Toronto's
Centre for Social Innovation is expanding from 215 Spadina to an additional space on Bathurst Street, and as the Toronto Star reports, it's complete with an innovative way of funding it.
"Tonya Surman is giddy with excitement.
She's literally doing cartwheels inside an old building on Bathurst St., just south of Bloor, that will become the second home of the Centre for Social Innovation if Toronto city council signs off on a $4.8 million loan guarantee this week.
Surman is executive director of the centre, better known as CSI, where small businesses and organizations � all engaged in work with a public purpose � share space in an old plumbing factory on Spadina Ave.
First opened in 2004, they are now bursting at the seams with 200 social mission groups using space on two floors, with a long waiting list of non-profits and for-profit businesses clamouring to join."
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Original Source:
The Toronto Star.