With its head office in Ottawa, the Agency for Co-operative Housing administers the operating agreements between Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and more than 500 housing co-operatives. We have regional offices in Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto. This position is located in Vancouver.
Contract Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
The annual Inclusive Leadership Gatherings are the heart-beat and breath of the Inclusive Leadership Co-operative. From June 27 to 29, 2015 Inclusive Leaders from diverse cultures, generations, abilities and places will gather at Cowichan Lake Education Centre, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada for 1, 2, or all 3 days of exploring, sharing and celebrating leadership in inclusive community-building. Join the Inclusive Leadershiup Co-operative for another energizing, inspiring, and relaxed opportunity to explore, share, and celebrate the many ways Inclusive Leaders are transforming communities by embracing social diversity and bio-diversity.
Who is Inclusive Leadership for?If you are wondering whether or not you are part of the Inclusive Leadership Community, you already are. Every single person who values safety, respect, equality and joy has a vital role to play in building welcoming and inclusive communities based on embracing differences as gifts. Inclusive Leadership is for individuals, families, and groups. Government, non-profits, schools, co-operatives, and businesses are invited to send adults and youth. Inter-generational groups of adults, youth and children are encouraged to register. Everyone is welcome. You will meet people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.You will meet educators and other group facilitators; community-builders, activists, artists and administrators; youth, adults, and families; professionals, volunteers, retirees, students and people from many other leadership backgrounds. Bring your whole family and make it into a participatory-education-for-changing-the-world holiday! There will be active child and youth friendly alternatives to choose during workshop sessions, including fabulous opportunities to play, play, play with Inclusive Leaders and extraordinary Child Minders Tara Jordan and Glaucia Desrochers and their children.
Board member Kix Citton explains that the Inclusive Leadership Co-operative hosts this annual gathering because, “We are part of a world-wide movement made up of individuals and groups who care about people and the planet in ways that are life-enriching and life-sustaining. We look forward to learning with and from everyone who attends the gathering.”
Learn with and from co-facilitators Kix Citton, Linda Hill, Amy and Tafadzwa Matamba, Glaucia Desrochers. Christy Tweedy, Trevor Husband, Rob George, Michael Geselbracht, John Scull, Janet Lehde, Janice Milnerwood, Grant Waldman and many more skilled and experienced Inclusive Leaders. If you have participated in a previous Inclusive Leadership event and would like to offer a workshop, please email inclusiveleaders at gmail.com or phone Linda Hill at 250-746-6141 to discuss.
12:00pm - 1:30pm Eastern Time
This is an information webinar for those who are thinking about taking one of the courses through the CoopZone On-line Training Program. This webinar is open to anyone.
Please RSVP to Hazel Corcoran (hazel@canadianworker.coop) by the end of the day on June 14th. You will receive the dial-in information by the start of the day of the call. (If you do not receive it by then, please write again at that time.)
CoopZone offers various levels of training:
All of these on-line courses are designed to fit around a full-time job (a few hours per week). There is a new Course Director, Eric Tusz-King. Experienced co-op developers provide mentoring to students.
"The course is concise, informative and interactive. Mentors and course director are very knowledgeable, skilled, experienced, approachable and helpful. The readings and tools were very useful." ~ Billy Granger, SEED Winnipeg.
"I would absolutely recommend the CoopZone program to anybody interested. The course is pretty amazing in the way that it creates a common community amongst us aspiring co-op developers and several fully established and tremendously experienced ones. The instructors are great, and the mentoring system gives me the chance to have hours of one-on-one time with an expert in my desired field." ~ Joel Ratcliffe, Ontario.
"The Advanced Co-op Developer training has enabled me to connect with other Co-op Developers and a Mentor which allowed me to apply what I am learning directly to the groups and projects I am working on, in real time. I would recommend this program for anyone interested in Co-op Development as we are often working alone or in small teams in communities; the course allows you to feel part of a co-op team!" ~ Amanda Hachey, CEC-NB
12:30pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time
This is an information webinar for those who are thinking about taking one of the courses through the CoopZone On-line Training Program. This webinar is open to anyone.
Please RSVP to Hazel Corcoran (hazel@canadianworker.coop) by the end of the day on June 23rd. You will receive the dial-in information by the start of the day of the call. (If you do not receive it by then, please write again at that time.)
CoopZone offers various levels of training:
All of these on-line courses are designed to fit around a full-time job (a few hours per week). There is a new Course Director, Eric Tusz-King. Experienced co-op developers provide mentoring to students.
"The course is concise, informative and interactive. Mentors and course director are very knowledgeable, skilled, experienced, approachable and helpful. The readings and tools were very useful." ~ Billy Granger, SEED Winnipeg.
"I would absolutely recommend the CoopZone program to anybody interested. The course is pretty amazing in the way that it creates a common community amongst us aspiring co-op developers and several fully established and tremendously experienced ones. The instructors are great, and the mentoring system gives me the chance to have hours of one-on-one time with an expert in my desired field." ~ Joel Ratcliffe, Ontario.
"The Advanced Co-op Developer training has enabled me to connect with other Co-op Developers and a Mentor which allowed me to apply what I am learning directly to the groups and projects I am working on, in real time. I would recommend this program for anyone interested in Co-op Development as we are often working alone or in small teams in communities; the course allows you to feel part of a co-op team!" ~ Amanda Hachey, CEC-NB
Let's face it: Demonstrating impact is critical when making the case for community programs to funders, stakeholders and policy makers.
But it can also be very hard to do. Community organizations tend to find the process of impact measurement complicated and expensive. There is no silver bullet, but strengthening evaluation capacity with a range of strategies, such as Social Return on Investment, can help us improve the effectiveness of what we do and enhance the case for support.
To strengthen the evaluation and impact measurement capacity of our members, CCEDNet has partnered with CanadaMeasures Initiative (CMI) to offer affordable access to a powerful Social Return on Investment platform.
CMI is an project of Social Asset Measurement (SAM) and the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci). It brings together 3ci’s ten plus years of expertise in impact measurement, and SAM’s impact measurement software, the Social Return Intelligence platform (SRI). SRI has been reviewed and accepted by the UK based international SROI Network, and has been funded by the National Research Council of Canada.
Participants in CMI receive educational webinars and are walked through the process of creating their own impact measurement framework. They are then able to access the SRI software to continuously report on their impact.
Regular costs for the CMI program are $2,000 for the first year, and $500 in subsequent years. But in this special offer, CCEDNet members are eligible for a 12%-18% discount. Not a member? Find out more about the leading Canadian movement for inclusive and sustainable community economies, and join us!
If you want to strengthen your evaluation capacity and try out SROI or other outcomes frameworks, CMI might be right for you.
Watch the recording of the informational webinar that was held January 10th.Background Information
3:30pm – 5:30pm
112 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC
Buy Social Canada is excited to announce the opening of our storefront at 112 West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver. This is the very first Buy Social store of its kind, and we would like to celebrate this exciting achievement!
Join us at 112 West Hastings Street for the grand opening on Tuesday, June 23rd 2015. Doors open at 3:30pm. Presentations and speeches will begin at 4:15pm with special guest Honourable Michelle Stilwell the Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation. Meet and network with local social enterprise suppliers and purchasers. Share some drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a tour.
If you have any questions about the grand opening and ribbon cutting please contact Katelyn McDougall, our Information and Services Coordinator, at katelyn at buysocialcanada.ca
Buy Social Canada is a program that has been created to encourage social value purchasing across the community, private and public sectors, and to provide an external social enterprise certification program.
Program Schedule
Doors Open / 3:30pm – 4:00pm
Presentations and Speeches / 4:15pm – 4:30pm
Ribbon Cutting / 4:30pm
Reception to follow
Please RSVP by June 21st.
