1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time

Human-Centred Design and Design Thinking, popularized by innovation firms such as IDEO and institutions such as Stanford’s d.school, are rapidly being adopted as approaches to innovation across the private, public, and voluntary sector. The promise of these approaches is alluring – that seeking to deeply understand the perspective of those impacted by a service, program, or system, and adopting an iterative, prototype-driven approach to problem-solving will result in revolutionary changes that will benefit all. But, is that promise always possible?

In this introductory one-hour webinar join Galen MacLusky, Tamarack’s Director of Community Innovation, as he explores Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking, and their relevance for community changemakers. 

Register for Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking, and Community Change

Speaker

Galen MacLusky is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Community Innovation Idea Area. He is passionate about working with community organizations to help build and scale new ideas that deepen their impact. An experienced design, innovation, and co-creation consultant, at the core of his work are approaches that help organizations engage with those who are impacted by their services and test new programs and services with minimal investment. Over the past five years, Galen has used these approaches to help Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations across North America reinvent the services and programs they provide. Galen is an experienced human-centred design coach and holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Design and Innovation from Northwestern University.

1:30pm to 3:00pm Eastern Time

Increasing sales is typically the only way a business can grow and, in the case of the social economy, increase its social, environmental and economic impact. But how can a co-operative step into optimal hustle mode in a way that aligns with its values, culture and brand image?

In this webinar, co-operative members will have 90 minutes to take stock of their current approach to sales, notice their lost opportunities and brainstorm new approaches to increasing sales.

Register for Growing Sales in Your Co-op

Topics:

• Coop sales scan: Where do our sales come from, how do we make them, how have our sales met our revenue and expenses needs over the last few years? Why do we need to increase sales?
• What we sell, what is sellable about it?
• Whom we sell it to (audience & segments)
• How & where we sell it (message & channels)
• How much we sell it for (mark-up, competitive pricing)
• Coop Scan & report back: Where are our missed opportunities and how do we meet these opportunities in a way that aligns with our values, culture and brand image? Is the issue really sales, or our margins, costs, etc.?

You will leave with ideas and strategies that are appropriate to your co-operative and in line with your brand image.

About the Presenter

Stephanie specializes in multi-stakeholder team building and participatory business planning. She helps individuals locate themselves in, engage with and affect the systems they inhabit, empowering them every step of the way. BA studies in political sciences and international development at McGill University (Montreal) and a Masters of Management of Cooperatives and Credit Unions at St Mary's University (Halifax) provided a unique bridge between the inquisitive, analytical approach of the humanities and management's process-oriented, problem-solving ethos.

Starting her career in community development as Marketing and Membership Coordinator at Coop la Maison Verte in Montreal (2009-2012), she has built diverse local coalitions in Montreal and New York, and mobilized stakeholders towards system-level impact in various countries. She brings concrete experience in political advocacy & lobby work at city, province and federal levels, and a keen understanding of the diverse mix of factors essential to culturally and locally-appropriate community development.

1:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time

Amid rising economic insecurity, persistent racial inequities, and an uncertain future of work, a federal job guarantee is a big idea whose time has come. By ensuring that every person who wants to work has access to a quality job, a job guarantee could eliminate involuntary unemployment and raise the floor on low-wage work while building stronger communities.

To produce equitable outcomes, the policy must be designed with equity in mind. That is why PolicyLink, in partnership with Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., created a set of policy principles to guide the development of a federal job guarantee that delivers maximum benefits, particularly for those left behind in our current economy.

Register for 10 Principles for a Federal Job Guarantee

Join this webinar with job guarantee experts and advocates to learn more about these principles and how to use them to assess and craft policy proposals.

Featured Speakers:

• Dr. Alan Aja, Associate Professor, Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College
• Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
• Ady Barkan, Director of Local Progress and Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
• Dr. William Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
• Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School
• Dr. Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Stony Brook University
• Sarah Treuhaft, Senior Director, PolicyLink (Moderator)

River Cree Resort
300 E Lapotac

The Economic Development Youth Summit is designed for First Nations, Métis, Inuit and non-Indigenous Youth from across Canada within the age group of 18-30 years old.

The Summit will promote the field of Community Economic Development and the role of the Economic Development Officer to youth. 

Register for the Economic Development Youth Summit

• Tremendous need for increased capacity building in economic development in Indigenous communities throughout Canada.
• Seeking input of youth in Indigenous community economic development priorities and solutions.
• Promote economic development as a career choice for youth and showcase the positive impact Indigenous EDOs 
  can have on communities.

Click here to download the registration package for details. 

 2:00pm Eastern Time

In this webinar, you will become acquainted with OCAP® and their online training course Fundamentals of OCAP®.

The First Nations principles of OCAP® are a set of standards that establish how First Nations data should be collected, protected, used, or shared. They are the de facto standard for how to conduct research with First Nations. Standing for ownership, control, access and possession, OCAP® asserts that First Nations have control over data collection processes in their communities, and that they own and control how this information can be used.

Register for Research Principles for Working with First Nations

Questions: Meghan Wrathall, 819-345-3777

Effective governance and policy-making is based upon sound, quality data. Rather than First Nations people being perpetual subjects of other’s research, policies like OCAP, which encourage First Nations participation in and ownership of data, contribute to effect policy making by leaders as well as ensuring research that actually meets the needs of communities themselves.

First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIG), is a First Nations organization well-known for conducting and storing the information from our on-reserve Regional Health Surveys across Canada. We have also developed the OCAP® Principles which also help First Nations implement. Our mission is to strengthen First Nations’ data sovereignty and the development of governance and information management systems at the community level. We adhere to free, prior and informed consent, respect na-tion-to-nation relationships, and recognize the distinct customs of nations, to achieve transformative change.

Using Insights from the Collective Impact Cross-Site Study to Improve Your Impact

3:00pm to 4:30pm Eastern Time

What do we know about the practices that lead to positive systems and population changes in collective impact initiatives?

Join us on Tuesday, May 15 from 3pm – 4:30pm ET for this free webinar to explore actionable insights gleaned from an in-depth study of 25 collective impact sites. We will discuss what we learned about the implementation of the collective impact approach, the ways in which equity practices and capacity contribute to outcomes, and how early changes and system changes contribute to population level impact.

Register for When is Colletive Impact Most Impactful

Webinar Presenters

• Terri Akey, Director, ORS Impact
• Lauren Gase, Senior Researcher, Spark Policy Institute
• Jennifer Splansky Juster, Executive Director, Collective Impact Forum
• Sarah Stachowiak, CEO, ORS Impact \

We'll be taking questions in the webinar's "chat box" so pleases bring your questions about what YOU would like to hear about.

Can't make the actual webinar time? Registering also means you'll be notified when this session is uploaded to the Collective Impact Forum resource library.

Webinar Resources:

• Report and Executive Summary: When Collective Impact has an Impact: A Cross-Site Study of 25 Collective Impact Initiatives
• Blog Post: New Research Study: When Collective Impact Has an Impact

We hope you will come join the discussion on May 15!