November 2015

RADIUS is launching the new Social Innovation Activators program, an opportunity for SFU’s emerging changemakers to help understand, shape, and activate a stronger social innovation community that engages all faculties on all SFU campuses. SFU students from all faculties are invited to apply by November 30th. 

Three emerging student leaders will be trained to lead interviews of faculty, staff, and students in order to understand the SFU community’s perception of social innovation. Furthermore, the activators will help create a repository of social innovation support resources at SFU by finding and sorting bursaries, awards, scholarships, grants, courses, etc. available for change-making activities. The program supports the cross-campus work of SFU Innovates. Students from all programs and faculties are encouraged to apply.

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RADIUS seeks an experienced, creative, and nimble person to join our team as Lead Educator. Reporting to the Director of RADIUS, the Lead Educator will have lead accountability for delivering the RADIUS Fellows program and development of core curriculum across our program areas.  This is a full-time, 8 month contract position with strong potential for renewal pending performance, fit and funding. Download this position posting here.

Applications are due by 11:59pm on November 17^th, 2015 (see application details below).  Read More

It’s a bittersweet day in building any organization when a key team member finds an amazing opportunity to spread their wings and take on a new challenge. We’re sad to announce that Jennifer McRae is leaving her role as Manager of Edu Initiatives at RADIUS, but thrilled for her and the next steps in her career. She is taking on a wonderful project with our good friends at CityStudio Vancouver, where we will surely soon find new ways to collaborate in our shared vision for a better world.

No-one on a team like this is replaceable, each bringing a part of our fundamental DNA and a unique set of experiences, skills, knowledge, networks and perspectives. Jenn has been an integral part of our formative years. She leaves RADIUS a better organization, with a clearer vision for our work in accelerating Radical Doers, a deeper focus on the relationships and communities that underpin all we do, and a legacy of amazing projects, programs, and collaborations.

Just a few examples of ideas Jenn has brought into the world include:

• SFU Change Lab, overcoming all odds to create a hugely innovative, cross-disciplinary undergraduate program with co-founder Deanna Rogers when they were just completing their own degrees. This video gives you an idea of the program, which has directly impacted 90 SFU students from all faculties over the last 5 years, and is now being replicated and entrenched as one of SFU’s most powerful student offerings.

• The RADIUS Fellowship Program, fresh off a highly successful first year accelerating 20 of Vancouvers’ next gen social change leaders, and soon to recruit for Cohort 2.

• The Cascadia Social Innovation Train Tour – yes that is just as awesome as it sounds, check out the video below!

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