10:00am to 11:00am Eastern Time

Frank Cetera will speak to his hands-on experience working with cooperatives and the various network and resource organizations that exist to support them plus give a summary of legislation recently passed or in process for facilitating employee ownership development in NY State. Frank will provide lessons learned as an advisor to help you better prepare for the conversations and issues involved in advising on this topic.

Register for Employee Ownership Ecosystem

Pathways to Ownership is a no cost, five section webinar series that will give you the practical information you need to understand employee ownership options, so you can start-up or convert an existing business into one of many employee ownership models!

12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

In this webinar, Peter Block will speak to the concept of a neighbourly economy. This would include building ‘Abundant Community’ in neighbourhoods, as a viable alternative to the consumer-driven economic system that currently exists, as we strive to attain positive health outcomes, better distributed wealth, and engage children, seniors and neighbours in creating an educating neighbourhood. To do this, we must address social development and economic development as one and the same issue, rather than in silos. Join us as Peter offers insights on how we can create self-sustaining structures in our local communities - that reveal and mobilize existing gifts - to create more supportive social and economic fabric for prosperity.

Register for Creating Abundant Community in Neighbourhoods

Speaker

Peter Block is an author and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills outlined in his books. He is the author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Answer to How Is Yes, Community, and co-author of The Abundant Community, and An Other Kingdom. Peter is part of the Economics of Compassion Initiative of Greater Cincinnati and is a member of his local neighbourhood council. He serves on the boards of Elementz, an urban arts centre, and LivePerson, a provider of online engagement solutions. His work is in the restoration of the common good and creating a world that reclaims our humanity from the onslaught of modernism.

September 13 - 9:00am to 3:00pm
Trades Atrium
Kelowna Campus, Okanagan College

September 14 - 9:00am to 3:00pm
Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence
Penticton Campus, Okanagan College

Okanagan College and the Global Empowerment Coalition of the Central Okanagan have partnered with the Global Climate Action Summit to host an affiliate event during the Summit. 

Learn more and register for Building on Progress

With a focus on two of the Summit’s themes of healthy energy systems and sustainable communities, this Affiliate event will demonstrate progress by showcasing local projects addressing sustainable energy, building, and infrastructure.  

The event will include an ongoing expo with exhibits from local businesses and organizations helping to achieve climate progress and building toward a more sustainable future.  The event will be open to the public and the press.

Healthy Energy Systems

The Community Energy Association will speak to their activities in community and corporate energy and emissions plans, energy efficient new and retrofitted buildings, support with renewable energy projects, and implementing electric vehicle charging stations.  Fortis BC will address rebates and support for energy efficient building construction and renovations, and renewable energy (solar and renewable natural gas).  

Sustainable Communities

The theme of sustainable communities will address the intersection between local and global initiatives, especially opportunities for coordination.  Participants will focus on building, infrastructure, and planning. 

9:00am to 4:30pm
Groundswell Clubhouse
268 Keefer Street, Unit #421

Create your own fulfilling livelihood.

The Groundswell programs, condensed into 1 day!

Groundswell is an alternative business school for aspiring social entrepreneurs. During the program journey, participants reconnect with themselves and tap into the best they have to offer the world, turning their skills and aspirations into fulfilling, thriving livelihoods. They learn in tight knit cohorts of creative folks, collaboratively building small businesses and social ventures of their own.

Register for Groundswell in a Day

Groundswell's suite of programs run from 1 to 5 months in length, but this year we are happy to introduce the first-ever ‘Groundswell in a Day’. Here, the most essential parts of the programs will be distilled into an unforgettable one-day Groundswell experience.

In this day, you will:

• Explore your inner entrepreneur and fire up your confidence.
• Learn and apply lean startup tools and techniques to test your ideas and help make them happen in the real world.
• Unpeel your aspirations to the core and discover a widely applicable marketing ethos that connects the people you want to your idea and doesn’t feel used car salesman-esque!
• Connect with Groundswell alumni who have changed their life by finding and training their entrepreneurial muscle (and strengthen your own - literally and figuratively!).
• Start relationships with likeminded people over a shared potluck lunch.
• Meet 2018-19 Groundswell program participants and determine if it might be a good fit for you too!

Are you an aspiring social entrepreneur who wants to find your role in making the world a better place? This one-day Groundswell experience will kick off your journey.

Bring with you:

• A printed (hard copy!) photo of yourselves when you were a little kid or toddler.
• A dish to share for the community potluck lunch.
• A notebook and pen.
• Comfortable clothing you can move around in.
• Open ears, eyes, heart, and a willingness to jump into something new!
• Accessibility
• The Groundswell Clubhouse is wheelchair accessible, with accessible, gender neutral washrooms.