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Co-operating to Build a Better Nova Scotia

Co-operating To Build a Better Nova Scotia is a provincial conference taking place at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, NS) from November 22-24, 2012 to mark the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. This exciting combination of events will bring together co-operatives, credit unions, social enterprise, researchers, academics, government, students, youth, and business service providers to reflect on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges facing co-operatives in this province and beyond.

The conference will focus on three core themes:

  • Living the Co-operative Principles - Preserving and strengthening the co-operative difference
  • Nova Scotia Co-operatives and the Global Context - International Year of Co-operatives and beyond
  • Policy - Co-operation to foster a healthy and diverse co-operative eco-system contributing to well-being, innovation and development

These themes will be addressed through four parallel streams:

  • Conference & Workshops - Plenaries, paper sessions, and interactive workshops
  • Visioning - Action framework and specific commitments for the Nova Scotia co-operative sector into the coming decade 
  • Co-op Fair and Poster Presentations - Nova Scotia co-operatives showcasing community connections; social, economic & environmental impacts; products & services
  • Community Radio - Programming, webcast, & social media conversations (ryakuga.org)

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Choice Matrix Webinar: Tools for Community Action

This Choice Matrix webinar: Tools for Community Action, will introduce CED practitioners to a website that will help find effective tools that fit their current project. But what is a tool? Any guide, worksheet, checklist, manual, “how-to” or process in text, audio or video formats that is focused on guiding the user through a task. This webinar will introduce you to hundreds of tools developed by professionals, for professionals, in a convenient and concise layout to help your community achieve development goals. 

Wednesday, August 28th  (2:00pm-3:00pm CST)

Rural Development Institute (RDI) invites anyone interested in CED to join us as we introduce the Choice Matrix.

The goals of this webinar:

  • Develop participant understanding on how the Choice Matrix works
  • To learn how the Choice Matrix could better aid you in your daily activities 
This online webinar will be moderated by Dr. Bill Ashton (RDI Director) with a presentation by Matthew Grills and Yakub Adediran (RDI Researchers) on how the Choice Matrix can make CED easier. We’ll hear from you too with a brief Q&A session to collect your thoughts.

Contact:

 

Please RSVP your participation by contacting Bev Lischka at rdi@brandonu.ca or 204-571-8515. Once registered, workshop material and details for accessing the web meeting will be emailed to you. 
 
If these dates don’t work for you please contact us—we want to hear from you! We are offering more upcoming sessions and will make every attempt to reschedule for your organization. We look forward to hearing from you!

CU Expo 2013

Grenfell Campus, Memorial Univesity
Newfoundland, Canada. 

About the Expo:

CU Expo 2013 will showcase the exemplars in community-university partnerships worldwide, and explore and introduce creative ways of strengthening our local communities.
 
The conference is expected to draw about 600 people from Canada and around the world who are passionate about the power of community-university partnerships as a vehicle for social change. Students, community leaders, researchers, educators, funders, policy makers and others invested in community-building will be in attendance.
 
The CU Expo movement began in Canada as a response to individuals involved community-university partnerships needing a forum to share experiences, strategies and ideas. CU Expo 2013 will address the conference objectives, themes and streams through a variety of session offerings and opportunities for dialogue.

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Social Finance and Innovation for Adult Basic Learning: Opportunities and Challenges

The air is filled with talk of social innovation and social finance, of social impact bonds, social entrepreneurship and pay-for-performance schemes, some very new, others much older. Few adult literacy and essential skills providers, however, can define the various concepts or models or explain their relevance or appropriateness for their own work. As traditional funding sources shrink through funding cuts by governments and declines in charitable giving, the time is right to deepen our understanding of these models and consider what kinds of new supports or adaptations of older ones might be developed collaboratively between governments, philanthropists and communities.

This three-day institute will explore a range of new funding models including many currently proposed by provincial, national and international governments. The Institute will focus on how these might apply to literacy and essential skills training in community and workplace.  We will look at case studies of pay-for-performance, social enterprise, and cooperatives with a learning agenda, and at the emerging concept of social impact bonds and other models.

The event, in Saint John, NB, from October 14-16, 2012, will bring together policy-makers, researchers, employers and workplace, learning and essential skills providers from across Canada and abroad.  

Presenters:

Presenters from Canada, the US and UK will highlight their experiences. We will examine the evolving methodology for measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI), developed in the UK with government support, and now being tested in other countries, including Canada.  Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) will share findings from recent pilot projects on social finance across the country.

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Technology, Social Media and Community Engagement

 

Speakers: Tierney Smith, Tech Soup Canada
Location: via conference call
Date: Thursday, August 16th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET 

Details:

Tierney Smith is the Community Manager of Tech Soup Canada. She regularly tests out new programs, technology and social media ideas for their use to non profits of all sizes. She writes a blog about these resources: http://www.techsoupcanada.ca/blog/11935 as part of her work. Join Tierney Smith and Liz Weaver on this call as they discuss technology and social media tools that can be used to enhance, create and measure community engagement. As always there will be an opportunity to ask your questions towards the end of the call.

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Towards a Shared Prosperity

 

Speaker: Senator Art Eggleton
Location: via conference call
Thursday, September 13th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET 

Details: 

Senator Art Eggleton has served the citizens in public office for over 37 years. He has been a City of Toronto Councillor, Mayor of Toronto, Member of Parliament representing York Centre and most recently as Senator. Senator Eggleton is co-chair of the recently formed Federal All Party Anti-Poverty Caucus. Senator Eggleton has been a strong advocate for reducing poverty and moving Canada towards a shared prosperity. Learn more about the All Party Anti-Poverty Caucus, income inequality in Canada and how Canadians must focus on a shared prosperity. There will be an opportunity for participant questions and discussion towards the end of the interview.

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