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Ethnocultural co-operatives: Race, society and co-operative emergence

The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network is pleased to offer this free public webinar:

This webinar will open the dialogue on ethnocultural co-operatives (specifically reflecting on examples across Canada and the US) and the place of these co-ops in the larger society. The two featured speakers are both undertaking research as part of the Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network: Jo-Anne Lee of the University of Victoria and Jessica Gordon-Nembhard of John Jay College, affiliated with the City University of New York.

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard will begin the webinar by providing a description of co-ops emerging in African American contexts in the US. Through her discussion of the history and examples, participants will better understand how co-operatives emerged in response to the social context, race relations and people living on the margins.

Jo-Anne Lee will examine how researchers have written about cooperatives and the absences in our understandings of co-operatives in Canadian society using the Japanese Fishing Cooperatives on the West Coast as a case study.  Co-operatives play many different roles in nation formation.  As social entities, co-operatives are bound to reflect existing power relations in the larger society including those of race, gender, class and colonialism. In addition, Jo-Anne will explore a couple of key questions:

How can we understand the relative absence of knowledge about "ethnic" cooperatives? How has this lacunae affected our knowledge and understanding of cooperatives? She will engage participants in a conversation that shifts from normative and descriptive discussions to critical thinking and reconceptualizing the role of cooperatives in larger social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

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Co-operative identity and branding: An exploration in putting your co-op foot forward

The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network invites to you this free, public webinar:

This webinar will explore the much-debated topic of co-op branding and identity. The three featured speakers will dig into this topic from different perspectives; grounded both in research as well as experience.

Georgina Whyatt will begin with an overview of her research on the implementation of a 'marketing our cooperative advantage (MOCA)' strategy. She will focus particularly on  the internal challenges to implementing such as strategy. She explored whether values are something that has to be balanced with business growth or if the two go hand in hand. She also delves into the impact of values and co-op identity on management commitment, marketing messages, internal communication/training, business processes aligned with values/ principles, and so forth. She will describe how coops/CUs work to overcome those challenges in their businesses and their branding.

Donna Balkan will present her recent research exploring co-operative identity as illustrated on Canadian co-op websites: Co-op Identity 2.0. She will speak to her metrics for measuring whether co-op identity is showcased and the results of her scan of nearly 100 co-ops and credit unions (including the 50 largest co-ops in Canada).

Carolyn Hoover of DotCooperation will speak about the “dot coop” brand, how this url showcases co-op identity and she will provide an overview of the global picture in terms of which sectors are using the .coop url.

Participants will be invited to engage with the speakers and other participants for the last portion of the webinar with their questions, comments and ideas.

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New thinking on co-operative governance - Highlights from the International Co-operative Governance Symposium

The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network is pleased to offer this free public webinar:

This webinar features the two conference organizers for the International Symposium on Co-operative Governance (September 5-7, 2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia): Karen Miner, Managing Director of Co-operative Management Education and Dr. Sonja Novkovic, Professor of Economics both from Saint Mary’s University.   The webinar will share the highlights from the Symposium including linkages to the Participation theme from the ICA’s Blueprint for a Co-op Decade and new ideas and challenges emerging in the field of governance of co-operative enterprises. This webinar also aims to build on the themes and ideas raised at the Symposium by inviting participants to engage with questions and ideas about the direction of co-operative governance.

About the speakers:
Karen Miner is the Managing Director of Co-operative Management Education at Saint Mary’s University, responsible for both the Graduate Diploma in Co-operative Management and the Master of Management, Co-operatives and Credit Unions.  Karen has a strong history in co-operative governance having served on the boards of Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Canadian Co-operative Association among others. Karen is also a certified director through the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Dr. Sonja Novkovic is the Academic Co-Director of the Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network. She is a professor in the Department of Economics within the Sobey of School Business at Saint Mary's University. Dr. Novkovic's research involves working with worker co-ops to improve their ability to operationalize the ICA principles and values through governance and management practices. Dr. Novkovic is also the Chair of the Committee on Co-operative Research with the International Co-operative

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How to Improve Job Readiness with the Hard-to-Employ

Join NNSP for a webinar with Larry Robbin on Tuesday, October 8
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific / 2:00 - 3:30 PM Eastern
$45 to register / $25 for NNSP members

Do you struggle to help people with limited work histories, multiple barriers, or low motivation to find employment? How can you improve the job-readiness of these hard-to-employ individuals?

People who are hard-to-employ may have little or no work history, multiple barriers to employment, and low levels of motivation to go to work. Serving this group with effective job readiness strategies has often been a huge challenge for workforce programs.
 
Part of the problem is that most people doing workforce and sector work do not come from the ranks of the hard-to-employ, so it is difficult for people to understand the worldview of the population. This revealing webinar will help you see the world through the eyes of the hard-to-employ so you can design appropriate strategies to work with them.
 
In the webinar, you will:

  • Find out from interviews with hundreds of people that made the journey from hard-to-employ to working person what helped them make that journey.
  • Learn multiple innovative job readiness strategies that worked for these individuals so you can put them into your work.
  • Discover how to shift your work from an information-based to an experience-oriented model.
  • Find out how to use cohorts, program alumni, and individual empowerment strategies to improve job readiness.
  • Organize a job readiness coalition that will provide wrap-around, comprehensive barrier removal services.

If you want to help people who are far from being in the labor market move closer to employment, do not miss this webinar.

larry-robbin-photoAbout the presenter:

Larry Robbin, Executive Director of Robbin and Associates, has over 45 years of experience in workforce development working with the hard-to-employ. Besides his direct service experience, Larry has designed successful workforce programs for every population that can be found in the ranks of the hard-to-employ. His innovative approaches have been used to lead thousands of people from long-term unemployment and multiple barriers to a paycheck. Larry is widely regarded as a national expert on helping hard-to-employ people become job ready. He has trained over 100,000 people and presented at over 500 workforce and business conferences.

Enterprising Non-Profits Nova Scotia by webinar

The Enterprising Non-Profits NS Grant Program
Upcoming Workshops and Grant Application Deadline

If you're thinking about starting an enterprise activity that will support both the mission and financial needs of your non-profit organization, this is the workshop for you.

More and more non-profits are exploring income-generating enterprises as a way to:

  • enhance their programs and services;
  • achieve their missions more effectively; and
  • generate new revenues that enable them to diversify their funding bases.

This workshop is intended for staff, board members and volunteers of non-profit organizations that are considering launching, expanding, strengthening their enterprise and/or are new to social enterprise.  It introduces participants to social enterprise and the Enterprising Non-Profits program (go to http://enterprisingnonprofits.ca for more information), and walks them through the grant application process. 

Note: Organizations wishing to apply for the Fall round of enp grant assistance (application deadline: November 15) must have attended an enp Orientation Workshop. 

The Workshop will give you the following:

1.Knowledge of the enp program – its resources, supports and grant assistance

2.Enhanced knowledge of social enterprise

3.An understanding of the enp application process, and answers to application questions

Workshops

There are three Enterprising Non-profits workshops coming up next month. You can sign up for your preferred session below:

October 22, 9am - 12pm:  Liverpool CBDC 

October 23, 9am - 12pm: Dartmouth Sportsplex - Valardo Room

October 24, 11:30am - 1:30pm: Online

Registration fee:

$20 per person for the online course. Note that this is the first time we are holding an online enp-NS course, so the rate is discounted.
 

$45 per person for in-person sessions in Liverpool and Dartmouth.  The registration fee includes breakfast.  This fee covers the cost of the room rental, handouts, nourishment and facilitator. 

The benfits of attending the in-person workshop include the following:

- More interaction between facilitator and participants

- Ability to network with other like-minded not-for-profits

- Paper handouts of the forms (we will provide them electronically for the online course and after the in-person workshop for participants)

More about enp-NS:

  • Assists Nova Scotian nonprofits to start and grow social enterprises – businesses that address community issues
  • Provides training, resources and social enterprise development grants
  • Funded by Province of Nova Scotia
  • An initiative in collaboration with enp-BC (www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca)

Enterprising Non-Profits Nova Scotia @ Darmouth

The Enterprising Non-Profits NS Grant Program
Upcoming Workshops and Grant Application Deadline

If you're thinking about starting an enterprise activity that will support both the mission and financial needs of your non-profit organization, this is the workshop for you.

More and more non-profits are exploring income-generating enterprises as a way to:

  • enhance their programs and services;
  • achieve their missions more effectively; and
  • generate new revenues that enable them to diversify their funding bases.

This workshop is intended for staff, board members and volunteers of non-profit organizations that are considering launching, expanding, strengthening their enterprise and/or are new to social enterprise.  It introduces participants to social enterprise and the Enterprising Non-Profits program (go to http://enterprisingnonprofits.ca for more information), and walks them through the grant application process. 

Note: Organizations wishing to apply for the Fall round of enp grant assistance (application deadline: November 15) must have attended an enp Orientation Workshop. 

The Workshop will give you the following:

1.Knowledge of the enp program – its resources, supports and grant assistance

2.Enhanced knowledge of social enterprise

3.An understanding of the enp application process, and answers to application questions

Workshops

There are three Enterprising Non-profits workshops coming up next month. You can sign up for your preferred session below:

October 22, 9am - 12pm:  Liverpool CBDC 

October 23, 9am - 12pm: Dartmouth Sportsplex - Valardo Room

October 24, 11:30am - 1:30pm: Online

Registration fee:

$20 per person for the online course. Note that this is the first time we are holding an online enp-NS course, so the rate is discounted.
 

$45 per person for in-person sessions in Liverpool and Dartmouth.  The registration fee includes breakfast.  This fee covers the cost of the room rental, handouts, nourishment and facilitator. 

The benfits of attending the in-person workshop include the following:

- More interaction between facilitator and participants

- Ability to network with other like-minded not-for-profits

- Paper handouts of the forms (we will provide them electronically for the online course and after the in-person workshop for participants)
 

More about enp-NS:

  • Assists Nova Scotian nonprofits to start and grow social enterprises – businesses that address community issues
  • Provides training, resources and social enterprise development grants
  • Funded by Province of Nova Scotia
  • An initiative in collaboration with enp-BC (www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca)

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