12pm to 4pm Mountain Time
Bridgeland Riverside Community Hall
Come celebrate how to re-localize our communities: local food, businesses, economy and livability. Put on by Bridgeland Riverside Association and Calgary Dollars.
C$ accepted. All welcome!
Enjoy free coffee, kids activities, community spirit and local shopping.
Contact gerald at arusha.org for more information
Join together with the Tamarack Institute, the Collective Impact Forum, and Backbone organizations from across North America and internationally, to enhance your work in leading for Collective Impact. This years trainings will be similar in theme and content to the last two years of successful Champions for Change learning events. We will be holding the 2015 sessions in Washington, DC (March 24-26) and Calgary, AB (April 15-17) in 2015.
Collective Impact results when actors from different sectors commit to a common agenda for solving a complex social issue. Backbone Organizations play a complex, behind-the-scenes role in the success of these collective impact initiatives. Spanning six major activities and requiring a diversity of skills, the Backbone Organization is essential in maintaining alignment across the partners and supporting the effectiveness with which they fulfill their role. This alignment often determines the success or failure of the Collective Impact Initiative as a whole.
Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact is a multi-day interactive workshop designed for staff playing the backbone function and steering committee members of collective impact initiatives demonstrating or working to implement all five conditions of collective impact (common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support).
The Tamarack Institute and The Collective Impact Forum have partnered to develop this dynamic learning experience to offer leaders of Backbone Organizations an advanced learning opportunity designed exclusively to develop their capacity as collaborative leaders. Participants of this learning event will explore topics like:
2:00pm to 3:00pm Eastern Time
This webinar will feature some of Community Builders' own research, which examines the factors that attract entrepreneurs and an educated workforce to communities in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. As the country climbs out of the recession, communities are seeking new approaches to economic development that will give them a competitive advantage in today’s economy.
Looking forward, communities need to be creative about attracting businesses and workers. It is becoming clear that the traditional economic development approach of attracting one major industry through business incentives, long-range tax cuts, or land offerings is not effective in creating a diverse or sustainable local economy. Our results indicate that creating a strong and resilient local economy is tied to creating a great community where people want to live. Join us to learn more!
Clark Anderson directs the Sonoran Institute’s Colorado Program, which helps local partners align community planning, economic development and natural resource management goals. A native of Eagle County, Colorado, Clark’s work is inspired by a passion for the people and communities of the West.
Alison Berry is a research analyst at the Sonoran Institute focusing on economics and renewable energy.
The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) is a multidisciplinary academic organization focused on building and mobilizing knowledge around many integrated social-economic and environmental issues with a particular focus on how to avoid the “tragedy of the commons”. The organization is over 20 years old and gained significant notoriety in 2009 when one of its founding members (Elinor Ostrom) won the Nobel Prize in Economics. A significant body of research and practice speaks to the importance of common pool resource management to local and global sustainability.
The 2015 conference will focus on many kinds of common pool resources including fisheries, forests, and water resources as well as a host of emergent problems of social and environmental change. Participants in the conference will be invited to share ideas, evidence and practical solutions on questions of poverty, food security, social-ecological resilience, effective governance, human rights, indigenous knowledge, sustainable natural resource development and climate change. You can find more research and publications related to the Commons on the Library of the Commons.
Event Contact:
Dr. Brenda Parlee, University of Alberta at bparlee at ualberta.ca
2:00pm to 4:00pm
212 - 1737 West 3rd Ave
Preparation is more affordable than fixing things later. That is why we recommend that a good legal strategy is to get informed about what to look out for and what common pitfalls your co-op should avoid.
Preparation is more affordable than fixing things later. That is why we recommend that the best legal strategy is to get informed about what to look out for and what common pitfalls your co-op should avoid.
This workshop is an excellent introduction for co-op directors and managers into the common legal affairs facing co-ops. You’ll learn:
The workshop will be led by a lawyer with experience working with co-operatives, and will enable you as a director or manager of a co-operative to build an understanding of common challenges and ways to work around them.
While this workshop will be led by a legal professional, it is intended to be an introduction and overview of common legal issues and ways for co-ops to plan so that they don’t become problems. If your co-op needs specific legal advice, the BCCA can help connect you to a lawyer who may be able to help.
Attend in-person or via teleconference.
If you can't make it to the workshop in person, BCCA training sessions are available by webinar or teleconference. We'll make it happen.
Noon to 1pm Eastern Time
This webinar will build on the most recent Canadian statistics from the 2012 Canadian Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Review and emerging SRI opportunitites in Canada. We will explore how consumers can positively impact society by engaging in SRI.
Brenda is a Partner at Ellio sustainability consultants, specializing in sustainability and responsible investment. She is also involved in the development of an affordable rental housing investment fund (for accredited investors). Brenda has an MSc in International Management from HEC Montréal, a BA in Humanities and a BSW from McGill University.
Brenda is a member of the Québec Association of Professionals in Sustainable Development (AProDD) and a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). She is well known in university circles (sits on the Advisory Committee for HEC Montréal’s Graduate Diploma in Management and Sustainability and lectured at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University), in professional circles (consultant, Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Capital Équitable – a fund dedicated to the development of fair trade, etc.), and in community circles (member of the Board of Directors and Impact Investment Committee of the Béati Foundation, cofounder of Cataléthique – a network of professionals working to apply CSR and sustainability principles in their practices, past member of the Board of Directors of the Responsible Investment Association of Canada (formerly SIO) and formerly Co-chairperson of Ethical Investors Group).
Recognized by Les Affaires as one of 15 women who will make change happen in Quebec, Brenda Plant is committed to investing her life energy in bettering the world. Brenda founded a public education website focusing on responsible consumption – Ethiquette, the responsible consumer network – which operated from 2005 to 2011. She relaunched Ethiquette in September 2014, this time in conjunction with the business school of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) as a public education website on responsible investment.
