10am to 4:30pm Eastern Time

Join the third annual Community Wealth Building Summit. This one-day summit is the premier UK event for uniting, informing and inspiring the community wealth building movement.

This year’s summit will showcase how community wealth building is being used to rebuild and reform local economies reeling from the impact of Covid-19. It will provide insight into policy and practice from city mayors, national and local governments, communities and practitioners in the UK and beyond; helping us all to build fairer, sustainable, and more resilient local economies in these unprecedented times.

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This year’s event will present opportunities to hear from global thought leaders who are progressing community wealth building policy and from emerging and established practitioners

The summit will help you to:

• Learn how community wealth building can and should be placed at the heart of the Covid-19 recovery effort;
• Understand how community wealth building represents a break from failed economic planning;
• Increase awareness and understanding of the ideas behind community wealth building and the places where they are being applied.

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9:00am to 12:00pm
Cost: $95

Partnerships are a strategic approach to enhance the relevance of your organization. In this online workshop, explore the types of partnerships that further your mission and are needed to build upon the changing demands and new mandates challenging your non-profit and community. Participants will be encouraged to bring ideas of potential partnerships to the workshop and work through the steps to build these partnerships to be meaningful and successful. This workshop is required to complete Volunteer Manitoba's Emerging Leaders Program.

Register for the Enhancing Relevance: Strategies for Building Partnerships workshop

Who should attend:

Executive Directors, Board members, Program managers, Volunteer managers, Coordinators and others interested in this topic.

Facilitator:

As the owner/principal of Building Up, Wendy Bulloch is an experienced team leader and has been identified as a "process builder" to people and organizations in various capacities including: an Executive Director, leader, partnership builder, project manager and a facilitator and trainer. Wendy has served on a variety of boards and board committees over the past 25+ years in Manitoba and across Canada. She was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her volunteer work with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba. She is an experienced team leader and has been identified as a 'process builder' to people and organizations in various capacities.

Learn more about the Enhancing Relevance: Strategies for Building Partnerships workshop

9:00am - 12:00pm
October 27, November 3 & 10
Readings and short assignments between sessions
Cost: $400

This workshop will provide staff and volunteers an opportunity to examine and practice the organizational and HR skills necessary to meet the challenges of a changing volunteer environment.

Over the course of 3 sessions, this workshop will focus on imparting current best practices in volunteer management while helping participants develop and improve the competencies required to manage a strong volunteer program. Participants will develop a clear understanding of the Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement, and how organizations (of all sizes) can implement the core components of the CCVI: the value of volunteer involvement, the guiding principles for volunteer involvement and the organizational standards of practice.

Register for the Introduction to Volunteeer Management workshop

Topics Covered Include:

• Trends in Volunteerism
• Planning and Positioning your Volunteer Program
• Risk Management and Screening Volunteers
• Job Design
• Marketing and Volunteer Recruitment
• Volunteer Orientation and Training
• Performance Management
• Volunteer Retention and Recognition

Participants will have an opportunity to network with other volunteer engagers and become familiar with current resources on the topic of volunteer management.

Facilitator:

Dawn Bourbonnais is Volunteer Manitoba's Manager of Communications & Outreach and is responsible for increasing awareness of Volunteer Manitoba's mission - to encourage and promote volunteerism across the province.

Dawn oversees VM's internal and external communications strategies, maintains the website and social media platforms, delivers presentations and organizes community outreach, and manages VM's referral services. She works closely with volunteer managers across Manitoba, and provides advice and support on issues relating to volunteer management.

Prior to working for Volunteer Manitoba, Dawn spent over 15 years working in the not-for-profit and arts sector, specifically in the music and film sectors. She is a member of Volunteer Canada's National Council of Volunteer Centres and currently sits on the board of VMPC (Volunteer Management Professionals of Canada).

Dawn has also managed volunteers for a many festival and community events held in Winnipeg, and is especially fond of the volunteers at the Jazz Winnipeg Festival (whom she worked with for over 13 years).

Learn more about the Introduction to Volunteer Management course

In 2018, the Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy Co-Creation Steering Group released its report, Inclusive Innovation: New Ideas and New Partnerships for Stronger Communities.  This comprehensive report contains 12 key recommendations that would help communities tackle their toughest social and environmental challenges through skill development, unlocking private capital, increasing market access, and regulatory changes.  In other words – it would be a game changer!

The federal government has committed to developing a Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy (SISF Strategy) and, in 2018, announced a $755M Social Finance Fund and $50M Investment Readiness Program.  BUT, the Social Finance Fund has yet to be rolled out, after a very successful 2-year pilot, the Investment Readiness Program is set to expire in March 2021, and there has been little action on the remaining recommendations.  

The game has not changed….YET.

We have a window of opportunity to push the government to implement a comprehensive strategy, expand the Investment Readiness Program, and accelerate the Social Finance Fund.  Over the spring and summer, several mobilizing efforts, including by the People-Centred Economy Group, Impact Response, the National Impact Investment Practitioners table, former members of the SISF Steering Group, and others, have urged the federal government to accelerate SISF as part of COVID recovery.  This is a critical moment for a concerted push for continued action by the federal government to ensure that SISF is part of budget 2021.  

On November 2 we heard from social innovators about how SISF supports their work, why they’re pushing for action now, and how you can be part of a campaign that will help you have your voice heard on this strategic issue!

Guest Speakers:

• Béatrice Alain, Executive Director, Chantier de l’économie sociale 
• Victor Beausoleil, Co-founder & Executive Director, Social Economy Through Social Inclusion
• Rosalind Lockyer, Founder & Executive Director, PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise
• Wendy Keats, Executive Director, Co-operative Enterprise Council of NB
• Raissa Marks, Government Relations Director, Canadian Community Economic Development Network

Resources:

• PowerPoint presentation from CCEDNet
• PowerPoint presentation from PARO
• PowerPoint presentation from CECNB

1:00pm to 4:00pm Eastern Time

Sunday, October 25, 2020 is the date of the 40th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures. Kali Akuno and George Monbiot will speak addressing the topic “Land as a Commons: Building the New Economy.” The virtual event will take place from 1pm to 4pm Eastern Daylight Time. The two talks and the live-streamed discussion following will be free to all registered.

The topic is land access, the problems generated by a concentration of ownership, and ways of creating a more fair and equitable system. The Schumacher Center’s own response to the inequities in land access is to call for a voluntary gifting of land into regional community land trusts where its use can be allocated through lease agreements in a socially determined manner outside of market forces.

Register for "Land As Commons: Building the New Economy"