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Right to Housing has organized a National Housing Day Call to Action

1:30pm to 3:00pm Central Time
West End Commons
641 St. Matthews Ave.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will use this opportunity to officially launch Sarah Cooper’s comprehensive and bold paper, "What the Expiring Social Housing Operating Agreements Mean for Manitoba".

Following this presentation two panels will be present to respond to it.  The Community Panel will be made up of:

• Tim Sale, Right to Housing Coalition
• Donald Benham, Winnipeg Harvest
• Molly McCracken, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (MB)

The Political Panel will be made up of:

• Jim Carr, Liberal Candidate for Winnipeg South Centre
• Daniel Blaikie, New Democratic Candidate for Elmwood-Transcona
• The Conservative party did not respond to the invitation to participate

Download the postcard

This meeting is a call to action.  One you can take is to use the email postcard above to call on the Prime Minister and the Minister of State responsible for CMHC, the Hon. Candace Bergen, to renew investment in social housing. This can be copied and sent electronically or printed and sent without postage to:

Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
pm at pm.gc.ca

2:30pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time

A conversation with Otto Scharmer and David Korten

What role does narrative play in shaping economic life? How must the current narrative change if we are to have a viable human future and an economy that works for all, including Living Earth our home and source of nurture? What will it take to discover and establish a new narrative in the public mind? If this is an exploration you are interested in please join us!

We invite you to join a MaestroConference conversation with two visionary thinkers, David Korten and Otto Scharmer, whose current books challenge the foundational assumptions of established economic thought and call for a dramatic restructuring of our economic narrative and institutions. (All you will need is your phone to join this conversation. You will not need to be on a computer!)

The conversation will be hosted by master convener and gifted facilitator, Charles Holmes. Attendees on the call will have a chance to discuss their views in small groups and field questions to David and Otto.

While there is no charge for this December 8 web event, registration is required for access to the conference line.

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About the Speakers:

David Korten is the author of the forthcoming Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth, co-founder/chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founder/president of the Living Economies Forum, and a former Harvard Business School professor. His earlier books include When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning and Agenda for a New Economy.

Otto Scharmer is the author of Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics, American economist, senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Business, founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and co-founder of the Global Well-being and Gross National Happiness Lab. His earlier books include Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges.

Charles Holmes, who will host this conversation, has for more than two decades designed and facilitated collaborative strategic meetings and multi-stakeholder dialogues for corporations, government, non-profits & communities. Working at the intersection of strategy and humanity, Charles asks powerful questions that invite deep reflection, generate compelling visions, and reveal new possibilities.

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Learn how community foundations are building community wealth

This webinar will present and discuss the new report from the Democracy Collaborative, "A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community foundations deploying all resources to build community wealth."

The webinar will highlight the best practices and lessons learned by leading community foundations, and provide a framework for audience members who want to better use their community foundation's institutional and financial resources to build community wealth.

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In the report, Marjorie Kelly and Violeta Duncan explore how community foundations across the country are embracing a new mission as key local anchors, catalyzing transformative community economic development and mission-focused investment.

Profiling 30 cutting-edge community foundations—the "Innovative 30"—the report offers an exciting snapshot of an emerging trend, one driven both by the need in communities across the country for new thinking about seemingly intractable economic problems, and by the need for community foundations to assert their uniquely place-based capacity to convene local stakeholders and align local resources in an era of growing competition for donor-advised funds from national foundations linked to commercial banks and investment houses.

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In coversation with:

• Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects, The Democracy Collaborative
• Violeta Duncan, Community Development Associate, The Democracy Collaborative
• Sandy Wiggins, Principal, Consilience, LLC; Chair, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); and Senior Advisor, RSF Social Finance
• Patrick Horvath, Director of Economic Opportunity, Director of Strengthening Neighborhoods, The Denver Foundation