This workshop is geared towards organizations who work with participants living with mental health or addictions issues.
Discussion will include:
Pat Capponi has carved out a career as an author, journalist, speaker, and social activist. She has written extensively on mental health, addictions and poverty issues, including Upstairs in the Crazy House: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor and Dispatches from the Poverty Line. She has worked in a variety of settings, which have helped her to develop her skills as a community worker, an educator, a facilitator, an advocate, a writer and a public speaker.
| When: | Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 9:30 am – 4:00pm |
| Where: | West End Commons, Assembly Hall 641 St. Matthew’s Ave., Winnipeg |
| Cost: | $50 registration fee, payable to the West Central Women’s Resource Centre |
| Deadline: | Please register on or before April 30th to Madeline at admin@wcwrc.ca |
- Lunch will be provided -
9:00am to 4:00pm Central Time
United Way of Winnipeg, Learning Centre
580 Main St. Winnipeg
Price:
$125 – non-members
$50 – members
You have some ideas for a social enterprise but now what? Marty and Kaye will walk you through the steps required to develop the feasibility and document the business plan for a social enterprise. You will have a chance to find out what and how to conduct research to demonstrate the feasibility for your enterprise. We will identify what needs to be included in the business plan and how to go about developing this important document. The business plan document is the key to securing funding and it also becomes the road map that will guide your organisation in the implementation of the enterprise.
Marty Donkervoort and Kaye Grant have been working together in the social economy focussing on social enterprise for many years. Working as part of Reconnaissance Management Consulting Group Inc, they have conducted a number of feasibility studies and/or business plans in the social enterprise sector both here in Winnipeg and across Canada.
Marty Donkervoort, B.Sc.F. M.B.A.
Since he started working In the social economy in the early 80’s, he has conducted numerous feasibility studies and drafted as many business plans for organizations that include Away Express, a social enterprise courier service, and The Big Carrot, worker co-op in the retail health food business, both in Toronto, and Inner City Renovation, a social enterprise in the construction sector in Winnipeg’s North End.
In addition to his consulting assignments, Marty teaches a course on social enterprise in the Business School and in the Urban and Inner City Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg. He has published a number of journal articles on social enterprise as well as a book "Inner City Renovation - How a Social Enterprise Changes Lives and Communities” 2013 Fernwood Publishing.
Kaye Grant, B.A. B.Ed. M.B.A.
Kaye Grant is an experienced business consultant, project manager, researcher and trainer. She has experience in project planning and management, market research and analysis, marketing strategy development, business planning, program reviews and management training. Kaye has been involved in conducting feasibility studies and developing business plans for over 16 years.
Winnipeg FoodShare Co-op is looking to hire a Market and Outreach Assistant to support the Co-op’s work in the West and Central neighbourhoods. We will pay $14/hour for 30 hours a week.
Send resumes to coordinator@foodsharecoop.com by Sunday May 11th.
