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Management & Financial Administration for Community Leadership

Instructor: Debra Joyal, Manager - Community Financial Services

Time: Tuesday 5:30-8:15, starting September 11.

Location: UW main campus, Room 3M57

About the Course:

As small-scale and not-for-profit structures, community-based and aboriginal organizations often face unique challenges and political/cultural realities in terms of overall management and operations. This course provides students with a good understanding of the key facets of management and administrative structures within the community and aboriginal sectors in particular. Key topics include organizational structures and management controls, financial statements and budgeting, performance measurement, strategic planning and operations analysis and evaluation.

Opportunity to Audit:

Call Claudette at 988.7196 for more information on the audit process.

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Choice Matrix Webinar: Tools for Community Action

This Choice Matrix webinar: Tools for Community Action, will introduce CED practitioners to a website that will help find effective tools that fit their current project. But what is a tool? Any guide, worksheet, checklist, manual, “how-to” or process in text, audio or video formats that is focused on guiding the user through a task. This webinar will introduce you to hundreds of tools developed by professionals, for professionals, in a convenient and concise layout to help your community achieve development goals. 

Wednesday, August 28th  (2:00pm-3:00pm CST)

Rural Development Institute (RDI) invites anyone interested in CED to join us as we introduce the Choice Matrix.

The goals of this webinar:

  • Develop participant understanding on how the Choice Matrix works
  • To learn how the Choice Matrix could better aid you in your daily activities 
This online webinar will be moderated by Dr. Bill Ashton (RDI Director) with a presentation by Matthew Grills and Yakub Adediran (RDI Researchers) on how the Choice Matrix can make CED easier. We’ll hear from you too with a brief Q&A session to collect your thoughts.

Contact:

 

Please RSVP your participation by contacting Bev Lischka at rdi@brandonu.ca or 204-571-8515. Once registered, workshop material and details for accessing the web meeting will be emailed to you. 
 
If these dates don’t work for you please contact us—we want to hear from you! We are offering more upcoming sessions and will make every attempt to reschedule for your organization. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technology, Social Media and Community Engagement

 

Speakers: Tierney Smith, Tech Soup Canada
Location: via conference call
Date: Thursday, August 16th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET 

Details:

Tierney Smith is the Community Manager of Tech Soup Canada. She regularly tests out new programs, technology and social media ideas for their use to non profits of all sizes. She writes a blog about these resources: http://www.techsoupcanada.ca/blog/11935 as part of her work. Join Tierney Smith and Liz Weaver on this call as they discuss technology and social media tools that can be used to enhance, create and measure community engagement. As always there will be an opportunity to ask your questions towards the end of the call.

>> Register here

Towards a Shared Prosperity

 

Speaker: Senator Art Eggleton
Location: via conference call
Thursday, September 13th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET 

Details: 

Senator Art Eggleton has served the citizens in public office for over 37 years. He has been a City of Toronto Councillor, Mayor of Toronto, Member of Parliament representing York Centre and most recently as Senator. Senator Eggleton is co-chair of the recently formed Federal All Party Anti-Poverty Caucus. Senator Eggleton has been a strong advocate for reducing poverty and moving Canada towards a shared prosperity. Learn more about the All Party Anti-Poverty Caucus, income inequality in Canada and how Canadians must focus on a shared prosperity. There will be an opportunity for participant questions and discussion towards the end of the interview.

>> Register here

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