12:00pm - 1:30pm Eastern Time

Financial well-being isn’t just about accessing the right information, but understanding how our financial decisions can be influenced by other cognitive processes.

Register for the Insights to Impact webinar

In this webinar, researchers Katy Davis and Emily Zimmerman from Ideas42 will share details about what behavioural science is, the key insights it has generated, and explore behavioural “nudges” and other interventions that can be used to strengthen financial empowerment programs and services.

8:00am to 4:00pm Mountain Time
Ambrose University
150 Ambrose Circle Southwest

Applying the fundamentals of community organizing to build a movement for social change, participants will think conceptually about their own leadership and the mission of their institutions. Through this course, participants will learn and practice the skills necessary to build broad-based organizations through which they can act on their values and interests in the world. The course will be delivered by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), one of the leaders in North America on community mobilization, and will include practitioners from across western Canada. June 12 - 16. Offered as part of the Poverty Studies Summer Institute.

Register for Community Organizing for Social Change

Instructor: Joe Chrastil, Regional Organizer, Industrial Areas Foundation

Join Eric Tusz-King for this unique training event to learn how to harness the power of co-ops to address poverty.Eric has decades of experience, and a Masters of Adult Education in community development. He has been a member of or assisted in the development of consumer, worker, multi-stakeholder and charitable co-ops.

Register for Co-op Development for Poverty Reduction

An overview of co-operative enterprises and co-operative development as an effective approach to poverty reduction. Participants will learn about the co-operative movement, its history in Canada and internationally, and the values and principles of co-operatives and their contribution to resolving social, environmental, and economic challenges. The course includes skill building in leadership development. Instruction will be provided by Coop Zone, Canada's leading provider of co-op development education. Offered as part of the Poverty Studies Summer Institute.

9:00am - 12:30pm

Building on his 2016 book "An Army of Problem Solvers", social entrepreneur Shaun Loney will take participants through a 7 part process to dig into the art and science of solving complex problems, particularly at the local community scale. Learn about how to see poverty and other social and environmental challenges as opportunities, how to better understand the motivations and drivers of peoples, businesses, and government, and how to support the re-emergence of Indigenous economics.

Loney draws from a rich well of practical learnings as one of Canada's leading social enterprise developers, uncovering the secrets to successful social enterprises, profiling the skills and mindsets required of community-focused entrepreneurs, and reporting on the rural renaissance through the small farm movement.

Register for Reconciliation and the Solutions Economy: Workshop for Changemakers

The workshop will also explore policies and practices necessary to decolonizing government, helping communities become active beneficiaries in the transition to clean energy, and supporting the solutions economy.

This two and a half-day event is limited to 25 registrants. Cost is $300 per person. Lunch and morning refreshments are included.

Shaun Loney has co-founded and mentored 11 social enterprises, including BUILD Inc, which won the 2011 Scotia Bank EcoLiving Green Business of the Year, and the 2013 Manitoba Apprenticeship Employer of the Year. Before co-founding BUILD Inc, he was Director of Energy Policy for the Government of Manitoba, and political advisor to Gary Doer’s NDP. Loney is the first prairie Canadian to be awarded an Ashoka Fellowship (2015) and was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014. 

This event is connected with EconoUs 2017 (Sept. 13-15), and is hosted by the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University and Thrive Calgary.