Reimagining Post Pandemic Possibilities – An Open Webinar Invite
Reimagining Post Pandemic Possibilities: A Collaborative Exploration June 29, 2021 – 11:30am -12:30pm PST The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted deep patterns of living and highlighted critical vulnerabilities within Canadian communities. The pandemic’s...Building Social Innovation Into Housing Challenges
YWCA Metro Vancouver Launches a Housing Solutions Lab to Tackle Barriers to Building More Deeply Affordable Housing for Single Parents In early 2020, YWCA Metro Vancouver reached out to Urban Matters with a persistent and difficult challenge: how to sustainably fund...A Pandemic is a Terrible Opportunity to Waste: Local Government and Their Community-serving Sector Partnerships
In Urban Matters’ second Covid webinar, BC and Alberta leaders in the field share experiences, insights and ways forward in the wake of the pandemic. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, local governments and their partners in the community-serving sector were faced with...Embracing ambiguity: Brent Wellsch joins the Urban Matters team
Urban Matters recently welcomed Brent Wellsch to our team as our Solutions Lab Lead. A systemic designer and strategist, Brent comes to UM from the Government of Alberta, where he helped to establish the Alberta CoLab, one of Canada’s first public-sector innovation...Building Bridges: Delyse Sylvester joins the Urban Matters team
Urban Matters recently welcomed Delyse Sylvester to its team as a leader in Strategy and Culture. Delyse has three decades of social-innovation expertise, and has connected thousands of social entrepreneurs with corporate leaders, thought leaders and new-media...Urban Matters Announces 2019 Community Contribution
As a CCC, Urban Matters is required to re-invest a percentage of our profit back into community innovation ventures. That means we don’t only work on solutions, we live and reinvest in the communities where we work. In 2019, we had $40,000 available for a community...International Overdose Awareness Day 2019: a time to remember and a time to act
Tomorrow, August 31, is International Overdose Awareness Day. It is a day for remembering everyone we’ve lost. It’s also a day for action and connection. The opioid overdose crisis is huge, systemic, and overwhelming. Simultaneously, it is deeply personal.
P.E.O.P.L.E. celebrates its first graduating class
The inaugural P.E.O.P.L.E. graduation ceremony will celebrate the first cohort of graduates from its program this evening.
Impactful & Inspiring: Indigenous Social Innovation 2019
Indigenous social innovation has been making headlines and we wanted to learn more. Here’s the start of a growing list.
Jill Andres – change maker, social innovator, entrepreneur – joins the Urban Matters team
As the newest member of our team, Jill brings a wealth of experience, including experience in social innovation and systems change and deep connections to the social impact and social enterprise ecosystems
UAD Brings Wheelchairs into the Wilderness
As the team at Universal Access Design Inc. (UAD) has expanded, so has their breadth of work. UAD has been bringing wheelchairs into the wilderness! We’re featuring UAD’s important work for National AccessAbility Week 2019.