Dear Applicants,
An additional candidate will be selected to fill the available internship in Tanzania.
Elizabeth Sheehan, the co-founding champion and now president of Climate Smart Business Inc , is leading an exciting webinar on the evolution and scaling of a unique community based approach to carbon reduction. Organized as a B-Corp which blends non-profit and private ownership, Climate Smart is a social enterprise focused on engaging small and mid–size businesses to reduce their carbon foot print through energy, waste and transportation efficiencies. Their story from idea to prototype to piloting their package of services is joined up with a remarkable scaling of their carbon reduction impacts in B.C. Partnerships with municipalities have been an important feature of their approach.
About Climate Smart:
Having delivered their 100th training cohort and within reach of their initial 1 million tonnes carbon under management target, Climate Smart is now considering other key issues:
Date and Time: June 18th, 9:00- 11:00AM Pacific Time
** To find out when this webinar is offered in your time zone, visit: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
These key issues and others will be brought up throughout our webinar. We hope you can join us for the presentation!
Brown Bag Network SessionAs part of Winnipeg Rental Network’s ongoing discussions around Eviction Prevention, the WRN will be hosting an inter-agency network meeting to share experiences and challenges related to secure tenancy. Bring your lunch! Thursday, May 30th at noon.372 Notre Dame Avenue (the home of the Central Neighbourhoods Development Corporation)
Please RSVP so beverages can be provided.
Chris has 21 years of marketing, communications, and economic development experience in enterprise, government, and not-for-profit settings. Chris has spent the last 8 years challenging his clients to think differently, and more aggressively, about branding and marketing. Chris and the communities he works with have received 24 provincial, national, and international awards.
All you have to do is follow the advice in reverse, and before you know it, you and your neighbours will have built a thriving, successful community that’s the envy of everyone.
As an EDO you have some of the toughest jobs around. Every resident is a member of the Board of Directors. We are pushed and pulled in harried directions. Resources are scarce. It’s easy to seek easier paths...to row in our own direction and wonder why we’re not rowing together. But row together toward what? Well vision...a cause....a sharing of values and ambition....a group hug that stays upright. Buckle up and find out how to rid your inhibitions about how communities should do things in a humorous and rather unusual look at a new perspective on Visioning, and how to link it to a handful of handy branding principles.
View the forum's agenda and register here.
Speakers: Tom Kelly and Liz Weaver
Location: via conference call
Date: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET
Details: Tom Kelly, a key thought-leader at Tamarack's 2013 CCI: Accelerating Impact <http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/cci.html> is renowned for his ground-breaking evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's ten-year community change initiative Making Connections using the Theory-of-Change methodology. Making Connections is an initiative that focuses on developing family economic success in several communities across the United States. Join Tom and Liz Weaver for this tele-learning and discover more about why the Theory of Change methodology is well suited for comprehensive collective impact initiatives; and, how it can be harnessed as a practice to accelerate shared learning. Tom will also profile more about his current evaluation work as the Vice President for Knowledge, Evaluation and Learning for the Hawai'i Community Foundation <http://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org> .
