12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time

Innoweave is pleased to partner with Accelerating Social Impact to offer a National Social Enterprise Feasibility Planning Workshop.

The workshop is designed to help leadership teams of 3-4 (including board members) start to explore a concrete opportunity or idea for creating a social enterprise by:

• Assessing the market for their potential product or service
• Identifying potential customers
• Developing potential pricing structures
• Identifying next steps to become launch-ready

Register for the National Social Enterprise Feasibility Planning Workshop

The Innoweave Social Enterprise workshop builds on the Innoweave Introduction to Social Enterprise webinar. Teams may also view this pre-recorded webinar if they were unable to participate on October 3rd, 2016.

Event details:

• When: Tuesday, November 22nd and Tuesday, December 6th, 2016, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET (9:00 am - 11:00 pm PT). Participants are required to commit to both days (the workshop content will be spread over these two sessions).
• Where: This distance workshop will be hosted via Cisco WebEx. A link to the meeting and workshop documents will be provided to successful applicants.
• Deadline: Applications are due by October 25th, 2016. Space is limited. Successful applicants will be notified by November 1st, 2016.
• Cost: Free

Teams approved to participate in the workshop will be asked to meet and complete a brief pre-workshop activity to help prepare for the workshop.

Participating organizations will also be eligible to apply for implementation funding in January 2017 to engage a coach to help them with development following the workshop. Learn more about Innoweave Implementation Funding

If you have any questions, please contact us at info at innoweave.ca.

10:00am Eastern Time

Join longtime CCEDNet member Shaun Loney for the launch of his new book An Army of Problem Solvers.

First Nations reconciliation has to include rebuilding local economies. Problem solvers such as social enterprises, social entrepreneurs and the small farm movement are demonstrating we can tackle society's most stubborn problems affordably. How do we reinvent government to make it all happen?

Learn more about An Army of Problem Solvers

About the Author

Shaun Loney, a longtime member of the Canadian CED Network, is an Ashoka Fellow (first in Canadian Prairies) and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year (2014). He has co-founded and mentored 11 social enterprises including BUILD Inc (2011 Scotia Bank EcoLiving Green Business of the year and 2013 Manitoba Apprenticeship Employer of the Year). Shaun was Director of Energy Policy for the Government of Manitoba (2002-2008 and political advisor to Gary Doer's NDP (1997-2002).

Hosted by the Rural Development Institute

www.brandonu.ca/rdi

6:00 to 9:00 pm (TBC)
Centre for Trades Innovation and Education
Camosun College

Tickets are now available for the Social Enterprise Catalyst (seCatalyst) Gala, a high-energy 'Dragon's Den- style' pitch competition that will award one organization with prizing of up to $50,000. Vancouver Island social enterprises will be centre stage on November 24th at the Centre for Trades Innovation and Education, Camosun College.

Register for seCatalyst 2016

Social Enterprise Catalyst accelerates and celebrates Vancouver Island's social enterprise economy. A social enterprise is defined as an organization that uses business strategies to maximize its social impact. The three enterprise finalists – the James Bay Community Project Community Closet, Cowichan Green Community Incubator Seed Farm and Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association's Jane James Tack Shop were selected from numerous applicants across Vancouver Island and highlight the diversity of social enterprises in local communities.

The high-energy seCatalyst Gala, a 'Dragon's Den-style' pitch competition, will see the enterprise finalists present in front of a live audience and a panel of expert judges. The judges will provide candid 'Dragon worthy' feedback and then decide how to divide up the 'winnings'. The social enterprise tack shop, thrift store and seed farm will pitch their business challenges on-stage for the chance to win $50,000 in combined cash and business development services. Each social enterprise will work with a business coach before the event to hone their pitch.

Keynote Speaker

This year’s keynote presenter is Shaun Loney, an Ashoka Fellow (first in Canadian Prairies) and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2014). Shaun has co-founded and mentored 11 social enterprises, including BUILD Inc. (2011 Scotia Bank EcoLiving Green Business of the Year). BUILD Inc. has lowered utility bills for over 15,000 low income households through insulating, high efficiency furnace installations and water retrofits. AKI Energy provides business development and training in geothermal energy to First Nations so that they can start their own social enterprises. Aki has already installed $6 million in geothermal energy with First Nations in Manitoba.

Learn more about seCatalyst

Media contact: 
Kristi Rivait - Spokesperson
krivait at scalecollaborative.ca 
250.858.4406

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The AMP (Buzzer: #9050)
90 - 425 Carrall Street

Join Simon Fraser's CED Certificate Program at the AMP for a case study of a local CED initiative. Alumni Alisha Maxfield will field questions about her work in Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) with the Community Economic Development Strategic Action Committee.

Register for the CED Case Study + Social with Alisha Maxfield

There will be food and drinks and a chance to connect with the 2016/17 SFU CED cohort, alumni and instructors while hearing about CED in action.

Applications are still open for the October 2016 to May 2017 program. Learn more about the SFU CED Certificate Program

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A New Economy is a film that explores what would happen if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch, as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in an economy previously dominated by profits and big business.

Register for the A New Economy premiere

The Borealis String Quartet (featured in the film) will be playing in the theatre if you want to pop in earlier than 7:00 pm to hear them play!

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and special guests about the film, the new economy movement and how we might look at doing things differently.

For more information about the film, visit www.aneweconomy.ca.

This screening is presented by Credit Unions of BC. Proceeds from the ticket sales will go to Sole Food Street Farms.

You're encouraged to cycle, transit or carshare to get to the Rio! Modo is offering new members a $50 driving credit. Learn more.