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Learn how community foundations are building community wealth

This webinar will present and discuss the new report from the Democracy Collaborative, "A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community foundations deploying all resources to build community wealth."

The webinar will highlight the best practices and lessons learned by leading community foundations, and provide a framework for audience members who want to better use their community foundation's institutional and financial resources to build community wealth.

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In the report, Marjorie Kelly and Violeta Duncan explore how community foundations across the country are embracing a new mission as key local anchors, catalyzing transformative community economic development and mission-focused investment.

Profiling 30 cutting-edge community foundations—the "Innovative 30"—the report offers an exciting snapshot of an emerging trend, one driven both by the need in communities across the country for new thinking about seemingly intractable economic problems, and by the need for community foundations to assert their uniquely place-based capacity to convene local stakeholders and align local resources in an era of growing competition for donor-advised funds from national foundations linked to commercial banks and investment houses.

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In coversation with:

• Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects, The Democracy Collaborative
• Violeta Duncan, Community Development Associate, The Democracy Collaborative
• Sandy Wiggins, Principal, Consilience, LLC; Chair, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); and Senior Advisor, RSF Social Finance
• Patrick Horvath, Director of Economic Opportunity, Director of Strengthening Neighborhoods, The Denver Foundation

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The purpose of the press conference is to announce the results of a recent economic impact study on social enterprises in New Brunswick and to explore the opportunities emerging in our province to drive economic growth through a digital society, open government, mentorship, and the creation of new pools of social capital.

RSVP: Wendy Keats, Executive Director, Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick, (506) 227-9607, info at cecnb.ca

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About the Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick (CECNB): CECNB is a community economic development organization with a mission to support the growth
and development of co-operatives, credit unions and other social enterprises. It offers a
wide variety of technical advisory services, training, and resources to help with start-up,
growth and expansion.

About the Pond-Deshpande Centre: The Pond-Deshpande Centre at UNB works within the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to create learning & mentorship
opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs and serves as a resource for new entrepreneurs to help translate their ideas into companies, products or services.

12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

The role of the nonprofit sector, government and the private sector are rapidly changing. When gaps in our social fabric open up, nonprofits could lose their footing- or seize the moment. Learn about strategies to strengthen communities in crisis and what role the nonprofit sector could play in the future of Canada.

We’re excited to present this webinar with Dr. Alex Himelfarb, co-editor of “Tax is not a Four-Letter Word” and Director Emeritus of York University’s Glendon School of Public & International Affairs.

Cost: $30 for ONN Members/ $60 for Nonmembers
Presenter: Dr. Alex Himelfarb, Director Emeritus, York University’s Glendon School of Public & International Affairs

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About the presenter

A Professor of Sociology, Dr. Himelfarb joined the Public Service in 1981 including as Executive Director of the National Parole Board; Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage, and as Clerk of the Privy Council serving three Prime Ministers, until he was nominated as Ambassador to the Italian Republic and High Commissioner to the Republic of Malta.

Dr. Himelfarb also leads the Centre for Global Challenges and serves on many Boards including Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Trudeau Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund.

12:00pm ET

Featuring Hildy Gottlieb

Hildy will reflect on questions that bring out the best in people, organizations and communities. Hildy Gottlieb, co-founder of Creating the Future, has been called "the most innovative and practical thinker in our sector." Her book, The Pollyanna Principles: Reinventing “Nonprofit Organizations” to Create the Future of Our World, details her groundbreaking approach to aiming the work of the Community Benefit Sector at its highest potential - creating the future of our world. Read more >>

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Rural Community Development Webinars

The Rural Ontario Institute invites you to learn from a number of local and international ‘gurus’ of rural community development as they reflect on years of practice and emerging trends in community-led local development work. The Guru Sessions bring five thought leaders from Canada and around the world will share wisdom on the state of community development practice – where its been, where its going, emerging trends and perhaps some worrisome issues CD practitioners should  be wary of.

12:00pm - 1:30pm Eastern Time

Croatan Institute has been supporting rural value chains seeking funding to build and keep wealth local through the WealthWorks development approach, which aims to simultaneously advance a region's overall prosperity and self-reliance, strengthen existing and emerging sectors, and increase jobs and incomes for lower-income residents and firms. Join us as we discuss how crowdfunding provides a way to support the kinds of businesses which can lead to the creation of the New Economy, and how start-ups be supported by small-scale, low-risk gifts or investments.

In this webinar, we will give an overview of the Wealthworks approach to local and regional economic development, and within the spectrum of financing available for new businesses, we will introduce how online crowdfunding can fill the gap of funding in early-stage ventures, and essentially be the new form of New Economy "barn-raising" we need to support this work. For questions and to register for the webinar, please email kristin@croataninstitute.org.

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Register online or by sending an email to kristin@croataninstitute.org.

Innoweave is pleased to partner with enp Canada to offer a web-based Social Enterprise workshop this Fall. 

The workshop is designed to help leadership teams of 4-5 (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

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Event details:

To apply for this workshop:

• Complete the Social Enterprise Self-Assessment; you will be asked to include your results code in your application.
• Click here (or on "Apply", above) and follow the instructions to create an application. Prior to creating an application, you will need to create an account and log in. Once you are logged in, start a new submission under "Innoweave Applications" and choose Social Enterprise workshop.
• Complete the application in full and please remember to click "Submit Application" when you are done. Only one application form per team is required.