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2nd IMPACT Report 1 You Focus on Impact. We Focus / Edited by Vinod Rajasekaran & Heather Ward / Designed by on You. Francesco Franciosi francescofranciosi.com / Thank you to our Print Partner Impact Hub Ottawa 71 Bank St., 6th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5N2 (613) 680-3506 hubottawa.org @HUBOttawa POWERED BY A 3,200 SQ. FT. WORKING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, IMPACT HUB OTTAWA IMPACT HUB OTTAWA BRINGS TOGETHER RESOURCES, RELATIONSHIPS, INSPIRATION AND COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES THAT HELP CLOSE IS THE NATIONAL CAPITAL TO 400 MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATIONS GROW THEIR IMPACT EVERY DAY. WE ARE BUILT ON THE EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS OF 70+ IMPACT HUBS REGION’S ECOSYSTEM WORLDWIDE. THIS GLOBAL MEMBER COMMUNITY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF IMPACT IN 2015, AND IS NOW THE FASTEST GROWING NETWORK OF FOR PEOPLE AND SOCIAL INNOVATORS IN THE WORLD - SHARING IDEAS, BEST PRACTICES, AND SUPPORT TO HELP MAXIMIZE EACH OTHER’S POTENTIAL. ORGANIZATIONS WORKING WE BELIEVE INNOVATION AND LASTING IMPACT RELIES ON EFFECTIVE AND CONTINUOUS CROSS-SECTOR, CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL AND GLOBAL TO BETTER THE WORLD. EXCHANGE, LEARNING, AND COLLABORATION. WHO WE ARE OUR IMPACT 17 Letter from the Mayor of Ottawa 6 Joint Letter from our Lead Strategist & Chair of the Board 7 Why we Exist 9 STORIES OF THE HUB EFFECT Networks and Community 20 Personal and Professional Growth 22 HUB COMMUNITY Project and Venture Building 24 Contents Cross-sector Exchange 26 10 Years of Global Impact 10 Global Connectivity and Resources 28 Community Profile 12 THANK YOU 14 RIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION Members, Supporters & Partners 30 6 7 LETTER FROM JOINT LETTER FROM Jim Watson Our Lead Strategist MAYOR OF OTTAWA & Chair of the Board November 26, 2015 EXCITINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE. A Hubber once said, “I feel that there is a distinct hasn’t all been snowflakes and rainbows. Dear Impact Hub Ottawa, pre-HUB city and post-HUB city.” We feel it Helping people and organizations ‘do good as well. There is now a growing community of better’ is much harder than we originally Congratulations to the core team of artists, makers, social entrepreneurs, changemakers, a home for collaboration, and an thought. There have been a number of and Board of Directors on helping social not-for-profit professionals, public servants environment to work together to tackle some of experiments where actual outcomes didn’t match innovation and social entrepreneurship and others that call HUB their home. the biggest problems facing the city. Hubbers intended results. We decided to capture the key are exchanging with other sectors, growing their experiments, and share them publicly in the grow and thrive in our city. I’ve watched them collaborate, learn, work, global connections and learning new tools. They spirit of innovation. This is the second half – our incubate, and create positive impact for our are creating impact in innovative ways, and we Failure Report. We hope that you are inspired In three short years, The HUB has grown city. Seeing the vibrancy and diversity of the feel privileged to have played a small role in their by our impact, but also by the audacity of our into a vibrant community and environment activities and people there makes me proud success. Every day, we witness how being a part experiments. for social innovation, social entrepreneur- of our city and excited about its future. of such a community greatly enhances people’s ship and city building. The work of 300+ networks, relationships, knowledge, market We are excited about embarking on our next Hubbers has contributed to making I believe The HUB is important to opportunities, and accelerates their world- phase of impact where we will primarily focus our city more connected, courageous, Ottawa’s future, and is a vital complement changing work. We offer a huge debt of gratitude in three areas: being a leading professional inclusive and innovative. to the new Innovation Centre planned to the core team, Board, members, champions, community of changemakers in the region; for the city. That’s why I’m excited by and partners for your support, efforts and cheer. being the leading social enterprise and professional development platform for the I am pleased to see your educational pro- the prospect of a growing and strengthening This is a special year for the global Impact social impact sector in the city, and being a space gramming, including Impact Academy, HUB, and the increasing impact it is Hub network – it marks our 10 years. There are where citizens, social entrepreneurs, non-profit is helping social impact leaders and social having on our city. more than 70 Impact Hubs across the globe, professionals, government employees, hackers, entrepreneurs get connected to valuable including cities like San Francisco, Melbourne, academics, journalists, and artists can share resources, know-how, and skills in Ottawa I look forward to working with The HUB Johannesburg, London, Sao Paulo and Singapore. knowledge, build open tools, and solve civic and from around the world. over the next couple of years and helping Not to mention seven new Impact Hubs opening problems, together. to support its efforts in growing social inno- in different parts of Africa – a first for the I always enjoy my visits to The HUB. vation in our city leading up to and during- network. Impact Hub is now the world’s largest There is a lot to do as we make Ottawa the best I’ve had the pleasure to meet a number Canada’s 150th celebration year. and fastest-growing movement for social place in the country to drive social innovation entrepreneurship and social innovation. Since and start social enterprises. We invite you to join the first Impact Hub opened in London in 2005, us in this excitingly uncomfortable journey. the global network has catalyzed and helped grow close to 2500 social ventures around the world. Last year alone, the global Impact Hub T r a c e y C l a r k Jim Watson network catalyzed and helped grow 400+ social Mayor Chair of the Board enterprises; helped create over 1500 new full- of Directors City of Ottawa time jobs, and helped member social enterprises CEO, Bridgehead generate $150 million in new revenue. Since Impact Hub opened three years ago in Vinod Rajasekaran Ottawa, we’ve been fortunate enough to support Lead Strategist over 350 changemakers as well as empower a number of firsts in Ottawa – some of which you will read about in this Impact Report. But it 9 WHY WE EXIST A collaborative way of working, learning, IF WE ARE creating, and problem-solving matters to make Ottawa a more inclusive, innovative, TO BE DO GOOD BETTER. connected and courageous city. This means INNOVATIVE a new type of community, experiences and ABOUT ANYTHING environment that helps people, projects, new ventures and established organizations do IN THE FUTURE, good better every day, and one that helps IT MUST BE citizens work together to creatively tackle some of the biggest problems facing the city. ABOUT HOW IMPACT HUB WE WORK This is where Impact Hub comes in. IS THE HOME FOR TOGETHER.” We host Ottawa’s changemakers from all sectors, grow their knowledge, networks and _ Al Etmanski SOCIAL INNOVATION Senior Fellow & Co-Founder, Social capabilities, incubate social ventures and Innovation Generation (SiG) and civic initiatives, facilitate continuous cross- Founding Director, PLAN Institute IN CANADA’S CAPITAL. sector and global exchange, and become the glue and launch pad for social innovation. training program; and Masterclass, We help community betterment initiatives an ongoing professional development WE WANT TO BE PART OF gain critical altitude. We build bridges series for non-profit professionals. across major sectors in Ottawa. BUILDING A STRONGER We drive a broader movement for better Large corporates and not-for-profits, social outcomes, where global collaborations small mission-driven organizations, and innovations result in positive and startup social ventures, post-secondary FUTURE FOR THE PEOPLE lasting impact locally. Our diverse and students, and federal public servants have vibrant member community consists of all benefited over the last three years from OF OTTAWA, CONNECTING corporate and non-profit professionals, access to talent, creative ideas artists, public servants, academia, and social and new approaches, knowledge, insights, entrepreneurs. We support individuals and relationships in diverse sectors. THEM TO A LOCALLY-ROOTED, and organizations that see innovation and collaboration as core to their commitment We know innovation, collaboration and WORLD-CLASS NETWORK to create value for society. work that has a positive impact is key to taking the nation’s capital into the future. TO GENERATE In three short years, Impact Hub in Ottawa Impact Hub Ottawa is thrilled to contribute is seen as a leading professional community, to the collective acceleration of better learning academy, social venture incubator, outcomes for our society, while supporting LASTING IMPACT. and city-building platform – a “community economic development in our city. asset for the future” as our members say. We We invite organizations from all sectors host cutting-edge learning programs that to get involved in this exciting journey. connect members not only to knowledge, but to peer-to-peer support and resources. These include: Launch Some Good, Ottawa’s WE DRIVE SOCIAL INNOVATION social enterprise startup weekend; Impact THROUGH COLLABORATION. Academy, Ottawa’s social entrepreneur 10 11 FIRST AFRICA IMPACT HUB SEED PROGRAM 10 YEARS TO OPEN: Impact Hub Islington Impact Hub’s Africa Seed in London, UK 2005 Program is an incubation OF GLOBAL IMPACT program aimed at fostering purpose driven entrepreneurship through the opening of new Impact Hubs across Africa. On August 22nd, 2015 Impact Hub Accra became The global NEWEST the third Impact Hub to open in IMPACT HUBS Africa, after Impact Hub Kigali TO OPEN: (Rwanda) and Impact Hub Impact Hub Geneva Johannesburg (South Africa).