BUILD is a non-profit social enterprise and on-the-job training program.
We require the services of an experienced Painting Supervisor who will be responsible for training and supervising individuals who face multiple barriers to employment. Six month term with possible extention.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern Time
The complex environmental challenges we face today require us to look critically at how we might transform our economies to reduce pollution, use less land, and regrow natural spaces. As a result green jobs are increasingly the centre of economic development conversations. Community economic development (CED) is a strategy that can be used to help ensure that the benefits of a green economy are shared with those that are so often left out of the mainstream economy.
This webinar features two organizations that have taken a CED approach to finding green solutions for affordable housing while also developing local leadership and employment opportunities. Building Urban Industries for Local Development (BUILD) is a social enterprise in Winnipeg providing trades-based training for people with limited formal labour market experience. Work that trainees undertake includes retrofitting homes with insulation and high-efficiency toilets as well as water-and-energy-saving devices. People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo) is a local membership-based community organization fighting to make affordable housing a reality on Buffalo’s West Side. PUSH Buffalo has been active in reclaiming empty homes for redevelopment as low-income housing and in the process is helping to develop community leaders to maintain local control of the redevelopments.
Aaron Bartley, Executive Director and co-founder of PUSH Buffalo
Aaron is a Buffalo native and proud product of the Buffalo Public School System. Over the years, Aaron has organized labor and student campaigns for economic justice, including the Harvard Living Wage Campaign and the Boston Justice for Janitors Strike in 2002. Aaron is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and has appeared in major media outlets as an advocate for low-income individuals.
Sean Hogan, Production Manager with BUILD
Sean Hogan is the Production Manager at BUILD, an award winning social enterprise and training program in Winnipeg’s North End. Since 2014, he has been leading the social enterprise teams of BUILD, helping navigate the choppy waters of professional contracting, as well as looking for new ways to create training and employment opportunities for individuals with multiple employment barriers. He is also a husband, father, and children’s entertainer.
Michael Lewis, Executive Director of the Canadian Center for Community Renewal (CCCR)
Mike is well known in Canada and internationally as a practitioner, author, educator, and leader in the field of CED and the social economy. His experience cuts across the full range of functions connected to community renewal and development. He has built and advised a wide range of businesses, organizations and governments all over Canada and internationally as well. Mike is an innovator, activist and thinker with a penchant for linking practice with policy and the micro and macro. He also co-authored The Resilience Imperative with Pat Conaty, which explores how we might forge a steady-state economy that is socially, ecologically and economically sensible and sustainable.
10:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
Knox Community Church
451 18th St., Brandon
Small Farms Manitoba connects eaters with farmers from across the province. Whether at a doorstep, a farmer's market or an independent grocery store that sells the products of these farmers, these connections develop into relationships and food choices that are built on trust and transparency.
Consumers across Manitoba are seeking to learn more about the ownership, management and production methods of farmers across the province. By learning about the people and farming practices behind our food, Manitobans can all make better decisions about the food on our tables.
The second annual Small Farms Conference will have all of the highlights from the 2015 Conference, including a giant potluck lunch, 12 participatory workshops and tons of networking time.
A shuttle will be available for a small fee to transport participants from Winnipeg to the Conference - this shuttle will leave by 7:30 am and return to Winnipeg by 8:00 pm.
Follow the Facebook page for details as they are available, including speakers and workshops.
Member - $25.00 - Members of Small Farms Manitoba
Non-Member - $35.00
Student - $20.00 Student (high school and university - must show valid ID)
Child Care (per child) - $5.00 - A supervised play space will be available between 10 AM and 4 PM (suggested ages: 1-8)
Shuttle (Winnipeg) - $15.00 - A park-and-ride shuttle will leave Winnipeg from CMU (500 Shaftesbury) at 7:30 AM and will return to Winnipeg from Brandon by 9:00 PM (latest)
If you would like to reserve a spot on the Shuttle, you can purchase your ticket online OR send an email to info at smallfarmsmanitoba.com to reserve your spot - please RSVP by Friday, January 15th.
SOURCE: Small Farms Manitoba
The demographic shift is alive in Canada and the United States. We are an urban nation with 81% of Canadians living in cities. (2011 census). Join Ben Hecht, CEO, Living Cities and Mark Holmgren, Director, Vibrant Communities as they discuss how to build cities that are resilient, engaging and proactively achieving dramatically better results for low income residents. Ben will share examples from across the United States where Living Cities partners have shifted the traditional paradigms to harness impact investing and are re-building civic infrastructure using technology and innovation. Ben will also share his perspectives on how the innovation economy can play a role in disrupting inequality in cities.
Ben Hecht was appointed President & CEO of Living Cities in July, 2007. Since that time, the organization has adopted a broad, integrative agenda that harnesses the collective knowledge of its 22 member foundations and financial institutions to benefit low income people and the cities where they live. Living Cities deploys a unique blend of more than $140 million in grants, loans and influence to re-engineer obsolete public systems and connect low-income people and underinvested places to opportunity.
Prior to joining Living Cities, Mr. Hecht co-founded One Economy Corporation, a non-profit organization focused on connecting low-income people to the economic mainstream through innovative online content and increased broadband access. As President, from 2000-2007, Mr. Hecht led the growth of the organization from 4 employees to a $12 million organization with 50+ staff, online media properties serving more than 150,000 low-income people a month, and programs in 40 states, the Middle East and Africa.
Immediately before One Economy, Mr. Hecht was Senior Vice President at the Enterprise Foundation. There, he led the organization’s efforts beyond housing into childcare, workforce development and economic development and oversaw the expansion of the organization’s revolving loan fund from $30 million to $200 million.
Mark recently began working with Tamarack Institute as the Director of Vibrant Communities. Mark's focus is to create and support a connected learning community of 100 Canadian cities or regions with multi-sector roundtables addressing poverty reduction in their communities. The goal is to foster aligned poverty reduction strategies in cities, provinces and the federal government resulting in reduced poverty for 1 million Canadians.
A proven visionary and innovator, Mark has extensive experience as a big picture thinker, strategist, and facilitator. He brings to Tamarack a long history of experience with social housing development, the development of services aimed at poverty and homelessness elimination, and the identification and launch of strategies that are mission and values focused. He has taught at McEwan University (strategic planning and executive non-profit leadership) and was also a consult for the university in the area of curriculum review and re-design.
Greenstone Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC), based in Flin Flon, 7 hours North of Winnipeg, is a non-profit organization, headed by a Board of Directors, representing Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage and Sherridon. Greenstone CFDC provides economic and community development services.
| Contract Position: | 6 months |
| Part-time: | 25 hours per week |
| Salary: | $18/hour |
