The Cariboo Regional District is seeking a candidate to fill the position of Regional Economic/Community Development Officer. This position will be situated in Williams Lake, British Columbia, a thriving community with all major amenities. The Regional District is known for its agreeable climate and a vast array of outdoor recreational opportunities.
8:00am - 6:30pm Eastern Time
Sheraton Wall Centre, Pavilion Ballroom
1088 Burrard Street
Around the world social ventures are demonstrating that impact, innovation, and social good can be created through business. Propelling Social Ventures 2015 will bring together social ventures, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy makers and innovators to explore how social ventures are re-imagining business for impact, and how mature businesses are redefining their business models and strategies to incorporate impact into their organizations. Join us and our incredible line up of speakers for thought provoking discussions on how we can redesign business for impact, together.
In Conversation with Janie Hoffman
Founder of Mamma Chia
Janie is the CEO & Founder of Mamma Chia, an organic chia-based food and beverage company based in San Diego, and the category innovator and creator of the first-to-market chia seed beverage. Mamma Chia was awarded Beverage World's "Breakout Brand" for 2014. In 2013, Mamma Chia was awarded Nutritional Outlook's "Best Retail Brand" and in 2012, Janie was honored with BevNET’s “Person of the Year” award. Mamma Chia is a member of 1% For the Planet, founding member of Slow Money, and a Certified B Corporation. The company supports farmers, community groups and organizations that are building healthy, local food systems.
Farah Mohamed - G(irls)20 Innovator Talk with Farah Mohamed
Founder of G(irls)20
A social profit entrepreneur, Farah Mohamed created G(irls)20 and now serves as its CEO. G(irls)20 galvanizes the world's greatest resource – girls and women – and cultivates a new generation of leaders through education, entrepreneurship and global experiences. G(irls)20 also provides advice to G20 Leaders on how to economically engage girls and women to reach growth targets.
11am Eastern Time
Leveraging the cooperative principles to help members understand the cooperative difference and its value is one of the primary focal points of every co-op communicator. Being a cooperative can be a competitive edge when you have loyal members who get what it means to be part of a cooperative. In this session, TCEC presents a case study showing how their communications team incorporated the cooperative principles into their communication efforts.
JuliAnn Graham, Communications Coordinator, Tri-County Electric Cooperative (TCEC)
JuliAnn Graham has been TCEC’s communicator for nearly eight years. Chris Purdy is the cooperative’s vice president of Member Solutions and Leslie Kraich is TCEC’s community and member relations coordinator. Together, they work to ensure TCEC’s members understand the cooperative difference by incorporating the seven cooperative principles into their strategic communications plan and weaving them into everyday communications. Graham is a Certified Cooperative Communicator through the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. In 2014, the TCEC communications team won the Top Rural Electric Co-op Communicator award in the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperative’s annual newsletter contest. In 2013, the cooperative scored an 87 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which was an all-time high for the co-op.
This webinar is designed for any cooperative communicator or leader.
The deadline to register is March 18. To ensure your spot in this webinar fill out the registration form and fax, mail or scan to email with payment to:
Cooperative Communicators Association
174 Crestview Drive, Bellefonte, PA 16823-8516
Fax: 814-355-2452 | Email: registration at communicators.coop
In many parts of the country real and perceived differences divide rural and urban communities. Divisions rooted in competing political priorities, divergent cultural norms, and disparate socio-economic conditions often prevent conversations about shared interests.
The emerging practice of rural-urban cooperation capitalizes on the unique assets of both places to bridge divides, build mutual understanding, and infuse creative energy into community and economic development.
Join the next CommunityMatters® and Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™ event for inspiration on creative urban and rural connections that could happen in your area. FREE!
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Do you enjoy working in the community and breaking new ground in the food security field? The Richmond Food Security Society is looking for you!
Richmond is home to a vibrant food security community, which includes food activists, young farmers, health workers, community developers, and citizenry of all walks of life. The Food Security Society consists of a network of organizations and individuals working towards a more resilient community.
12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time
More organizations are reorienting their strategies toward systems change in recognition of the complexity of the problems they are trying to address. As a result, the traditional ways that philanthropy, government, corporations, and nonprofits have approached evaluation are falling short. It begs the question:
In the recently published practice brief, Evaluating Complexity, FSG's Hallie Preskill and Srik Gopal describe how evaluating complex initiatives in complex environments is inherently different than how evaluation has traditionally been practiced and defined. They outline nine propositions for evaluating complexity building on the ideas and thinking of leading theorists and evaluation practitioners:
Join FSG's Hallie Preskill, Srik Gopal, and Katelyn Mack in conversation with Cris Kutzli, program director at Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and Mona Jhawar, evaluation manager at The California Endowment, to discuss the nine propositions from the recent practice brief, Evaluating Complexity, and learn more about how these funders of social innovation have put these propositions into practice.
This interactive discussion will explore what has made the design and implementation of evaluation different because of the complex environment in which these funders are working. Each foundation will provide an example of how they have evaluated complex initiatives seeking to address complex problems on the issues of urban education and community health.
Hallie Preskill, managing director at FSG, has provided evaluation, organizational learning, and training workshops and services for healthcare, nonprofit, education, foundation, government, and corporate organizations for more than 25 years. As the head of FSG's Strategic Evaluation approach area, Hallie guides clients on planning and conducting evaluations, developing strategic learning and evaluation systems, building shared measurement systems, building evaluation capacity, and facilitating organizational learning over a wide range of topic areas, including healthcare, economic development, youth and education, substance abuse prevention and treatment, community engagement, and human rights. Prior to joining FSG in 2009, Hallie held academic positions at three different universities, where she taught courses in program evaluation, organizational learning, appreciative inquiry, consulting, and training. She received the American Evaluation Association's Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional Practice in 2002 and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. In 2007, she served as President of the American Evaluation Association.
Srik Gopal is a Director who co-leads FSG's Strategic Learning and Evaluation practice. In this role, Srik has worked with a variety of clients including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Academies - Institute of Medicine, and the Grand Rapids Community Foundation. He also led FSG's "next generation evaluation" initiative. Srik came to FSG in 2012 with over twelve years of leadership experience in the social and business sectors. Most recently, in his role as Chief Impact and Learning Officer at New Teacher Center, Srik worked to set up frameworks for impact measurement as well as systems and processes for data-driven learning and improvement. Srik holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross Business School and has completed a Certification in Advanced Evaluation Study from Claremont Graduate University. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Katelyn Mack contributes to FSG's Strategic Learning and Evaluation practice through the design and implementation of innovative approaches to evaluation in the philanthropic sector. While Katelyn conducts evaluations across issue areas, she has deep expertise in US health, working with clients that include the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The California Endowment. She has been involved in evaluating a 5-year, $24 million initiative by the Knight Foundation to support the development of information and media projects in communities across the United States, and has helped numerous foundations develop comprehensive strategies for increasing the effectiveness of learning and evaluation within their organizations. Prior to FSG, Katelyn worked as an analyst on social and economic issues affecting women and families with the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and evaluated health promotion programs in Mexico and Central America. Katelyn holds a Master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Cris Kutzli is a Program Director at Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and serves as Co-Director of the Challenge Scholars initiative. She participated in the design of Challenge Scholars, and now leads its program and evaluation components. Her work with Challenge Scholars includes program planning, strategy development, and partnership building at both the systems and grass-roots level. Cris also advises the Community Foundation's Youth Grant Committee. She is involved in a number of local initiatives related to education, youth development, and college access. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Cris served as a community organizer at a large neighborhood association in Grand Rapids. Cris earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Science Education at Michigan State University.
Mona Jhawar, who has extensive experience as a health policy researcher and analyst, joined The Endowment in February 2008. As a learning and evaluation officer for the foundation, Mona is responsible for working with the foundation's program staff, grantees and external consultants on evaluation design and planning. In addition, she is responsible for overseeing and communicating learning and evaluation activities in support of organizational learning and the achievement of impact, among other duties.
Prior to her appointment with The Endowment, Jhawar served as a policy analyst for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health where she was involved with grant-making processes for local built environment projects. Mona has led a number of workshops at the national and regional levels, and has been a published researcher for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She has also been published in the American Journal of Public Health. Mona earned her B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Davis, and her M.P.H. from UCLA.
