Professional Development

Remember the spark? Those moments when you feel fully aligned with your purpose. When you feel the creative energy and excitement of being part of something larger than yourself and you know that [...]

Social innovators and changemakers need support to do their incredibly important work. At Hollyhock, we’re focused on bringing together some of the brightest minds in social innovation [...]

There was once a time where we could imagine that the impacts of climate change were far away: sea-level rise affected low-lying islands in the Pacific; wildfires and drought affected Australia [...]

Are you there, Hollyhock community? It’s me, Madeleine. For those of you who I’m having the pleasure of meeting for the first time, I’m the original creator of Lunapads (rebranded as Aisle in [...]

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union or Vancity, as it is commonly called, has been a longtime partner of Social Venture Institute and Hollyhock. In the spirit of this partnership, Vancity has [...]

You’re never too old to join a revolution. At the ripe old age of 37, I took on a VP role at the Social Venture Network (now Social Venture Circle), having audaciously applied for the position [...]

Genus Capital Management Inc. has been offering innovative investment solutions for more than a quarter century. Now, Genus is championing Canada’s divest-invest movement with Fossil Free and [...]

Getting funding as an entrepreneur is not always easy, but luckily The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) prides itself as being the only bank exclusively devoted to entrepreneurs. The BDC [...]

Horizon Distributors has been supporting SVI and its community for over a decade. We sat down (virtually) with Vice President Terri Newell who shared what lessons she and Horizon have learned in [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Innovative gathering for social entrepreneurs celebrates 25 years and goes virtual with BC, Alberta, California partnership A quarter of a century ago, the idea of “social [...]

25 years ago, Hollyhock saw a need. Business and entrepreneurship was clearly ready for a major refresh. The age of profit-only valuation was creating more and more inequity, environmental [...]