Our featured website for October 2009 is the home site for Social Innovation Generation (SiG).

SiG is a collaborative initiative which seeks to address Canada's social and ecological challenges by creating a culture of continuous social innovation. A collaborative partnership between The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the University of Waterloo, the MaRS Discovery District, and the PLAN Institute, the initiative's ultimate goal is to support whole system change through changing the broader economic, cultural and policy context in Canada to allow social innovations to flourish.

SiG's focus will be on fostering social innovation to achieve impact, durability and scale, with key theme areas of re-engaging vulnerable populations and linking social and ecological resilience.

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Our featured link for September 2009 is the Institute of Wellbeing, home to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).

The Foundation has been a fan of the CIW since its first early days, and we're pleased to see that the initiative has recently been stimulated through the release of the first report in June of this year (click to visit How are Canadians REALLY doing?), and through the pending work on the remaining indicator areas.

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Our featured link for May 2009 is WiserEarth.org, representing a global community of more than 20,000 members.

Founded in 2007 by author Paul Hawkins, WiserEarth.org is sponsored by the Natural Capital Institute (of which Hawkins in Executive Director). Since its release, WiserEarth's functionality and tools have co-evolved with its users. Starting out as a directory, WiserEarth now offers social networking tools and groupware for people to connect and collaborate around issue areas.

World-recognized children's singer Raffi Cavoukian has launched an initiative called Child Honouring.

Child Honouring is a children-first approach to healing communities and restoring ecosystems. It views how we regard and treat our young as the key to building a humane and sustainable world. It is a novel idea—organizing society around the needs of its youngest members.

Visit the Child Honouring website for more information, including viewing the draft Covenant for Honouring Children.

You can hear more about the initiative in a podcast by Deepra Chopra on Sirius XM radio, hosted by Intent.com.