Despite concerns about physically gathering, the need for community organizations and practitioners to remain connected and informed about issues and challenges to our work is particularly urgent. This year’s Gathering will take place virtually over a week in December, but the spirit of collaboration and solidarity remains. 

Right now, we’re asking big questions: how to continue serving our communities and mandates when the reality of our work is constantly changing? How do we continue to weave our movements, and fight for a more equitable future if we can’t connect and organize? How do we envision a future when the present itself is overwhelming?

Delivered virtually through a combination of discussions, peer-led learning, and connection pieces, the Gathering strengthens solidarity within the community sector, deepens our ability to work collaboratively, while sharpening meaning-making and vision in our work.

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A growing network of Canadian organizations and professionals are exploring Social Acquisitions for Business Recovery (SABR), a strategy that sees conventional enterprises transition into social purpose enterprising forms (like a co-op, a social enterprise, a charity, a non-profit, or any combination of the same).

Join to hear about hard work being done and opportunities being created to Activate and Design SABR solutions, participate in some engaging social innovation activities that will spark your creativity, and forge powerful new connections with Canadian professionals who are leading the charge in Social Acquisitions for Business Recovery. All are welcome!

This event is designed to engage the entirety of the Leadership Legacy Lab Community from across Canada, including stakeholders in social enterprise and co-operative development, small business succession and recovery, and social finance.

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This webinar is presented by CMC’s Canada’s Emerging Co‑operators. The study Co‑operatives and Mutuals in the Age of Uncertainty done by Co‑operatives and Mutuals Canada in collaboration with Abacus Data, clearly shows that millennials and post-millennials share the values associated with the co‑operative model, but don’t know much about it. In this webinar, engaged young co‑operative professionals, will share their answers to some of the following important questions and many more! 

How can we raise the profile of the co‑operative sector and introduce it to the next generation of members, consumers and      citizens? 

To be attractive to millennials and post‑millennials, are today’s co‑operatives promoting enough the foundational principles and      values at the origin of the co-op movement? 

Could an emphasis on the values and principles attract the next generation of leaders and help them meet the demands of socially conscious consumers?

What challenges and opportunities does the sector face? 

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