10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

What Cities and Counties Can Do

Across the country, communities and local governments are leading efforts to ensure that economic development delivers real community benefits like good jobs for local residents, community stability and housing that people can afford, community amenities like grocery stores and health clinics and environmental mitigation. City and county officials and staff and their community partners have pioneered new tools for success. Come learn what strategies are most effective, what pitfalls to avoid and what are the latest success stories.

Register for Delivering Community Benefits through Economic Development

Advance registration is required

Presenters include:

• Mike O’Brien, City Councilmember, City of Seattle. Councilmember O’Brien has led a number of efforts to establish community benefits in new economic development amidst an exploding real estate market.
• Jahmese Myres, Planning Commissioner, City of Oakland and Campaign Director, EBASE. Commissioner Myres has both led coalition efforts to win community benefits and worked as a planning commissioner on land use measures that support community benefits.
• Ben Beach, Director of the Community Benefits Law Center and a national expert on community benefits

Who should attend?

• Elected and appointed officials 
• City and County staff who work on economic development, workforce development, and planning 
• City and County attorneys 
• Organizations that work with local government on community benefits 

Local Progress is a national municipal policy network. 
For more information please visit localprogress.org

10:00am to 11:00am Pacific Time

Join Rosemary Cooper and Vanessa Timmer from One Earth, the lead authors of the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy Roadmap for a discussion about the role that cities can play in aligning sharing economy activities with their own objectives, including moving towards sustainability.

The roadmap describes a sustainability filter which we use to analyze shared mobility, spaces, and goods and community sharing, and to take a lighter look at shared food and energy.

• Discover what cities including Montréal, Austin, Vancouver, Portland and Toronto are doing to lead the way and what roles local governments can play in the Sharing Economy.
• Find out if car sharing, co-working spaces, clothing swaps and other Sharing Economy activities reduce our ecological footprints and increase social connection and resilience.
• Explore our analysis of Sharing Economy actors from community innovators to for-profit players such as Airbnb and Uber to the public sector.

Register for the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy Roadmap Webinar

Read the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy report

This is a free and public webinar. We welcome you to invite your colleagues to register as well.

Thank you to the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation for supporting this roadmap and project as part of Cities for People.

Developmental Evaluation (DE) can be used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings.

Join Michael Quinn Patton and Mark Cabaj for a conversation on DE, what it takes to do this work, and the results that can be expected. And get a preview of the case studies, learnings and principles shared in Michael’s new book, Developmental Evaluation Examplars: Principles in Practice.

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“The field has been waiting for a book like this one. A well-balanced, diverse set of authors focus on good examples of DE practice. The book shows how innovative projects and programs require evaluation practices and approaches that honor complexity, flexibility, and systems thinking. It describes with clarity how DE actually happens in complex ecologies and settings across the globe." - Rodney Hopson, PhD, College of Education and Human Development, George Mason University

Speakers

About Michael Quinn Patton

Michael Patton, with more than 45 years experience as an evaluator, is a generalist who uses all kinds of methods, especially mixed methods, and focuses on adapting the design to the situation, intended uses, and intended users to maximize use -- utilization-focused evaluation, the approach he pioneered in the 1970's. He has worked with organizations and programs at the international, national, state, and local levels, and with philanthropic, not-for-profit, private sector, and government programs. He has worked with peoples from many different cultures and perspectives. As a generalist he has worked across the full range of efforts at improving human effectiveness and results, including programs in leadership development, education, human services, the environment, public health, employment, agricultural extension, food systems, human rights, early childhood, arts, criminal justice, anti-poverty programs, transportation, diversity, managing for results, performance indicators, effective governance, and futuring. His recent work has focused on developmental evaluation and principles-driven evaluation, both of which he pioneered, and are based on complexity theory and systems thinking. Michael is also co-author of Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed with Frances Westley and Brenda Zimmerman. 

About Mark Cabaj

Mark Cabaj is an Associate of Tamarack and Vibrant Communities and President of the company From Here to There. Mark’s current focus is on developing practical ways to assist groups to understand, plan and evaluate policies, programs and initiatives that address complex issues. This includes challenges such as neighbourhood renewal, poverty and homelessness, community safety, educational achievement and health. He is particularly focused on expanding the ideas and practice of developmental evaluation, a new approach to evaluation which emphasizes learning and design thinking in emerging and sometimes fast-moving environments.

Start co-operating.

Are you interested in starting a co-operative? Do you work for a co-op or a credit union and want to learn more about the co-op sector? Does the idea of co-operation interest you?

That's why we're here. Come and learn all about the co-op sector, co-operatives, how and why to start one, and how the BCCA can help you as you think of ways to build a co-operative economy.

Learn about co-op business basics.

Learn about the history of co-ops, different kinds of co-ops ranging from consumer co-ops to worker co-ops to nonprofit co-ops at this workshop.

Participants will also explore how to take their idea towards the development of a co-op, including:

• The co-op development path
• Assessing a business idea
• Feasibility and business planning
• The nuts and bolts of starting a co-op
• Support and assistance from the BCCA and the co-op sector

Access co-op development support.

If you are representing a group that is exploring co-operation as a business idea, taking a Co-ops 101 course allows your group to register with the BCCA as an "Emerging Co-op" and access ongoing BCCA support, including access to co-op development experts, ongoing advice, discounted training and education, and more. 

Attend via interactice webinar.

BCCA workshops are offered via online interactive webinar. You can attend from the comfort of your home, your office, or your iPad, anywhere in the world.

Register for the event here

This webinar will feature the work of CleanStart, a non-profit social enterprise providing eco-friendly junk removal and job programs for residents with barriers to employment in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. We will also hear from Exeko, a progressive Montréal based social innovation agency using creativity, art and philosophy to promote social inclusion through cultural and intellectual mediations addressing homelessness and Aboriginal youth among others. 

Discover how CleanStart, once small start-up, is moving to the next phase of expansion through the creation of comprehensive job training programs, social media outreach and flexible employee supports to marginalized individuals facing barriers to employment. Hearabout the significant impacts they have made working with affordable housing and homelessness communities across Vancouver through their social return on investment model.

Learn about Exeko’s idAction Mobile program, a philosophical and cultural caravan that tours the streets of Montréal to engage citizens, in particular those experiencing homelessness. On board are books, newspapers, eyeglasses, art supplies, documentary films and writing kits, all offering the means of civic participation through access to information on current events, while providing a safe space for knowledge exchange, discussion, artistic play and self-discovery.  

Register for the event here

SPEAKERS:

Laura Barreca: Operations Manager, CleanStart, Vancouver (BC)

Nadia Duguay: Co-Founder & Executive Director, Exeko, Montréal (QC)

* This webinar will be delivered in English only.

12:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time (9:00am - 11:00pm, Pacific Time)

Innoweave is pleased to partner with Accelerating Social Impact to offer a National Social Enterprise Feasibility Planning Workshop.

The workshop is designed to help leadership teams of 3-4 (including board members) start to explore a concrete opportunity or idea for creating a social enterprise by:

Assessing the market for their potential product or service Identifying potential customers Developing potential pricing structures
Identifying next steps to become launch-ready The Innoweave Social Enterprise workshop builds on the Innoweave Introduction to Social Enterprise webinar.

Register for the Social Enterprise Feasibility Planning Workshop

Teams may also view this pre-recorded webinar.

Event details:

When: Tuesday, November 17th and Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Participants are required to commit to both days (the workshop content will be spread over these two sessions).

Where: This distance workshop will be hosted via Cisco WebEx. A link to the meeting and workshop documents will be provided to successful applicants.

Deadline: Applications are due by Wednesday, October 28th, 2015. Space is limited. Successful applicants will be notified by Wednesday, November 4th, 2015.

Participating organizations will also be eligible to apply for implementation funding in January 2016 to engage a coach to help them with development following the workshop. To learn more about Innoweave Implementation Funding, click here.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info at innoweave.ca.