Join us for our online Manitoba Spring Member Meeting 2021!

As a network, we have two members-only meetings per year. The Spring Member Meeting is a chance to consider overall strategy, check in on key questions, and meet with each other before the summer season. The meeting will be interactive and connect you with your network. We hope you'll join us!

• When: Thursday, May 27 from 10:30am - 12:00pm Central Time
• Agenda:
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Review of strategic priorities
  • Sharing a reflection and updates on programming
  • Refining our the direction moving forward 

American Sign Language and Closed Captioning will be available at the meeting. Additional accessibility accommodations are available by advanced request by contacting Genevieve Dack-Tittley at genspark@ccednet-rcdec.ca before May 20th, 2021. 

Register now for the CCEDNet Manitoba Spring Member Meeting

Join us at 10:30am Central Time on May 27th, 2021

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Mainstream media can be a powerful influencer.  An interview or article in a mainstream publication will reach a different audience than social media.  Just as important as reach, however, is clout.  With mainstream media, you can’t self-publish like you can with social media.  It means that someone else – a  journalist – needs to know your work and think it’s worthy of a story! 

Working with mainstream media brings risks, too.  As soon as you issue a media release or give an interview, it’s out of your hands.  Statements can be taken out of context and editors can do what they like with your story.  Building trust is paramount!

Have you had successful experiences with mainstream media in your advocacy work?  What about ones that went wrong?  What did you take away from those experiences? 

This campfire chat will provide you with an opportunity to share your own experience in working with the media in your advocacy campaigns, and learn from others’ stories in an informal peer-to-peer learning environment.  If you’re a novice, no worries, your stories are just as valuable!

Please join us on May 6!

Register for Campfire Chat: Working with the Media - Easier Said Than Done!

The Strengthening Community Economies Series is designed to build skills, provide support, and strengthen a culture of political action among CCEDNet members. To join CCEDNet or to find out more about our barrier-free membership policy, click here.

This International Co-operative Governance Symposium is an interactive and participatory gathering of governance professionals, experts, and researchers from various countries. This is not a large, “talking head” style conference as most attendees will be direct contributors to at least one of the sessions during the Symposium.

Consider these few days as an opportunity to think deeply about governance systems that are fit for co-operatives. Learn from each other about new and different frameworks and practices that focus on the participatory, people-centred, democratic, and jointly-owned nature of co-operatives with the objective of maintaining and enhancing co-operative health.

Symposium Context
Governance in any type of organization is not a “one size fits all”. The best Co-operative governance evolves and is dependent on situation - co-operative type, culture, country, sector, economic, and other factors. However, the best governance in co-operatives is understood in the context of the co-operative purpose and enterprise model. Whether and how this is being done is central to this Symposium as well as our multi-year co-operative governance initiative.

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