Impact Hub Ottawa

Ottawa’s Amy and Kjell Wooding are developing a story-based learning app that is in the running for a major international prize.

SHE BIZ is an online marketplace that connects women with women-led business, with a particular focus on women who are newcomers in Ottawa and women in trades.

Timsle is a new app that helps people stay accountable and take care of themselves by connecting with friends known as accountability buddies.

Come to Impact Hub Ottawa on Tuesday, September 25 where we’ll be meeting, introducing, brainstorming, and collaborating with volunteers.

A new session of 613U Summer School begins on August 8, 2018.

Animal Justice, Canada’s leading legal advocates for animal protection, are celebrating their 10th year of putting animals on the legal map in our country.

Ottawa Civic Tech is hosting an event Tuesday, May 22 at Bayview Yards: a discussion with digital changemakers from all three levels of government, sharing stories of their successes, challenges and ongoing plans on delivering government services to citizens.

Dozens of people gathered on the cold morning of April 14 at Parliament Hill and ByWard Market.

Hidden Harvest Ottawa is the winner of the Ottawa Social Impact Awards in the Social Enterprise category. In 2017, with a veritable army of 400 volunteers, they were able to harvest more than 200 trees and rescue more than 6,400 pounds of fresh, local fruit from going to waste.

Over the last three decades, Algonquin College Public Relations Agency has raised over $300,000. This student-run organization is the winner of the Ottawa Social Impact Awards in the Future Leaders category.

Ausome Ottawa won the Ottawa Social Impact Award in the Community Initiative category. The organization works with families touched by autism to play and be physically active like any typical family.

Mike Bulthuis, Director of Making the Shift, a Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab, and colleagues are testing approaches to tackle the pervasive challenge of youth homelessness in Canada right here in Ottawa.

Impact Hub Ottawa celebrated its 5th birthday this past December as one of Ottawa’s oldest and largest co-working communities and marked the milestone by releasing a how to guide to Do Good Better.

Do you know an Ottawa group or business that is making our city a better place? Nominations for the 2nd Ottawa Social Impact Awards are now open.