full-time 2-year term with potential to become a permanent position; annual salary $45,000 Reporting to the Executive Director, this position will be responsible for coordinating the evaluation of programs that support healthy sustainable communities.
Volunteer Manitoba offers workshops and events throughout the year, delivered in their Training Room in Winnipeg, in communities across Manitoba, and through contract training delivered straight to your organization.
Volunteer Manitoba's goal is to provide information, training and resources on all aspects of the voluntary sector and to build strong communities with working partners including governments, researchers, non-profit/charitable organizations, volunteers, funders, donors, labour and businesses.
Their History
Volunteer Manitoba was established in 1978, then known as the Central Volunteer Bureau, when the United Way and the Winnipeg Foundation realized a need to support the voluntary sector and volunteerism in Manitoba with a separate agency. Since then, our programs, services and partnerships have dramatically expanded and help non-profit groups and individuals enhance their capacity to anticipate, understand and meet community needs throughout the province.
Their Mission
Volunteer Manitoba's mission is to support groups and individuals in the voluntary sector to develop and enhance their capacity to anticipate, understand, celebrate, and meet community needs in Manitoba.
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14-16 October 2010 – Brandon, MB
The 2010 Rural Development Institute (RDI) and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) annual policy conference will be held in Brandon, Manitoba, 14-16 October 2010.
Across Canada, beyond the city boundaries, there are successes with projects, approaches, and policy. Challenges are being defined, plans prepared, and successes evident and measured. Rural Canada is working to bring together examples, practices, and research as evidence. Practitioners, leaders, decision makers, and academics with local to international interests are making a difference socially, environmentally, economically, and with technology. Some are making headway, advancing with innovations, adding value to resource activities, finding new markets, and welcoming immigrants. Financial institutions, member organizations, and foundations are stepping up and making a difference across rural Canada. These and other responses give a glimpse of what’s on the brighter side of rural Canada. Sharing their pathways based on scenarios, projections, and trends of policy, programs, projects, and practices are critical for others pursuing the brighter sides of rural. This conference features examples of those actively designing rural futures – some do it yourself while others plan, and some are partnering. They are building on and enhancing existing infrastructure, navigating success by discovering and making better use of social, environmental, and economic assets, and finding new ways to engage and enspirit people to sustain rural places. For this conference, looking on the bright side means emphasizing what’s working and describing a fuller range of activities that form pathways to many different futures in rural areas.
We are inviting proposals for presentations, panel discussions, and posters that purposefully emphasize what's working and pathways to a future. Deadline for the first call for presentation and poster abstracts is April 15, 2010.
Further details on the conference can be found at here.
Location: Prairies Lethbridge AB / St-Pierre Jolys MB
Classification: Administrative support
Position Status: Contractual/Full Time
Reports to the Project Coordinator
The theme of Women’s Worlds 2011 is “Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world”. Why? Where globalization and women are concerned, provocative questions abound:
Ours is an increasingly integrated world – one where boundaries are shifting under growing flows of capital, goods, power … and people. Who and where we are as individuals and communities becomes less clear within this contemporary, globalized context.
Around the world, women are grappling with changing political, cultural, economic, social, and environmental realities. And the effects of numerous crises – be they economic, ecological, or health-related – intensify obstacles to women’s equality.
Globalization has contributed to the destabilization and marginalization of women and communities. Yet certain consequences have yielded positive results for women. Globalization has meant enhanced communications and organizing – trans-national connectivity that must be deepened as women’s organizations and networks struggle to sustain themselves and maintain resilience in the face of forces that oppose women's equality.
Women’s Worlds 2011 will be a place for the exploration of these complex matters through reflection, learning, and sharing a variety of ideas and experiences – especially those of women most deeply affected.
How do we go about creating organizational change in our schools, agencies and human service institutions in order to better address issues of oppression, privalege, racism and colonization?
The staff at Dufferin School will be sharing their journey that they have been on for the past 5 years to strengthen their capacity to address these critical issues.
This session is the third in a series of workshops sponsored by the Centre for Anti-Oppression Studies for human service workers, social workers, educators, health care workers, students, activists, and volunteers to further develop awareness, knowledge and skills regarding anti-oppression education, action and practice.
Registration fee: $50 - lunch provided
Workshop fee subsidies available for students adn individuals with low incomes
