Brenton Caffin is the Chief Executive Officer of TACSI - The Australian Centre for Social Innovation. In a recent visit to SiG@MaRS, Brenton gave us 5 minutes to describe the centre and tell us about their upcoming projects.
TACSI was born out of the work of Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Geoff Mulgan, Director of The Young Foundation.
He believed that the time was ripe for a centre of excellence in social innovation in Australia and that South Australia was a natural base for this kind of work due to a unique combination of factors such as a history of 'punching above its weight' in social innovation (South Australia was the first state in the world to allow women to stand for parliament, it addressed disadvantage in housing with the South Australian Housing Trust and introduced the Prohibition of Discrimination Act in 1966 - to name a few) and being the right size to experiment, test and upscale socially innovative projects.
