March 7th, 9:00am - 4:30pm
University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building
Morning and afternoon workshops include:
This event is free and open to all members of the public and university community.
Speakers:
Dr. James Tully, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria
The Big Picture: The Politics of An Economy
Dr. Mark Roseland, Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University
Community Capital: A Sustainable Approach to Community Development
Dr. Helen Haugh, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
There Is Another way: The Social Economy
Mr. Doug Wright, The Co-operators
Another Way of Doing Things: The Co-operative Model
Elevate your programs to a new level of excellence! Don't miss this opportunity to hear leading international and Canadian speakers and practitioners who are at the epicentre of Creating High Impact Business & Community Partnerships.
Download the Forum Program Brochure (pdf) or visit the event registration section of IMagine Canada's store for further program details.
"Doing well by doing good" has matured from cheque book philanthropy to partnerships to an evolving emphasis on impact and tangible social and business outcomes. As the world of business and community partnerships grows in opportunity and complexity, Imagine Canada's Business & Community Partnership Forum is changing with it. Maintain your organization's competitive advantage with Canada's only national forum in which charity and business come together to learn, network, and celebrate.
MARCH 4: Be sure to maximize your Forum experience with our new, optional extra day of in-depth workshops around topics of interest to both companies and causes - Partnership Building and Measurement and Evaluation followed by site visits to innovative Vancouver business and community partnerships.
MARCH 5: The Forum features two streams: one for companies, the other for community. Here we'll explore best and next practices around measurement and evaluation, accountability, signature programs, employee engagement and then bring everyone together to celebrate the best partnerships our country has to offer at the 12th Annual Canadian Business & Community Partnership Awards.
Bradley K. Googins, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Bradley Googins has served as the Center's executive director since 1997 and is the co-author of Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship. Since becoming executive director, he has undertaken a major restructuring of the Center to better serve its corporate membership while pushing the corporate citizenship agenda forward in Fortune 1000 companies...more
Mary Gordon
Founder and President
Roots of Empathy and Seeds of Empathy
Mary Gordon is recognized internationally as an educator, best-selling author, child advocate and parenting expert who has created award-winning programs informed by the power of empathy. In 1996, she founded Roots of Empathy and in 2005, Ms Gordon founded the Seeds of Empathy program. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and an Ashoka Fellow...more
Dr. Michael Hall
Vice President, Research
Imagine Canada
Dr. Hall's work at Imagine Canada focuses on building the body of knowledge about Canada's charitable and nonprofit sector and the ways in which Canadians support one another and their communities. The author of numerous publications regarding nonprofit organizations, he is recognized as a leader in this area in Canada. His many publications include Cornerstones of Community: Highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (pdf); Charitable Fundraising in Canada and Assessing Performance: Evaluation Practices and Perspectives in Canada's Voluntary Sector (pdf)...more
Jason A. Saul
Founder, Managing Director
Mission Measurement, LLC
Mr. Saul is the founder and Managing Director of Mission Measurement, LLC where they help corporations, nonprofits and foundations measure and improve their social impact. Saul teaches performance measurement and benchmarking at the Center for Public/Nonprofit Management, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Saul is also the author of the book Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Manage, Measure and Improve Performance, published in 2004 by Fieldstone Press...more
The Transition approach involves the intentional engagement of local assets in order to build resilient communities: places that are more economically independent, ecologically sound, and socially connected.
In the face of diminishing supplies of fossil fuels, and the parallel depletion and /or compromise of other natural resources that we rely on, we are coming to realize that growth is not sustainable, and that reliance on imports from afar may become an impossibility within just a few years. Far from being in a hopeless situation, we have the ability to begin to respond to some of these challenges now. We can start down the 'transition' path.
Transition Towns are a response that is sweeping the globe and helping communities to start planning now, for tomorrow's challenges. Transition Towns (which were born in the UK) embrace the opportunity to become more self-reliant by supporting local citizens in a variety of working groups based on their interests.
In the UK and some of the US Transition Towns, these groups have focused on increasing local food production, encouraging alternative transportation, engaging youth in stories about their future, energy re- fitting of houses, and education related to building skills that we seem to have forgotten.
Neighbourhoods, villages, and larger communities are embracing the challenge with gusto, as they begin to place people above profits, discover the limits of consumerism, and undertake a local 'energy descent plan': weaning themselves from reliance on fossil fuels and other scarce resources. The results are more independent places, with deeper relationships with the land and each other.
This two-day workshop will be delivered by two North American instructors who have been trained directly by the founders of Transition in the UK. The session will provide you with the knowledge, tools, and skills to move your community to Transition thinking. And doing!
The cost is $240 per person for the two-day session, including lunch, refreshments, and course materials. There are only 24 seats, with the session now half full.
An outline of the course can be viewed here>>
Please email Stacey Corriveau directly for a registration form. And by all means, do forward this notice to anyone who would find this of interest!
For more information on the BC Centre for Social Enterprise, click here.
Stacey Corriveau
BC Centre for Social Enterprise
stacey@centreforsocialenterprise.com
http://www.centreforsocialenterprise.com
Thursday, February 19, 2008
@ 9:30 - 11:00 PST, 11:30 - 1:00 CST, 12:30 - 2:00 EST, 1:30 - 3:00 ATL
Speakers: Kayla Hrynewich, Program Coordinator & Addictions Counsellor with Core Neighbourhood Youth Co-op in Saskatoon and Somkhuun Thongdee, Executive Director, Alberta SengSan Association with the Multicultural Youth Leaders Co-op in Edmonton.
Each speaker will give a brief presentation describing their model of youth mentorship. They will then each answer the question:
If I were to move to another community and wanted to reproduce our model of youth mentorship, these are the 5 key things that would be needed.
Our discussion will provide an opportunity to discuss these models in more detail and for others to share their experiences.
Additional information will be emailed to you closer to the event with the teleconference phone number and code.
Please RSVP to Paul Chamberlain by replying to this email or calling 416.760.2574. Please specify if you are comfortable participating in the tele-learning session in French, English or both languages so we can accommodate everyone.
We will also be asking that you complete a short survey after the session so that we can evaluate and improve the sessions.
Start Date: Immediately
City Green Solutions, the only social enterprise ecoENERGY assessment service provider in British Columbia, is seeking to expand its communications and marketing team. The Energy Efficiency Outreach Assistant will promote the value of energy efficiency upgrades to homes and businesses through a range of activities that will include, but not be limited to:
