1:00PM - 1:30PM Eastern

Join us for a 30-minute webinar to learn more about our online application and Community Incentive program. Find out how your charitable organization can earn funds by helping the families you work with get the Canada Learning Bond! This session is open to everyone from non-profit organizations.

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Webinar Details:

The webinar will take place online at 1 PM EST on February 26, 2015. To register contact us at info at smartsaver.org. You will receive the webinar link in your confirmation email.

About the Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond is a federally-funded education savings grant for children of lower-income families receiving the National Child Benefit Supplement. The Canada Learning Bond offers up to $2,000 in RESP contributions, with no family contribution required, to children born after December 31, 2003. Once an eligible family opens an RESP the Government makes an initial deposit of $500, plus an additional $100 each year until the child reaches the age of 15, up to a maximum of $2,000. To learn more about the Canada Learning Bond visit www.SmartSAVER.org.

About SmartSAVER:

SmartSAVER is a creative marketing initiative involving public, private and community partners that helps lower-income parents become successful savers using Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) and the Canada Learning Bond (CLB). 

Join us for this 45-minute introduction (or refresher) on RESPs and the Canada Learning Bond with a focus on how they can benefit lower-income families. This session will provide a brief overview with time for questions and is geared towards those who work directly with lower-income families. Click here to register

Webinar Details:

The webinar will take place online at 1 PM EST on March 13, 2015. To register contact us at info@smartsaver.org. You will receive the webinar link in your confirmation email.

About the Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond is a federally-funded education savings grant for children of lower-income families receiving the National Child Benefit Supplement. The Canada Learning Bond offers up to $2,000 in RESP contributions, with no family contribution required, to children born after December 31, 2003. Once an eligible family opens an RESP the Government makes an initial deposit of $500, plus an additional $100 each year until the child reaches the age of 15, up to a maximum of $2,000. To learn more about the Canada Learning Bond visit www.SmartSAVER.org.

About SmartSAVER:

SmartSAVER is a creative marketing initiative involving public, private and community partners that helps lower-income parents become successful savers using Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) and the Canada Learning Bond (CLB). 

3pm to 4pm Eastern Time

Heart & Soul Training is a quarterly series of indepth webinars about Orton's barn-raising approach to community development and planning. Each training takes a deep dive into the phases and steps of the method that has transformed rural towns and small cities with broad engagement that uncovers what matters most to residents.

Alece Montez-Griego, Orton Family Foundation director of programs leads an interactive webinar that will give participants insight into what makes Community Heart & Soul a powerful, results-oriented and successful approach to community development and planning. Researched and field tested for more than a decade, Community Heart & Soul increases participation in local decision-making and empowers residents to shape their communities to uphold the unique character of each place based on what matters most to them. This hour-long overview is the first in a series of four online trainings this year.

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12:00PM - 1:00PM Eastern Time

With over 1 million workers in the Ontario nonprofit sector, including contract and part-time, nonprofits play a key role as employers and leaders of social and economic development of communities- including influencing labour market conditions.

Metcalf Foundation Fellow Tom Zizys brings a fresh perspective to labour market issues and the need to shift from the focus on the supply side and what is it that individuals need to get work, to the demand side of how employer practices affect opportunities to access good jobs.

So, how can we collectively build on this to impact labour force trends and good jobs for Ontarians?

Looking at the big picture, the webinar will look at the longer term trends that have profoundly affected Ontario’s labour market, while proposing a number of policy prescriptions to improve employment outcomes for more people.

ONN is pleased to present this webinar as part of a larger discussion on ways to strengthen and support the sector’s labour force. This will no doubt be of interest to both nonprofit employers and organizations across Ontario that support the training and development of people.

Cost:  $30 for ONN Members/ $60 for Nonmembers

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About the presenter

Tom Zizys has worked as a consultant in the public, not-for-profit and international development fields for over 20 years. He has a wide range of experience in numerous subject fields, from social economy to early childhood development, from homelessness to local economic development. For over 15 years he has specialized in employment programs and labour market analysis, particularly for economically marginalized communities. He is an Innovation Fellow of the Metcalf Foundation where his research focus is the changing labour market and the working poor. Internationally he has worked on various poverty reduction projects, and he has carried out assignments in some 20 countries. He has taught public policy, program evaluation, international development and community economic development courses at York and Ryerson universities.

The fact that the economy isn’t working for most of us is finally getting some attention and policy proposals to close loopholes and other stopgap solutions are making the rounds. However, those that study complex systems – natural or human-made – say the same thing: once corrupted, a complex system has an almost impossible time fixing itself. The best way to transition to a truly democratic economy is to find or create safe spaces outside the dominant system where something wholly new can emerge from the ground up. This emergence is BALLE’s theory of change, which has been deeply influenced by the work of Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze.

In this webinar we’ll explore Frieze’s "Two Loops" theory of systems change – in which a new system emerges as the old one is declining – as a framework for a new economy. We’ll discuss where we are in the shift to a new economic model and take a look at the work being done on the ground to fight for rights in the current system while bolstering those who are forging a new path forward.

This webinar will kick off BALLE’s "Year of Illumination" – a monthly series of webinars, videos, articles, and other stories and conversations that will shed light on What Works and help Localist Leaders replicate and build upon proven solutions towards an economy with equity at its core. Join us for this foundational conversation to bring greater context to the role you and your organization play in this process.

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SPEAKERS

Deborah Frieze, Co-Founder, Boston Impact Initiative

James Johnson-Piett, Principal and CEO, Urbane Development

MODERATOR

Christine Ageton, Chief Program Officer, BALLE

The third annual BC Workplace Inclusion Conference is taking place on March 9th-10th, 2015 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

UnTapped helps BC employers address skills shortages through diversifying recruitment and workforce composition. UnTapped reflects the opportunity for BC employers to access skilled talent from candidate pools including persons with disabilities, Aboriginal job-seekers, youth, women, older workers, recent immigrants, and other talent pools that may not have been traditionally targeted.

Beyond the Business Case:

The Conference will provide an exchange of ideas, innovation, successful practices, information and resources, specifically looking at the role workplace diversity and inclusion play as an overall business strategy. Recruitment, Retention, Positive Results.

Attendees will include BC employers representing a wide variety sectors and sizes, industry associations, government, champions in workplace diversity and inclusion, and employment service providers.

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