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Executive Director

Urban Matters is actively seeking an Executive Director for the Aboriginal Social Enterprise (ASE) Program. This once-in-a-lifetime role is for a very special person. If you’re passionate, unafraid of risk, flexible and care deeply about people and making the world a better place, then we should talk. 

WHAT IS THE ASE PROGRAM?

The Aboriginal Social Enterprise Program (ASE) is a soon-to-launch program that’s all about supporting the entrepreneurial spark in Aboriginal communities throughout B.C.  

Deadline: 
8 Jul 2016

Buy Social Canada Webinar

Buy Social Canada1pm to 2 pm Eastern Time

Join Buy Social Canada May 25th to hear the key lessons from Canada's Social Procurement leaders and to learn about how governments at all levels are working to better leverage taxpayer funded contracts to stimulate economic development and to achieve positive, targeted, social impacts.

Hosted by: David LePage, Buy Social Canada

Presentation by: Social Procurement Advisor Sandra Hamilton, author of Social Procurement Frameworks in both British Columbia & Alberta.

Register for the Buy Social Canada Webinar

With Contributions from:

  • Wayne Chu, City of Toronto
  • Councillor Jesse Ketler, from the Village of Cumberland 
  • Canada’s first Buy Social Canada certified municipality 
  • and more...

This is an opportunity to explore the changing face of public procurement in Canada, to expand your knowledge and to receive answers to questions from Canada's leading Social Procurement professionals.

SOURCE: Buy Social Canada

Marine Economic Development Coordinator

The Secretariat of the Haida Nation is seeking an energetic person with proven expertise in economic development to join the Haida Oceans Technical Team, a small group of professionals, located in both Skidegate and Massett, Haida Gwaii, BC. The Marine Economic Development Coordinator will assist in implementing a Haida Gwaii Marine Plan that has been jointly developed by the Haida Nation and the Province of BC. This is a full time position that reports to the Marine Planning Manager and will periodically take direction from a Provincial counterpart.

Deadline: 
6 May 2016

Buy Social Canada Book Launch: Good Planets are Hard to Buy

Good Planets are Hard to Buy4:30pm to 6:30pm
Groundswell Cafe & Learning Space
566 Powell Street 

Buy Social Canada invites you to Larry Berglund’s new book launch: “Good Planets Are Hard to Buy”

Join Buy Social Canada for a glass of wine, a snack and a discussion about social purchasing!

Good Planets are Hard to Buy is Larry’s step-by-step guidebook to sustainability that gives you the Why arguments for those in your organization who are resistant, the Who to know about and get involved and the How to make it happen and keep making it happen.

This book is not just suggesting we revolutionize business; it shows you how to do it.

Vive le planet! Vive le book! Because Good Planets really Are Hard to Buy

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