Youth Agencies Alliance (YAA) is looking for a motivated and community-minded Evaluation Coordinator.
YAA is a network of 18 youth serving agencies in Winnipeg which aims to strengthen and enhance the capacity of its member agencies by improving and setting best practice standards for youth programming.
9:00am to 12:00pm Central Time
United Way of Winnipeg Learning Centre
1st floor, 580 Main St.
Price: CCEDNet Members $25 | Non-members $75
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Thinking of offering some new programs this year, but unsure where to start? Want to refresh or improve your existing programming? Learn how to focus your efforts on developing and delivering programs that will have the greatest impact, given your target audience and your time and resources.
In this three-hour workshop, you’ll be shown a process that can help you plan and design focused, engaging, and effective programming. You'll be shown how to consider your key stakeholders, do a reality-check exercise, and then get creative with programming ideas.
Margerit Roger, M.Ed. has designed and delivered a wide range of adult education and teacher training programs, including online and classroom-based instruction for industry, government, post-secondary institutions and labour. She approaches program planning as a strategic process, and so looks for programming opportunities that result in personal and collective change.
Contact jdrabble at ccednet-rcdec.ca for more information.
12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time
Too often evaluation is a mysterious noise. We can’t discern a beat we can tap our feet to. The melody we seek is elusive. From a poverty reduction perspective, we are inundated with the voices of our clients, funders, donors, colleagues, governments, business leaders, and labour counterparts. Reducing or ending poverty is the music we want to create and listen to, but how can we lessen the noise that envelopes us and increase our capacity to make this music together?
On October 14th, join Mark Holmgren and Mark Cabaj as they discuss this emerging innovation about a Game-Changer approach to poverty reduction strategy and evaluation and share your thoughts as well. Topics covered will include:
Read Mark Holmgren's brand new paper:
Sometimes to Hear the Music you have to Turn Down the Noise
Mark Holmgren joined Tamarack in January 2016 to lead its Vibrant Communities initiative and sits on Tamarack’s team of Directors. His background includes providing executive leadership to two Edmonton-based, inner city human service agencies focused on addressing poverty and homelessness; as well as providing consultation to a number of groups on issues relating to social housing development, organizational change, strategy development and leadership. Most recently Mark served as CEO of Bissell Centre (www.BissellCentre.org) where he led a team of 130 staff delivering Housing First services, assertive street outreach, family and children services, and programs in the areas of mental health, addictions, homelessness prevention, FASD interventions, and employment services.
Known for his big picture view and his ability to work on the ground, Mark has a long history of leading and contributing to social innovations that benefit low income people. Examples include leading the collaborative design of the Community Bridge (homelessness prevention); developing a multi-purpose centre with housing attached for inner city seniors; leading the development of three social enterprises; and, developing innovative approaches to employing marginalized populations.
Mark Cabaj has spent twenty-five years as a social change practitioner, policy maker, funder and consultant in Canada, the USA and Europe. He is a former Vice President of Tamarack, and was the Executive Director of Vibrant Communities Canada - one of the country’s first and largest Collective Impact Initiatives.
Mark is now President of Here to There Consulting Inc. currently focusing on developing practical ways to understand, plan and evaluate efforts to tackle complex issues (e.g. neighborhood renewal, poverty, community safety, environmental sustainability). This includes playing a strong role in building the practice of development evaluation - using evaluation to inform the work of social innovators working in fast moving contexts - as well as practical methods for social innovation, systems change and collaborative action.
How has Scotland become a global leader in social enterprise? What can Canada learn from the vibrant landscape of 5,000+ social enterprises in that country?
In early September, a pan-Canadian group of social enterprise stakeholders visited Scotland to tour the landscape. Hosted by Community Enterprise in Scotland, the largest third sector business support provider in Scotland, we met with government representatives, intermediaries, and a diverse mix of social enterprises.
This webinar presented key findings from the tour and shared reflections for the continued evolution of the social enterprise landscape in Canada.
David LePage, Principal with Accelerating Social Impact CCC, Ltd (ASI)
ASI CCC was created to serve and promote the emerging blended value business and social finance sectors. David works as a consultant, trainer and advisor with a cross section of social enterprises, social purpose businesses and social impact investors. He is a founder of Buy Social Canada, an initiative to promote social purchasing and social enterprise certification.
David is the Chair of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada. He serves as a Program Adjunct to the Sandermoen School of Business MBA in Social Enterprise Leadership. He is a member of the Social Enterprise World Forum Steering Group, the Canadian CED Network's Policy Council, Imagine Canada’s Advisory Committee, and the BC Partners for Social Impact. He is also a Board member of the Vancouver Farmer's Market and a Board member of Ethelo Decisions. David is the former Team Manager of enp-BC and played a lead role in the development of enp-Canada.
Nabeel Ahmed, Network Coordinator for Social Enterprise Toronto
Nabeel is the Network Coordinator for Social Enterprise Toronto. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek as part of a fellowship in microfinance and microenterprise with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. He was also the Managing Editor of SocialFinance.ca, where his keen eye and deep knowledge of the field aided him in supporting the conversation around social finance and impact investing in Canada.
This fall Nabeel returned to school to complate a Master of Environmental Studies, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning with York University.
Darcy Penner, Social Enterprise Policy & Program Manager with the Canadian CED Network
Darcy has been working in community economic development since graduating from the University of Winnipeg with a BA (Honours) degree in Politics. Starting at CCEDNet in 2013, his role has seen him work with member-organizations to pursue a broad policy agenda through workshops, presentations, budget submissions, policy papers and community-organizing, while specializing in supportive social enterprise policy and research – including coordinating the Manitoba Social Enterprise Sector Survey and the Manitoba Social Enterprise Strategy being co-created with the Province of Manitoba. Darcy was also a contributing author to the Alternative Municipal Budget for CCEDNet-Manitoba.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Presentations start at 7:00pm
Join in the fun on October 3rd at the Manitoba Museum for an evening of fast paced presentations exploring sustainability in our world. 7 presenters will present 20 slides for 20 seconds each. After stay for cocktails and appetizers over conversation in the science gallery.
MC: Trevor Dineen - CBC host
Danielle Mondor - FortWhyte Farms
Art Ladd - Building Urban Industries for Local Development
Chris & Lindsay - Beeproject Apiaries
Shereen Denetto - Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba
Kalynn Spain - Small Farms Manitoba
Janelle Delorme - Development and Peace
Sistema Winnipeg - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
#GETSUSTAINABLE
Twitter: @sustainable_mb
Facebook: /sustainablemb
Instagram: @sustainablemb
5:30pm to 7:30pm Eastern Time
To be followed on Twitter : #ESS #LeadingGroupSSE
This high-level event is organized by France on behalf of the International Leading Group on Social and Solidarity Economy (ILGSSE) and coordinated by the association The Mont-Blanc Meetings (MBM) – International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs as permanent secretariat.
In view of the Habitat III Conference, this event will gather high profile actors to promote an economy that reconciles environmental, social and economic efficiency, providing multiple solutions coherent with an overall goal of sustainable development.
How can local public policies support SSE’s development?
How does SSE make it possible to build sustainable cities and human settlements and to provide a framework of urban inclusion?
How does SSE mobilize and generate resources revealing the territorial development potentials?
"SSE: key sector for a sustainable urban development"
