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How can you help your organization develop a comprehensive evaluation strategy?

Are you interested in learning how to assess the impact of your organization's efforts to address complex problems? Are you looking for a way to use evaluation as a tool for strategic learning? Are you concerned that your current evaluation efforts are ad hoc, not aligned to strategy, underfunded, and underused? Join us for Connecting Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning in Your Organization, a one-hour webinar that will help your organization find out how to take a more strategic approach to evaluation and learning, and provide you with a deeper understanding of what it means to develop a comprehensive strategy for evaluation through the development of a Strategic Learning and Evaluation System.

We will help you ensure that your organization's investments in evaluation and learning are contributing to your ability to achieve greater impact.

Register today!

Medina Haeri Lanz, Programme Associate at Oak Foundation, Rebekah Levin, Director of Evaluation and Learning for the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and Brenda Solórzano, Chief Program Director at Blue Shield of California Foundation, will join FSG’s Hallie Preskill and Katelyn Mack for a lively webinar discussion focused on:

• Conditions that support an integrated approach to strategy, evaluation, and learning
• Common challenges to designing and implementing a Strategic Learning and Evaluation System
• How organizations are using a Strategic Learning and Evaluation System to achieve their goals

About FSG:

FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in research, strategy, and evaluation, founded in 2000 as Foundation Strategy Group. Today, FSG works across all sectors in every region of the globe – partnering with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments – to develop more effective solutions to the world's most challenging issues. FSG helps organizations, individually and collectively, achieve social impact by discovering better ways to solve social problems. For more information on FSG, visit us online at www.fsg.org

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FREE Webinar!

Membership to a strong community has the capacity to improve our physical, mental, and economic health, as well as our overall sense of happiness and fulfillment. In short, everyone benefits from a strong community. It's in our DNA.

So how do we create a deep community in an age where we've learned to value keeping mostly to ourselves, only occasionally seeing our friends and relatives?

Bestselling author of Stewardship Peter Block joins us for a discussion on the subject of community with Deepening Community author and founder of the Tamarack Institute, Paul Born.

In the chaos of the world that we live in, with environmental, economic, social uncertainties, it is only natural to join together out of fear of what lies ahead. Fear shapes our communities in interesting and powerful ways and Born invites us to explore these ideas with him.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

• How to identify a “deep” community over a shallow one
• What leaders and organizers stand to gain from a stronger community whose members focus on serving each other
• Examples of stewardship and deep community in action

…and more!

Block and Born will share their thoughts in dialogue for 45 minutes, followed by a 15-minute Q & A session between listeners and our speakers.

BONUS: Everyone who signs up for this webinar will receive a discount code in your email for 40% off your next order from our website!

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Background

One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, was the agreement by Member States to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs).  Rio+20 did not elaborate specific goals but stated that the goals should address all three dimensions of sustainable development in a balanced way and be coherent with and integrated into the UN development agenda beyond 2015. 

The Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) is preparing recommendations for the post-2015 UN Development Agenda that would include a greater role for innovative social solidarity economy practices and networks globally.  RIPESS is currently undertaking broad consultations to ensure these recommendations are reflective of the priorities of social solidarity economy stakeholders globally.  

Presenters

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  Shannon Kindornay, North-South Institute (NSI)
  Shannon leads NSI’s work on development cooperation and is a researcher with NSI's Governance for Equitable Growth program, focusing on governance of the aid architecture, aid effectiveness, and aid and the private sector. Prior to joining NSI, Ms. Kindornay worked on human rights, governance, and trade and development at the Canadian International Development Agency.
   

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  Daniel Tygel, Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS)
  Daniel is Operations Manager of RIPESS, representing the Network at the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service Consultations on Advancing Regional Recommendations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda last fall.  He was previously Executive Secretary of the Brazil Solidarity Economy Forum. 

Download the PowerPoint presentation (pdf)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

United Nations

• United Nations Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
• United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service Policy Brief #1, "Recommendations on Macroeconomic Issues" for the UN General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
• Dialogue: Data and Accountability for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
• United Nations Association of Canada
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Potentials and Limits of SSE (2013)
• Report "Advancing Regional Recommendations on Post-2015"
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Social and Solidarity Economy: A New Path to Sustainable Development
• United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy

North-South Institute

• North-South Institute
• North-South Institute's Post - 2015 Tracking Tool
• Post-2015 Development Agenda Stakeholder Map

RIPESS

• Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS)
• RIPESS Global Consultation on the Social and Solidarity Economy Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
• Corporate Influence in the Post 2015 Process
• RIPESS Delcaration for Rio +20
• Creation of the UN Task Force on SSE
• RIPESS contributions to the SDSN report on "Sustainable Development Indicators"
• RIPESS Global Consultation on the SSE recommendations to the post-2015 Development Agenda

International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Social and Solidarity Economy Academy
• Document on the SSE contributions to decent work

Other Resources

• Sustainable Development Goals e-Inventory
• Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC)
• Post2015.org: what comes after the MDGs?
• Beyond 2015, a global civil society campaign for a successor framework to the MDGs

12-1pm Eastern time

This webinar will cover:

• How to build the “skills + passion = profitable products” equation
• How to find out what you’re good at (strengths)
• 3 ways to discover your strengths
• The 6 steps to monetization (on-line and off)
• Real-life examples of people who are making money off of their creative passion
• An exercise for participants to generate some ideas for additional or new revenue streams

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Format:

Guest Speaker:

April M. Stewart, CPRS | PR/Communications Consultant

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Join people from across the region to celebrate the achievements of women, while exploring topics in entrepreneurship, leadership and empowerment.

Experience keynote speaker Paula Morand - this energetic and innovative CEO, success coach and leadership speaker has empowered hundreds of individuals, businesses and organizations to THRIVE!

Participate in interactive workshops that will apply a gender lens to topics in entrepreneurship, leadership and empowerment. This year sign-up for workshops will take place when you arrive in the morning - first come, first served until spaces are filled.

Network & build relationships for the future.

Your ticket includes:

• Keynote address by Paula Morand
• 2 skill-building Workshops (selected from 6)*
• Panel discussion
• Exhibitor’s Marketplace & networking breaks
• Special guest & a special performance
• delicious lunch & snacks at the beautiful Delta Brunswick
• Access to Cocktails & Canvas, a pre-event mixer on Thursday, March 6^th

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*Registration for workshops will happen the morning of the event on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive early to ensure your spot!

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Join us for the 2nd Annual Social Enterprise Dialogue April 24th and 25th in Saint John. Help build the social enterrprise ecosystem and your own social enterprise. It's a place where we think outside the box.

Entertainment, mentor minutes, pitch competition, inspiring speakers, and idea generating workshops! Stay tuned and check out what people had to say about the 1st Dialogue!