A first of its kind, national-level Indigenous Innovation Summit

The Indigenous Innovation Summit brings together Indigenous innovators from across Canada and a variety of sectors to find new approaches to common challenges. By way of a unique, participatory format, the Summit encourages "field building", creating new connections and partnerships and overcoming old barriers.

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Reconciliation as Innovation - A special night at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg, MB
Thursday, November 19, 2015 7:30 pm CST
Open to the Public - $10.00 (Free for survivors and Summit ticket holders)

Don’t miss this special evening event where we will honour Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). This event will explore innovative ways in which we are making reconciliation a reality in Canada.

Part of the Indigenous Innovation Summit’s programming, this marquee event will explore the state of reconciliation today with an eye toward new approaches. Audience participation welcome in the Q&A to follow.

Moderated by the CBC's Wab Kinew, speakers include:

The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Ry Moran, Director, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Jessica Bolduc, Executive Director, 4Rs Youth Movement
Stephen Kakfwi, President and CEO of Canadians for a New Partnership (CFNP) and former Premier of the Northwest Territories

Summit Highlights

Participation - Building networks requires more than passive listening, it requires interaction. The Summit is designed to foster engagement between participants and speakers, letting you share ideas and get to know each other at every opportunity.

Sharing Ideas - The Summit will bring together people from diverse fields including the arts, innovations in health, education and social finance.

Onsite Social Innovation Lab - The Winnipeg Boldness Project in partnership with SiG at MaRS will host a solutions lab where summit attendees can interact and contribute to real world innovation. Learn more about MaRS Solutions Lab here. To learn more about the Winnipeg Boldness Project go here.

Three Learning Streams - Geared toward all interests and levels of expertise.

Learn more about Social Innovation here

Let's Transition to a Low-Carbon Future

Transition Winnipeg is a community-led initiative to increase our quality of life, make Winnipeg's local economy more resilient, and adapt to contemporary challenges -- climate change, social inequality, and energy price volatility.  

Transition is community-led. Anyone can be involved and everyone is invited, regardless of background, age, or experience.

Meet others in Winnipeg and from around the world who are launching social enterprises designed to thrive during this time of Transition.

The low-carbon, steady-state economy of the future can deliver environmental, social, and financial sustainability. But this transition calls for new, collaborative forms of business organization that serve communities and enhance our quality of life under challenging circumstances. Join us to learn about and foster opportunities for social enterprises in renewable energy, food production and processing, transportation services, community planning, and social services. 

The social enterprise accelerator

Make your pitch
Saturday, Nov. 14th 
Union Centre, 1-4 PM
206-275 Broadway
 
Presentation by "Enterprising Non Profits" 

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Developmental Evaluation (DE) can be used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings.

Join Michael Quinn Patton and Mark Cabaj for a conversation on DE, what it takes to do this work, and the results that can be expected. And get a preview of the case studies, learnings and principles shared in Michael’s new book, Developmental Evaluation Examplars: Principles in Practice.

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“The field has been waiting for a book like this one. A well-balanced, diverse set of authors focus on good examples of DE practice. The book shows how innovative projects and programs require evaluation practices and approaches that honor complexity, flexibility, and systems thinking. It describes with clarity how DE actually happens in complex ecologies and settings across the globe." - Rodney Hopson, PhD, College of Education and Human Development, George Mason University

Speakers

About Michael Quinn Patton

Michael Patton, with more than 45 years experience as an evaluator, is a generalist who uses all kinds of methods, especially mixed methods, and focuses on adapting the design to the situation, intended uses, and intended users to maximize use -- utilization-focused evaluation, the approach he pioneered in the 1970's. He has worked with organizations and programs at the international, national, state, and local levels, and with philanthropic, not-for-profit, private sector, and government programs. He has worked with peoples from many different cultures and perspectives. As a generalist he has worked across the full range of efforts at improving human effectiveness and results, including programs in leadership development, education, human services, the environment, public health, employment, agricultural extension, food systems, human rights, early childhood, arts, criminal justice, anti-poverty programs, transportation, diversity, managing for results, performance indicators, effective governance, and futuring. His recent work has focused on developmental evaluation and principles-driven evaluation, both of which he pioneered, and are based on complexity theory and systems thinking. Michael is also co-author of Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed with Frances Westley and Brenda Zimmerman. 

About Mark Cabaj

Mark Cabaj is an Associate of Tamarack and Vibrant Communities and President of the company From Here to There. Mark’s current focus is on developing practical ways to assist groups to understand, plan and evaluate policies, programs and initiatives that address complex issues. This includes challenges such as neighbourhood renewal, poverty and homelessness, community safety, educational achievement and health. He is particularly focused on expanding the ideas and practice of developmental evaluation, a new approach to evaluation which emphasizes learning and design thinking in emerging and sometimes fast-moving environments.

Start co-operating.

Are you interested in starting a co-operative? Do you work for a co-op or a credit union and want to learn more about the co-op sector? Does the idea of co-operation interest you?

That's why we're here. Come and learn all about the co-op sector, co-operatives, how and why to start one, and how the BCCA can help you as you think of ways to build a co-operative economy.

Learn about co-op business basics.

Learn about the history of co-ops, different kinds of co-ops ranging from consumer co-ops to worker co-ops to nonprofit co-ops at this workshop.

Participants will also explore how to take their idea towards the development of a co-op, including:

• The co-op development path
• Assessing a business idea
• Feasibility and business planning
• The nuts and bolts of starting a co-op
• Support and assistance from the BCCA and the co-op sector

Access co-op development support.

If you are representing a group that is exploring co-operation as a business idea, taking a Co-ops 101 course allows your group to register with the BCCA as an "Emerging Co-op" and access ongoing BCCA support, including access to co-op development experts, ongoing advice, discounted training and education, and more. 

Attend via interactice webinar.

BCCA workshops are offered via online interactive webinar. You can attend from the comfort of your home, your office, or your iPad, anywhere in the world.

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This webinar will feature the work of CleanStart, a non-profit social enterprise providing eco-friendly junk removal and job programs for residents with barriers to employment in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. We will also hear from Exeko, a progressive Montréal based social innovation agency using creativity, art and philosophy to promote social inclusion through cultural and intellectual mediations addressing homelessness and Aboriginal youth among others. 

Discover how CleanStart, once small start-up, is moving to the next phase of expansion through the creation of comprehensive job training programs, social media outreach and flexible employee supports to marginalized individuals facing barriers to employment. Hearabout the significant impacts they have made working with affordable housing and homelessness communities across Vancouver through their social return on investment model.

Learn about Exeko’s idAction Mobile program, a philosophical and cultural caravan that tours the streets of Montréal to engage citizens, in particular those experiencing homelessness. On board are books, newspapers, eyeglasses, art supplies, documentary films and writing kits, all offering the means of civic participation through access to information on current events, while providing a safe space for knowledge exchange, discussion, artistic play and self-discovery.  

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SPEAKERS:

Laura Barreca: Operations Manager, CleanStart, Vancouver (BC)

Nadia Duguay: Co-Founder & Executive Director, Exeko, Montréal (QC)

* This webinar will be delivered in English only.