Elevate your programs to a new level of excellence! Don't miss this opportunity to hear leading international and Canadian speakers and practitioners who are at the epicentre of Creating High Impact Business & Community Partnerships.
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"Doing well by doing good" has matured from cheque book philanthropy to partnerships to an evolving emphasis on impact and tangible social and business outcomes. As the world of business and community partnerships grows in opportunity and complexity, Imagine Canada's Business & Community Partnership Forum is changing with it. Maintain your organization's competitive advantage with Canada's only national forum in which charity and business come together to learn, network, and celebrate.
MARCH 4: Be sure to maximize your Forum experience with our new, optional extra day of in-depth workshops around topics of interest to both companies and causes - Partnership Building and Measurement and Evaluation followed by site visits to innovative Vancouver business and community partnerships.
MARCH 5: The Forum features two streams: one for companies, the other for community. Here we'll explore best and next practices around measurement and evaluation, accountability, signature programs, employee engagement and then bring everyone together to celebrate the best partnerships our country has to offer at the 12th Annual Canadian Business & Community Partnership Awards.
About the Featured Speakers
Bradley K. Googins, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Bradley Googins has served as the Center's executive director since 1997 and is the co-author of Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship. Since becoming executive director, he has undertaken a major restructuring of the Center to better serve its corporate membership while pushing the corporate citizenship agenda forward in Fortune 1000 companies...more
Mary Gordon
Founder and President
Roots of Empathy and Seeds of Empathy
Mary Gordon is recognized internationally as an educator, best-selling author, child advocate and parenting expert who has created award-winning programs informed by the power of empathy. In 1996, she founded Roots of Empathy and in 2005, Ms Gordon founded the Seeds of Empathy program. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and an Ashoka Fellow...more
Dr. Michael Hall
Vice President, Research
Imagine Canada
Dr. Hall's work at Imagine Canada focuses on building the body of knowledge about Canada's charitable and nonprofit sector and the ways in which Canadians support one another and their communities. The author of numerous publications regarding nonprofit organizations, he is recognized as a leader in this area in Canada. His many publications include Cornerstones of Community: Highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (pdf); Charitable Fundraising in Canada and Assessing Performance: Evaluation Practices and Perspectives in Canada's Voluntary Sector (pdf)...more
Jason A. Saul
Founder, Managing Director
Mission Measurement, LLC
Mr. Saul is the founder and Managing Director of Mission Measurement, LLC where they help corporations, nonprofits and foundations measure and improve their social impact. Saul teaches performance measurement and benchmarking at the Center for Public/Nonprofit Management, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Saul is also the author of the book Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Manage, Measure and Improve Performance, published in 2004 by Fieldstone Press...more
