You're invited to a workshop on the best selling book, Community Conversations

1. Explore how communities are leading powerful conversations for change

2. Learn to host strategic conversations and attract the right leadership

3. Advance your community's agenda with innovative mobilization techniques

4. Embrace the power of citizen engagement and multi-sector collaboration

This Workshop is for those who...

• Desire new ways to lead, engage and transform your community
• Work on issues such as community engagement, health and well-being, poverty reduction,local government, community sustainability, neighbourhood renewal, crime prevention, youth development, citizen engagement, local food systems and other collaborative ideas
• Manage or work within a collaborative team
• Are contemplating the start-up or renewal of a collaborative initiative
• Are a key supporter of community engagement and collaboration including NGOs, businesses; funders and national, provincial or local government

It will be highly interactive and practical and is full of informative and inspiring examples of conversations that built collaboration and sparked community change.

Learn how to:

• Select the right people for your conversations
• Host four different kinds of conversations (techniques)
• Engage your entire community
• Collaborate strategically with key stakeholders
• Mobilize a multi sector collaboration

Workshop cost & payment options

The workshop fee is $249 (inc HST) and includes registration, workshop handouts and lunch, as well as a copy of Paul Born's best selling book, Community Conversations.

You're invited to a workshop on the best selling book, Community Conversations

1. Explore how communities are leading powerful conversations for change

2. Learn to host strategic conversations and attract the right leadership

3. Advance your community's agenda with innovative mobilization techniques

4. Embrace the power of citizen engagement and multi-sector collaboration

This Workshop is for those who...

• Desire new ways to lead, engage and transform your community
• Work on issues such as community engagement, health and well-being, poverty reduction,local government, community sustainability, neighbourhood renewal, crime prevention, youth development, citizen engagement, local food systems and other collaborative ideas
• Manage or work within a collaborative team
• Are contemplating the start-up or renewal of a collaborative initiative
• Are a key supporter of community engagement and collaboration including NGOs, businesses; funders and national, provincial or local government

It will be highly interactive and practical and is full of informative and inspiring examples of conversations that built collaboration and sparked community change.

Learn how to:

• Select the right people for your conversations
• Host four different kinds of conversations (techniques)
• Engage your entire community
• Collaborate strategically with key stakeholders
• Mobilize a multi sector collaboration

Workshop cost & payment options

The workshop fee is $249 (inc HST) and includes registration, workshop handouts and lunch, as well as a copy of Paul Born's best selling book, Community Conversations.

The Canadian CED Network, together with their member organizations in BC are working together to bring everyone interested in community economic development in BC together to learn, share, network and celebrate success. This event will take place on March 3rd & 4th in Vancouver at W2 Storyeum. The event will launch with guided visits to projects and initiatives in the downtown eastside that ...demonstrate successful applications of CED principles followed by a full-day of workshops and dialogue.

Community Economic Development (CED) is action by people to create economic opportunities and to enhance social conditions in their communities, with a special emphasis on those who are most disadvantaged. CED is a strategy to create community-based solutions to challenges that result from substantial disruption of the economic base and increased isolation. This event will focus on the current issues that face our communities and how building cross-sectoral relationships, organizations and leaders can confront these challenges using the CED approach.

This event will be welcoming and inclusive to all communities throughout BC, building capacity in those with limited background and harnessing the knowledge of those who have been doing this work for years. This event will be a bridging of sectors, bridging of knowledge and a bridging of experience so we can cultivate our commitment to a sustainable and just future for all communities in BC.

Come join us for two days of intensive learning, rich dialogue and meaningful relationship building. Be prepared to walk away with wisdom and inspiration to do great work in your community.

Please register online at:
http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1323&EID=8671

For more information click here

Why Cities? Why Poverty?

Series: Vibrant Communities Seminar Series

Speakers: Paul Born, Brock Carlton

Location: via conference call (FREE)

Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 11:55am, Eastern

About the Seminar:

The first call in the Canada's Cities Reducing Poverty series will feature Brock Carlton, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities (FCM). Mr. Carlton will discuss Mending Canada's Frayed Social Safety Net: The role of municipal governments - a recent report exploring poverty, income inequality and the concept of social infrastructure. There is a growing need for municipal social services, made even more urgent by the recent recession and the federal and provincial retreat from traditional social supports, which has shifted the burden to municipal governments. The report introduces the concept of social infrastructure, the support system provided by municipal governments and made up of direct social services, such as affordable housing, emergency shelters and subsidized childcare, as well as public services like transit, recreation and libraries. Social infrastructure is particularly important to vulnerable people on limited incomes, especially during a recession. The report finds that while the need for these services has increased, investments have not kept up.

An evening of learning and networking - Financial Tools

Featuring:

• Rebecca Pearson - Investment Manager, Vancity Community Capital
• Emily Beam - General Manager, Street Youth Job Action

Cost: $15 per person.

Financial Tools Event Desciption:

Financial statements? Financial Projections? Investments? Does your organization use them? Do you need them? Come out for an enp evening of networking and answers! Join Rebecca Pearson (Investment Manager, Vancity Community Capital) and Emily Beam (General Manager, Street Youth Job Action) as they go over some basic terminology and examine useful and important financial requirements.

REGISTER HERE

 
Other Enp Learning/Networking Events:

And in case you're interested, here's information on our February 16 and March 16 Learning Event Mixers too:

January 19 – Legal Issues

Are you a charity or a non-profit? Do you know the difference? Are you allowed to be running a business??...and make profit? Come out for an enp evening of networking and answers! Join Margaret Mason and Michael Blatchford (Bull Housser & Tupper LLP) as they put into context the current legal issues surrounding nonprofits and social enterprises, while discussing what types of incorporation structures are currently legal, in use and in discussion.

Do you tweet? Are you on Facebook? Is your organization? Social media and web tools are all the rage these days. How can these tools help social enterprise operators actually run your organization? Come out for an enp evening of networking and answers! Join Steve Williams (Director Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP) and Lauren Bacon (Partner, Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, Inc.) as they discuss linking online strategies to your day-to-day operations.

NOTE: Sign up for the Jan. 19 and Feb. 16 events at $15 each and you can then register for the March 16 event for free!. Sign up for each event individually if you want, paying $15 for the first two and then $0 for the third, or click here to sign up for all three in one go!

If you want to sign up for all three events at the same time, instead of individually, click here.