Projecting Change Interview with BC MLA Gordon Hogg

BC Advisory Council for Social Entrepreneurship

In February 2011 enp reported on the newly appointed Advisory Council to BC MLA Gordon Hogg (Parliamentary Secretary for Social Entrepreneurship) and the Council's meeting on February 7.  At the meeting was Premier Gordon Campbell and Finance Minister Colin Hansen (plus David LePage from enp).  For information on the meeting and the work of the Council, click here.

Gordon Hogg was recently interviewed.  (Click here to see a video of the interview). 

Below are notes about the interview (From Projecting Change 2011 Blog at http://projectingchange.ca/2011/05/03/vancouver-is-socially-innovating/)

"Gordon is the only MLA in Canada to have been designated a Parliamentary Secretary for Social Innovation and in February of this year he interviewed and selected a 16-member advisory council of leading innovators in this field.  Vancouver is on the verge of major cultural shift even being referenced as “Canada’s Silicon Valley” by Tim Draimin executive director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) in Toronto.

I asked Gordon a few questions about why Vancouver is a leading city for social innovation, what social innovation really means, how his PhD research will impact Vancouver, as well as where he views the future of social innovation within the nonprofit sector? I hope you enjoyed his answers as much as I did.

Social innovation, in its most simple form, as described by Gordon Hogg, is “using the power of the market place to address social needs.” Through the creation of new government policy which remove the current impediments holding nonprofits in unsustainable funding models we can allow great innovations within the field. ..."