The 2016 Gathering will take place:

Friday, October 21, 2016 -- 8:00am - 4:30pm

St John's High School, 401 Church Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The theme for the 2016 Gathering is “Include. Act. Transform.” It is a clear call to action, encouraging us to collaborate and bridge gaps between different groups within our communities as we work to build a more equitable and sustainable society.  

What barriers to participation exist for certain segments of our society? What lessons can be learned from the experience of others?  What is our common vision for the future? How do we get there?

Together, we will work to answer these questions as we continue finding ways to tackle poverty, injustice and environmental degradation through community development.

Alongside this theme, and in light of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee's final report, the 2016 Gathering will also offer a clear focus on reconciliation and indigenous perspectives.  

What does it mean to truly internalize Canada’s colonial past? How can individuals and organizations practice reconciliation in meaningful ways that actually address systemic inequality and lead to meaningful change?

The program for this year’s gathering is starting to take shape and we’ve already confirmed workshops on a wide range of topics including:

• Practicing reconciliation through CED work

• Understanding media relations

• Greening your organization

• Lessons from the Syrian refugee response

• Engaging volunteers for your organization

• Managing and analysing data

• Housing co-ops

• Indigenous co-ops

• Social enterprise development

Stay tuned as we will be announcing our keynote speakers and our full list of workshops in the near future.

Help us spread the word on Facebook and Twitter using  #gath2016.

You can also find out more and join the conversation on the 2016 Gathering Facebook Event Page.

This year the Gathering will be catered by several co-operative and social enterprise restaurants and food suppliers including:

Bodegoes

Organic Planet Workers Co-Op

Lunch Bell Bistro

Farmaeddon Foods

For more information, contact Joseph Wasylycia-Leis at gathering at ccednet-rcdec.ca

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The Gathering is an annual pay-what-you-can event where Manitoba’s community builders connect, learn, and celebrate success. It is open to all from staff of community organizations, to civil servants, funders, students, academics, or anyone interested in community development and community economic development.

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Thank you to all our event sponsors and partners:

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That Gathering is hosted by the Canadian Community  Economic Development Network - Manitoba and planned collectively by over fifteen organizations

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10:00am to 11:00am Eastern Time

Good, affordable housing is a critical first step to successful refugee reception, settlement, and integration. In today’s urban migration context, that means cities are under increasing pressure to provide affordable and dignified housing options. Getting housing right also promotes urban resilience in times of shock or crisis.

In the city of Cleveland, welcoming refugees may also be the solution to the problem of vacant homes in a sagging rust-belt economy. Danielle Drake of US Together will discuss how Cleveland is re-thinking its social housing model for refugees as part of a larger strategy to re-vitalize local neighbourhoods and improve living conditions for all residents.

Fifteen years ago, the city of Münster rejected typical temporary, camp-like refugee housing models and embraced a humanitarian strategy which improves living standards, while helping normailize the settlement experience for everyone, turning strangers into neighbours. Today, that foresight is helping cities like Münster accommodate an unprecedented wave of Syrian refugees to Germany. Jochen Köhnke joins the conversation to share challenges and successes from Münster’s refugee housing model.

Register for Breaking Ground

Speakers:

Danielle Drake, Community Relations Manager, US Together, Cleveland (United States)
Jochen Köhnke, Councillor for Migration and Intercultural Affairs, City of Münster (Germany)

Technical Requirements:

No cost to participate. You will need a computer with internet access and speakers. Pre-test System Requirements. Adobe Connect requires the Flash Player plugin, download version 11.9 or above to run. Unable to attend? Register now and receive an email notification when archived presentations are online. Questions? Contact gdx at ryerson.ca.

11:30am to 12:00pm Eastern Time (Optional pre-webinar group discussion)
12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern TIme (Webinar)

Is your organization interested Collective Impact? Are you considering collaborating with other organizations to change population level outcomes on an issue that is important in your community or region? If so, you may be interested in attending an upcoming Introduction to Collective Impact webinar, on Thursday June 23rd.

LEARN about how a Collective Impact approach can support work across sectors to move the needle on urgent and complex community issues

EXPLORE the types of issues and conditions best suited to a Collective Impact approach, and learn when this approach is not the best fit

HEAR ABOUT lessons and insights from groups and collaboratives working with Collective Impact in BC and beyond

Register for the Introduction to Collective Impact Webinar

In addition to being an open learning opportunity, this webinar is a pre-requisite for collaboratives interested in participating in Collective Impact workshops and coaching to be offered in fall 2016 by BC Healthy Communities and Innoweave.

This session has been scheduled as a "lunch and learn" and we recommend if possible to use this as an opportunity to gather with your partners to learn and engage together. We suggest completing Innoweave's Collective Impact self-assessment and coming together as a group to discuss, prior to participating in the webinar from 12:00-1:30pm (Complete Innoweave's Collective Impact self-assessment).

**We recommend that you and your partners read the following before the webinar commences: Collective Impact, by John Kania and Mark Kramer.

OPPORTUNITIES AFTER THE WEBINAR:

Once you have attended the webinar, if you determine that collective impact is a fit for your issue and community, you can apply to participate in a supported Collective Impact process offered in partnership by BC Healthy Communities and Innoweave.

This process helps groups of different community organizations apply the Collective Impact approach to a shared population-level impact goal. The process includes two workshops staggered over a 4-8 month period, allowing organizations time in between the two sessions to build additional community support, and refine their shared outcomes goals.

Following each workshop, groups may also request Collective Impact coaching support. To access coaching, organizations should be clear on the goals that they hope to achieve with Collective Impact and the assistance that they require to develop their strategy for impact, build their collaborative and get ready to implement. 

Collective Impact Workshop 1 will be offered in fall 2016. This workshop is designed to help teams of leaders from at least 4-5 different community organizations committed to working on a common issue start to:

Articulate and refine population level outcome goals that they wish to achieve;

• Develop a hypothesis of the activities required to begin achieving those outcomes (e.g. a theory of change);
• Identify how they will test (and improve) their theory of change;
• Build a community engagement strategy that ensures key stakeholders and other leaders are part of the change process;
• Develop a 4-6 month strategy to deepen engagement on the issue, and advance activities to test a collective hypothesis.

If you have any questions, please contact Celeste Zimmer at celeste at bchealthycommunities.ca