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Thursday, September 27
12:00 noon EDT
Format: 30-minute profile of a social finance initiative in Canada followed by a 30-minute, cross-country check-in

Join us Thursday, September 27 at 12:00 noon EDT as we welcome our guest speaker Karim Harji, co-founder and partner at Venture Deli.
 
Venture Deli, in partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, recently published a nation-wide study that provides insight into the issues and opportunities for social finance as perceived by the Canadian financial sector. The report identifies several key themes related to the level of awareness of social finance, as well as the challenges faced by financial institutions, asset managers, financial advisors and investors. 
 
Karim Harji will present these findings and propose strategies to build awareness across the financial sector, providing recommendations to help advance social finance in Canada. 
 
RSVP: Tristina Sinopoli at tsinopoli@marsdd.com

Webinar Login Details:

Visit https://mdd.adobeconnect.com/socialfinanceconnects and enter as a guest. Please allow Adobe Connect a moment to configure.
 
To access audio by phone, you can call in toll-free (North America) at 1-866-261-6767 with participant code 915097#.
 
Although Adobe Connect can be configured to use your computer’s VoIP and audio system, it is highly recommended that you connect by phone for optimum audio results. Should you have technical difficulties during the webinar, please email Nabeel Ahmed, nahmed@marsdd.com, for assistance.

About Karim Harji:

Karim Harji is a co-founder and partner at Venture Deli, a firm that builds and capitalizes ventures that matter to the world. He is also the lead at Purpose Capital, where he advises investors, foundations and financial institutions globally on how to align their investment strategies with their social impact objectives. Most recently, he was the Senior Manager for Partnerships & Social Impact at Social Capital Partners, where he led initiatives that provided growth financing and advisory services to franchises and large corporations seeking to enhance their social impact. 
 
Karim is a Senior Research Associate at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University, and teaches social entrepreneurship at York University and the University of Toronto (in the business and engineering faculties, respectively). He is a regular blogger at socialfinance.ca, the leading website on social finance and impact investing in Canada, which he co-founded in 2008. 
 
Karim holds a master's degree in public administration from Carleton University, and an undergraduate degree in economics from McMaster University. He is on the board of the Small Change Fund and the Social Investment Organization.
 
What is Social Finance Connects? Click here to find out!
 

 

Crowdsourcing for Health Innovation

Also available via webcast

Digital engagement empowers individuals to make an impact in ways that were never before possible.

Crowdsourcing has been used to build groundswells of participation in philanthropy, business and politics, so what can it do for health care?

Let's find out together

Featuring two globally recognized crowdsourcing experts:

  • Rahaf Harfoush is a digital innovation and Foresight Strategist who was invovled in the Obama presidential campaign
  • Jeff Howe is an author, the creator of the term Crowdsourcing, and a former contributing editor at Wired Magazine

This event is free of charge. Space is limited.

>> MORE INFO & REGISTRATION HERE

Let's Get Connected: Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association Conference

 

The new Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association (MNPHA) is presenting its first ever housing conference, November 22-23, 2012 at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg.
 
This event will bring together people from housing-related organizations to learn about creating, maintaining and improving affordable housing in Manitoba. Community groups, business, government, and housing providers will gather for two days of presentations, discussions and networking.
 
The MNPHA conference will provide education and management advice to property managers, boards of directors and staff of non-profit housing and affordable housing providers as well as support organizations from all communities across the province.
 
The newly-created Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association is hosting the conference with the support of Manitoba Housing. To find out more information about, or to register for the conference go to www.MNPHA.com.
 

Panel Discussion: A New Paradigm in Housing Co-operative Development

A PANEL DISCUSSION:

“HONOURING THE PAST, INNOVATING TOWARDS THE FUTURE”
A NEW PARADIGM IN HOUSING COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT

This event, co-hosted by SEED Winnipeg and the Co- op Housing Development Group (CHDG), is a learning event meant to explore the future of the cooperative housing sector in Manitoba.
 
The panel discussion is open to the community, and will be held Saturday, September 29th from 10:00a.m. - 12:00 at the Westboine Park Housing Cooperative, 32 Shelmerdine Drive.

Panel members will include:

David Thompson of Neighbourhood Partners, Davis, California Stuart Thomas, Terra Housing, Vancouver, British Columbia Local Activists in the Manitoba Housing Co-op Sector
 

 

Introduction to Co-operatives

 

Introduction to Cooperatives!
Everything you always wanted to know about COOPERATIVES, but were too afraid

6:00pm– 8:00pm
Wednesday September 12th, 2012

Spence Neighbourhood Association office
615 Ellice Avenue

Join us for a presentation by Cheryl Krostewitz, Cooperative Development Advisor from the Manitoba Cooperative Association Inc. with a discussion to follow. Refreshments will be served, and childminding will be available by phoning: 204-783-8607.

Contact:

Samantha Mitchell @ 204-783-2758

The Resilience Imperative: Remaking the CED Agenda? (Webinar Recording)

A feature webinar discussion with Mike Lewis on Resiliency – a next step for local economies in the transition to a low-carbon future. 

BACKGROUND

Twenty years ago, Mike Lewis was already one of the leading voices for community economic development in Canada.  As editor of Making Waves, he saw first hand how local action can help turn around impoverished neighbourhoods and communities.  But as his work expanded internationally and across sectors, the emerging spectres of climate change and peak oil cast community renewal in a new light. 

In his new book, The Resilience Imperative, Lewis and co-author Pat Conaty of the new economics foundation draw on their wealth of experience to show how energy, food, housing, finance and other sectors familiar to CED practitioners can be reinvented at a more local and regional scale, buffering communities from the economic shocks that the global transition to lower-carbon economies will likely entail. 

The Resilience Imperative is firmly grounded in extensive research carried out by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance.  With endorsements from David Suzuki, Bill McKibbon, Hazel Henderson, Gar Alperovitz, Robin Murray and many others, The Resilience Imperative offers practical solutions for a cultural shift to solidarity, co-operation and sufficiency in a future that respects the earth’s ecological limits. 

SPEAKER

Michael Lewis, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, has been engaged in community economic development (CED), development finance and the social and co-operative economy for over 35 years, Mike is a prolific author, and respected practitioner who’s been involved in entrepreneurial development, network building, strategic assistance to CED organizations and curriculum design for community resilience. 

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