Systems Thinking for Social Change

SYSTEMS THINKING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

DEEP Summer Engineering

Academy

INTENTIONS

EXPECTATIONS

REALITIES

NON-PROFIT PROFIT

SOCIAL INNOVATION

Social innovation refers to the creation, development, adoption, and integration of new concepts and practices that

put people and the planet first. Social innovations resolve existing social, cultural, economic, and environmental

challenges.

Even more simply, a social innovation is an idea that works for the public good. 

Social innovations come from individuals, groups or organizations, and can take place in the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Increasingly, they are happening in the spaces between these three sectors as perspectives

collide to spark new ways of thinking. 

- Centre for Social Innovation

NON-PROFIT PROFIT TRADITIONAL

NON-PROFIT PROFIT

WIDE-SCALE DISRUPTIVE SYSTEMS CHANGE

OFFSET EXPENSES THROUGH SALE OF GOODS/SERVICES

theSedge.org at Acumen

NON-PROFIT PROFIT

WIDE-SCALE DISRUPTIVE SYSTEMS CHANGE

OFFSET EXPENSES THROUGH SALE OF GOODS/SERVICES

theSedge.org at Acumen

COMPLEX & HIGHLY

INTERCONNECTED

Social innovation creates wide-scale,

lasting systems change for the

benefit of society.

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING DIRECTOROPERATION GROUNDSWELL

JUSTINE ABIGAIL YU

justine@operationgroundswell.com

@OGbackpackers OperationGroundswell