The Guayaki Company, a RPC investee, was featured recently by several news outlets.

At this year’s Social Change Institute, Jessy Tolkan shared an intriguing view of how the nonprofit sector can reframe the current political climate for social and environmental change — which many view to be far from collaborative — and come out stronger than ever.

At seven years of age, Emcee Flower opened up for international hip-hop artist Nneka when she performed in Uganda. The youngest female artist to ever open for an international star in the East African country raps in a style known as Luga Flow, using Native African languages, and has risen to fame for her talent of mixing critical thinking and advocacy around suffering children in Africa.

SVI alums Jennifer Williams and Peter ter Weeme featured in the June issue of SEE Change Magazine

MANSONS LANDING, B.C. – Big trees and grizzly bears drew Tzeporah Berman to environmental advocacy. Twenty years later, a conversation with a Liberian man is uprooting those assumptions, and providing new juice to her work. The co-founder of ForestEthics and a campaigner against the Northern Gateway pipeline presented her journey to author a new book This Crazy Time at Social Change Institute June 9.

MANSONS LANDING, B.C. – Co-founder of 350.org Jeremy Osborn remembers April 14, 2007 as one of the most beautiful days of his life. That was the day he and six friends, all newly graduated university students, worked with author and environmentalist Bill McKibben to launch a day of action calling on U.S. Congress to “step it up” and cut carbon 80 per cent by 2050.

MANSONS LANDING, B.C. – Twenty-nine-year-old Julia Pope is developing a network where thought leaders in health-care convene to explore next steps to enhance patient safety. The first-time Social Change Institute (SCI) attendee has a personal mission to make health-care safer, and attended the five-day conference to connect with others vying to make large-scale social change.

For eight years, Cara Pike has been researching and exploring new models of change theory, and she says the timing is right to share her learnings at the Social Change Institute (SCI). Cara is a SCI co-producer and director of the Social Capital Project, which develops and promotes best practices in environmental communications and behaviour change.

What if a conference could ignite your passion, deepen your commitment to meaningful work and connect you to a diverse tribe of people who will support your journey? This is what Renewal Partners president Joel Solomon says Social Change Institute (SCI) offers participants June 6-10 at Hollyhock lifelong learning centre on Cortes Island.