises money and invest it locally to break the cycle of poverty and social exclusion. They support a network of dynamic agencies and projects that bring people together. In Greater Montreal, one out of seven people receives support from an agency in Centraide’s network.
Nicole Daw Tracey Martin	Vivo for Healthier Generations	Calgary	Vivo is on a mission to raise healthier generations in Calgary and beyond. They want Canadians of all ages to achieve their optimal health wherever they choose to live, work and play. Vivo is extending their reach beyond the walls to the broader community locally, nationally and internationally by charting a course to make bold shifts – shifts in policy, values, attitudes and behaviours about healthy living.
Lynne Woolcott Maureen Fair	West Neighbourhood House	Toronto	West Neighbourhood House enables less advantaged individuals, families and groups in the community to gain greater control over their lives and within their community. West Neighbourhood House will work in partnership with the community to promote personal and social change in order to achieve a safe, health and accepting society for all. To this end, West Neighbourhood House will work with our resources and the strengths of the community.
Marketa Evans	Woodgreen Community Services	Toronto	WoodGreen is a founding United Way of Toronto member agency and is one of the largest social service agencies in Toronto. WoodGreen helps seniors live independently, internationally-trained professionals enter the job market, parents access childcare, children and youth access after-school programs, newcomers settle in to Canadian life, homeless and marginalized people get off the streets and job-seekers find meaningful employment and training. WoodGreen offers more than 75 innovative programs to some of Toronto’s most marginalized communities.

Up until now, the Social R&D Community was comprised of alumni of the Social R&D Practice Gathering.

We’re restructuring to open up to more practitioners and social mission organizations with dedicated R&D practices.

Get in touch if you want to know more.
Email Annelies Tjebbes at [email protected]