Learn with an unprecedented team of thought leaders from communities across North America that have innovative responses to COVID recovery and community building and have implemented effective social responses. Learn about the unprecedented spontaneous uprising of everyday people taking action to support their neighbours.

Most importantly talk about what comes next.

A Build Back Better Conversation:

•  What can we learn from forced social disconnection?
• What will the great reconnect look like and how do we help?
• Can we rebuild people’s trust in public spaces and community gatherings?
• Why building stronger neighbourhoods are so effective?
• Community health and the role that social connection plays in well-being.
•  How do we strengthen civil society and collective action in our cities?
•  Put community at the centre of our municipal recovery plans.
• Building back using an Asset-Based Community Development framework?

Join top keynotes

• Zita Cobb – Business Hall of Fame, Storyteller, Community builder
• John McKnight – Co-Founder, Asset Based Community Development
• Kim Samuel - Founder, the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness
• De'Amon Harges - Roving Listener & Creator, the Learning Tree
• Peter Block – Author – Community and Abundant Community
• Melanie Goodchild – Founder, Turtle Island Institute
• Paul Born – Bestselling Author of Deepening Community
• Cormac Russell – Author - Teacher – Consultant ABCD
• Jim Diers – Author – Trainer – Activist – City Leader
• Heather Keam - Tamarack's Deepening Community Lead

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CEDEC is hosting an interactive webinar with the Canada Revenue Agency for small businesses and non-profits with employees on Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan. This free online information session will cover the recent changes to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program. We will also briefly highlight the new programs that have recently been put in place to replace the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB).

There are a limited number of spaces available to allow participants to ask questions directly to our presenter. A link will be sent by email once registration is completed.

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CEDEC is hosting an interactive webinar with the Canada Revenue Agency for small businesses and non-profits with employees on Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan. This free online information session will cover the recent changes to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program. We will also briefly highlight the new programs that have recently been put in place to replace the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB).

There are a limited number of spaces available to allow participants to ask questions directly to our presenter. A link will be sent by email once registration is completed.

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Social procurement is emerging across Canada as a powerful tool for building healthy communities. Buy Social Canada offers the SUPER Project (Social Procurement Supplier Readiness) tools, resources, and training to help social enterprises and social value suppliers respond to the growing demand for social value in purchasing. Social value suppliers will be able to learn the skills needed to access procurement opportunities and contracts that provide the revenue to increase their social value creation.

Reach your procurement potential with the Buy Social Canada ‘Procurement for Social Value Suppliers’ workshop. This four-week, in-depth training will teach social value suppliers about the intricacies of procurement and the skills to access growing demand for social value in procurement.

‘Procurement for Social Value Suppliers’ is a hands-on learning experience where you will finish the program with foundational tools to bid for contracts. Topics that will be covered include finding opportunities, responding to bids and telling your social value story. Each week will comprise of a two-hour session hosted online.

Participants will also receive a customized one-on-one coaching session to help reach your social procurement market access potential.

The SUPER Project (Social Procurement Supplier Readiness) is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program.

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Social procurement is emerging across Canada as a powerful tool for building healthy communities. Buy Social Canada offers the SUPER Project (Social Procurement Supplier Readiness) tools, resources, and training to help social enterprises and social value suppliers respond to the growing demand for social value in purchasing. Social value suppliers will be able to learn the skills needed to access procurement opportunities and contracts that provide the revenue to increase their social value creation.

Reach your procurement potential with the Buy Social Canada ‘Procurement for Social Value Suppliers’ workshop. This four-week, in-depth training will teach social value suppliers about the intricacies of procurement and the skills to access growing demand for social value in procurement.

‘Procurement for Social Value Suppliers’ is a hands-on learning experience where you will finish the program with foundational tools to bid for contracts. Topics that will be covered include finding opportunities, responding to bids and telling your social value story. Each week will comprise of a two-hour session hosted online.

Participants will also receive a customized one-on-one coaching session to help reach your social procurement market access potential.

The SUPER Project (Social Procurement Supplier Readiness) is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program.

Learn more