If I had to pick just one thing that makes social innovation work, it would be collaboration. And if I had to pick just one thing that Canada does particularly well?Well, it’s collaboration—our small population in a huge country, we have had to work together because, let’s be honest, we’re really nice. The world loves ... Why Being Nice is Canada’s Social Innovation Superpower
By Andrea Nemtin
October 6, 2025
Kristin Wolff, a long-time friend of SIX, reflects on her experiences at SIX gatherings.
By Kristin Wolff
October 6, 2025
Geoff Mulgan, founder of SIX, reflects on SIX’s 15-year history, highlighting both the setbacks and promise of social innovation in a turbulent world.
By Geoff Mulgan
October 2, 2025
Author Charlie Leadbeater summed up the London SIX Wayfinder 2017 with six things that social innovation can offer to the future.
By Charlie Leadbeater
October 2, 2025
I’ve been working the development field for thirty years and one of the first lessons I learned when still a trainee at the W.K.Kellogg Foundation, was the need for innovation to solve longstanding ‘social problems’. Be they in education, health, rural development, philanthropy & volunteerism – the main programme areas in the 1990s in Latin ... A reflection on social innovation from Brazil
By Carla Duprat
October 1, 2025
Martin Stewart-Weeks (Founder and Principal, Public Purpose) reflects on social innovation and why it matters.
By Martin Stewart-Weeks
October 1, 2025
I still remember the excitement in the air, as we sat around the large official dinner tables in the impressive conference hall in Beijing back in the late fall of 2006. Present were some of the people I respected most highly when it came to social change, democracy innovation and the respect for not only ... We dared to imagine
By Uffe Elbaek
October 1, 2025
TACSI’s reflections on 15 years of nurturing ideas, relationships and practices—locally and globally—through the SIX community. SIX was founded just a year before TACSI, back in 2008—a time when big tech was still a symbol of progress, the White House had an Office of Social Innovation, and most meetings happened face-to-face. At TACSI, we were ... Spreading social innovation through practice
By Chris Vanstone
September 30, 2025
On 3-4 July, 2025, partners from Austria, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, UK gathered in Vienna for launch of the Social Innovation Mission Facility.