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Design by Doing 2.0: Culturally Adapting a Social Innovation Process
Design by Doing 2.0 is a social innovation lab we are proud to have been a part of over the last eighteen months. Together, with the City of Edmonton, EndPoverty Edmonton and Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative, we worked alongside the Bhutanese community in…
Values in Action: MyCompass Planning Labs and Supporting the Good Life
MyCompass Planning Labs For many years Skills Society has worked hard to be a fertile ground for fresh ideas, and radical innovations to emerge because of our strong values, focus on continuous learning, and the culture of creativity we have built together. A decade…
Executive Director AGM Report
February 2019 marked the beginning of a new chapter for Skills Society and for myself as the incoming Executive Director. I’m new to the role, but not new to leadership in the sector nor this great organization. Coming into the role of Executive Director I’m excited…
Key Milestones Timeline in Disability Rights and Service
For our 2019 AGM to learn from and remember our history, we created a timeline of key learning milestones from Skills Society and the Disability community in Alberta over the last 50 years.
2019 Annual General Meeting
Onward: Getting the Right Mix of The Old, The New, and a Dash of Surprise! We had a full house at our 2019 Annual General Meeting that took place on June 25th at the Chateau Louise Hotel and Conference Centre. Vice Chair of the Board, Amy Abbott led the business…
Podcast Featuring Skills Society Executive Director
Click here to check out this thirty minute podcast featuring Skills Society Executive Director, Ben Weinlick, and key Shift Lab stewards, Ashley Dryburgh and Jodi Stonehouse, chatting about what social innovation is, design, systems, and incorporating indigenous…
Winter 2019 Newsblast
Curious about what we have been up to for the past three months? You have come to the right place! Our quarterly newsblasts are designed to be a ‘one stop shop’ enabling you to quickly get the scoop on goings on, new projects, and exciting opportunities…
MyCompass and Ben Weinlick featured in McConnell Foundations 12 lessons on social innovation
12 lessons learned on social innovation featuring Skills senior leader Ben Weinlick
Shaking Up Our Thinking at Skills Illustrated
New staff came together for the November edition of Skills Illustrated, an all day course that introduces Skills Society’s mission, vision, and values. This foundational course is designed to ‘shake up’ people’s thinking when it comes to what a…
How to talk about race- Shift Lab Speakers Series
Hi folks, One of our initiatives coming out of our Action Lab work – The Edmonton Shift Lab is hosting an international speakers series. The series is called “How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race” and features three prominent international speakers…
Patterns & Principles We’ve Learned That Support People In Their Endeavor For The Good Life
Co-authored by the Skills Society senior leadership team – Bev Hills, Shawn Depner, Linda Marchand, Sandi Pesklevis, Karen Huta, Pat Conrad, Ben Weinlick for the 2018 AGM report. This year the senior leadership team decided to put a couple of our core values…
CommuniTEA Coordinators Present at Edmonton's Next Gen
On October 24th, 2017 Co-coordinators of the CommuniTEA Infusion Project, Larry James and Paige Reeves presented at Edmonton Next Gen’s Pecha Kucha 29 Event. In this dynamic and engaging speaking format, Paige and Larry creatively crafted their words to a series of…
Academic Paper Published About Project Citizenship
We’re happy to share a recently published academic paper by our research partners from the University of Alberta on Project Citizenship. Many thanks to our collaborators and University researchers – Nancy Spencer-Cavaliere, PhD. , Bethan Kingsley, and…
2016 Highlights at a Glance
Welcome to the Skills Society newsletter The newsletter aims to summarize the highlights from a few of our key projects and collaborations! In each newsletter we interview someone connected with Skills about what one of our core values means in action.
Flashback with Rhea - Social Innovation Intern Extraordinaire
A glimpse of what our summer Social Innovation intern Rhea Kachroo has accomplished during her time at Skills Society. Rhea and I walked to the restaurant together catching up and preparing ourselves for the interview ahead. Rhea was hired as a summer intern with the…
What the heck is Social Innovation?
We were very lucky to have summer intern Rhea Kachroo researching patterns of Social Innovation and ways to help grow understanding of it within Skills Society and outside through initiatives like the Edmonton Shift Lab. Rhea pulled together this infographic from…
Why Skills Society is an Employer of Choice
Karen Huta, Senior Manager of Human Resources Happy to share the infographic below from our 2016 annual report. We work hard at building an inclusive, creative culture at Skills…
Action Lab Case Studies: A few things happening in the lab
One of our five core values is Building and Sharing Knowledge. This value means we work hard to learn through our own actions, and through studying the work of others. Through building and sharing knowledge we commit to trying new ideas and becoming better problem…
Anthropology of Disability: A University of Alberta and Skills Society Exploration
A blog post recapping the experiences of six CSL students from the U of A, while engaging in discussions with employees of Skills Society.