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November 19th webinar: Lisa Gansky on The Mesh

Lisa Gansky

Join ResilientEconomies.ca at 11am (EST) on November 19th for a webinar and discussion with Lisa Gansky.

Details about how to join this webinar will be posted here and emailed to those who have RSVP’d in advance: RSVP now!

About the Mesh

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root – one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it the Mesh and reveals why it will soon dominate the future of business.

Mesh companies create, share and use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright. Gansky reveals how there is real money to be made and trusted brands and strong communities to be built in helping your customers buy less but use more.

How can local neighbourhoods take advantage of the Mesh? Join us to find out. RSVP now!

About Lisa Gansky

The Mesh: Why The Future of Business is Sharing

Lisa is an entrepreneur, author of the bestselling book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing and the founder of Mesh Labs and the Mesh Directory at www.meshing.it, a global community of organizations, agencies and companies working to define and expand the Sharing Economy. She is a recognized international thought leader in the design of new products, services, partnerships and business models in which ‘access’ to goods, services and talent triumphs over the ownership of them’. Lisa invests, advises, speaks and writes on the topics of the Sharing Economy, the hidden value in waste, the social nature of brands, business platforms and evolving models for businesses, ‘meshy’ manufacturing strategies and, the design of cities and communities in our world as we approach 9 Billion people.

Lisa’s specific passion and interest is to create & test new models and partnerships that will engender vitality in our daily life and economy between companies, communities and local governments.

Lisa is a serial entrepreneur, ‘marketect’ and impact junky focused on building companies and supporting ventures where there is an opportunity for well timed disruption. A founder and CEO of several internet companies, including GNN (the first web portal sold to AOL) and the largest consumer photo sharing and print service, Ofoto (now Kodak Gallery), Lisa’s attention is on sustainable ventures with positive impact. She puts a strong emphasis on the exploration of new platforms & business models through access based strategies and community engagement via social networks and shareable product design.

Lisa currently serves as Chief Instigator of Mesh Labs and she is a director and investor in several ventures including: Loosecubes, Honest Buildings, New Resource Bank, Makani Power, PixelPipe, RelayRides, Ridepal, Sidecar, Scoot Networks, Squidoo, TaskRabbit, and Vayable. Lisa is a co-founder and director of Dos Margaritas, an environmental foundation focused on community based conservation in Latin America.

 

Charitable Status and CED: What You Need to Know (Webinar recording)

This summer, the Canada Revenue Agency published CG-014 - Community Economic Development Activities and Charitable Registration Guidance.  This document replaces Guide RC4143, Registered Charities: Community Economic Development Programs and marks the first significant update since 1999.  This webinar examined what has changed in the new guidance, what hasn’t, and what organizations that have or are considering applying for charitable status need to know. 

BACKGROUND

Community Economic Development was first explicitly recognized as a potentially eligible charitable activity by the Canada Revenue Agency in 1999.  Since then, the field has evolved rapidly, with program-related investments, social enterprise and social finance emerging as innovative practices that left charities wondering about their eligibility. 

In this session, representatives of the Canada Revenue Agency reviewed the new guidance and clarify what has changed, what hasn’t and what the changes mean for organizations with or considering seeking charitable registration for CED activities. 

CANADA REVENUE AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES

  • Joanne Cousineau
    Joanne is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Common Law Policy and Public Education Section of the Charities Directorate. 
  • Guy Gagnon
    Guy is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Common Law Policy and Public Education Section of the Charities Directorate
  • Christine Tessier
    Christine is a Policy Technical Advisor with the Client Interface and Service Division  of the Charities Directorate

WEBINAR RECORDING

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Economic and Social Rights Online Course

November 19 - December 16

About the Course:

The purpose of the course, is to build a growing ‘Community of Practice’ who can articulate and use human rights language in anti-poverty work.  The success of the last course confirmed the need for human rights education and the strength of the content presented. The course was described as “amazing”, “productive” and “relevant” with a few individuals noting they felt “enlightened” and “empowered” by the experience.  Participants felt more capable of articulating details of economic and social rights and felt they not only met the goals of the course, but also their personal goals as well. 
 
Leading human rights experts will be joining the course including:
  • Leilani Farha (CWP)
  • Bruce Porter (Social Rights Advocacy Centre)
  • Shelagh Day (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action)

More information:

  • The course is four weeks in length and will run from Monday, November 19 until Sunday, December 16
  • Modules will be launched weekly. Themes include:  Introduction to Economic and Social (ES) Rights, Poverty and ES Rights, Housing and ES Rights, the Right to Health, and Women and ES Rights
  • ES Rights experts will join discussions each week and help facilitate conversations
  • An online platform is used that allows for various discussions and that will hold the online resource library
  • Cost of the course is $75.00 (due by November 9th)
The course will require a commitment of 5 hours per week for reading required materials participation in discussion rooms, as well as attendance on two conference calls and participation in the pre and post evaluation process.  The weekly five-hour online commitment can be fulfilled at any time as the online classroom is open 24/7 including weekends.
 
We have room for 30 participants and will take names on a first-come-first-serve basis.  

Registration:

Please email Kizzy Paris at Canada Without Poverty by Wednesday November 7th to ensure your place in the course:  kizzy(at)cwp-csp.ca, or call 613.789.0096
 
*Please note that the course will not run without full registration.  Confirmation will be given no later than Friday November 9th.
 
If you have any questions please email or call me at 604 558 0252.

Exploring the intersection of the economic and social elements of co-operation

 

This webinar explores where the economic and business aspects of co-operatives intersect with the social aspects of co-operatives. In exploring these concurrent bottom lines, the speakers will examine co-operatives in the context of the social economy as well as exploring how co-operatives use social accounting to critically examine their social impact as an enterprise. 
  • Dr. J.J. McMurtry of York University and editor of the book Living Economics: Perspectives on Canada's Social Economy, will define the social economy (unpacking how these two concepts can be defined together) and how co-operatives can be defined therein.
  • Dr. Laurie Mook of Arizona State University and co-author of the book What Counts: social accounting for nonprofits and cooperatives, will describe concepts of social and sustainability accounting and describe how co-operatives balance this type of measurement and performance evaluation in tandem with economic and business evaluation.
Participants in the webinar will be welcomed to share examples and comments from their own experiences.
 
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