Join enpBC and NetImpact for a Live Case Study:
The Beaumont Studios
Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM.
Event participants will learn about a business challenge being faced by the profiled organization, as presented by the Founder or Executive Director. You will then be asked to provide your ideas and recommendations for addressing this challenge.
This event features The Beaumont Studios - an arts community based in a unique space on the edge of Mount Pleasant. The building houses 16 shared artist studios, an art gallery and a multi-purpose event hosting space. Over 45 artists practice their art in our studios as well as a number of instructors that host weekly classes and workshops, and each month the Beaumont Gallery hosts art exhibitions featuring artists from our community and abroad.
Charmaine Carpenter. Jude Kusnierz and Ryan Spong from the Beaumont Studios will present their business challenge as a social enterprise.
To kick things off, we will have a panel consisting of:
- David LePage, Program Manager, enterprising non-profits (ENP)
- Jennifer Johnstone, President & CEO Central City Foundation, previous ED of Ballet BC
- David Duprey, Founder/owner of the Rickshaw Theatre, Narrow Lounge, Rumpus Room
- Martha Rans, non-profit lawyer, Co-founder of Artists' Legal Outreach
We then turn things over to you in a fast-paced, facilitated session to get your input, ideas and recommendations for the Beaumont Studios team!
Doors open at 5:30pm. The event begins promptly at 6pm and ends at 7:30pm.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
CEDEC Small Business Support Network is pleased to invite you to attend the third in a series of online monthly webinars to be held through 2013-2014. These webinars will be reviewing some basic, but often overlooked strategies that can significantly increase the value of our business. Our featured speaker, Aaron Patella, a Bishop’s University Graduate with over 20 years of business experience and has over 1000 hours of practical and theoretical training in leadership and excellence (leading groups, active listening, fixing objectives and action plans, etc.).
Aaron Patella is a Bishop’s University Graduate with over 20 years of business experience and has over 1000 hours of practical and theoretical training in leadership and excellence (leading groups, active listening, fixing objectives and action plans, etc.).
Visit Aaron's "The blog" and LinkedIn profile.
Customer Satisfaction By Designing Satisfied Clients
If you like selling things, which you should in business, you want to make a business that is there for your clients. It takes an understanding of what our customers want and what they need to accomplish.
When we have completely integrated this knowledge into our business model, then we have a business that is set to go gangbusters because we are meeting our customers' expectations.
In this webinar you will learn:
Format:
A group of national organizations are putting their heads together to design a system for measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities. The aim is to move beyond the blunt instruments of low-income cut-off (LICO), low income measure (LIM), and market basket measure (MBM) and find reliable ways to measure financial vulnerability at municipal and neighbourhood scales.
Topics and Panellists
1.Open data and civic engagement:
2.The Why and How of measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities
3.Community Panel: Wellbeing Toronto
4.Using Statistics Canada's survey and administrative data products to measure financial vulnerability
Cost: Free
