Community Safety Coordinator CONTRACT POSITION
West Broadway Community Organization (WBCO)
WBCO is a not-for-profit organization that coordinates social and economic revitalization efforts in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood.
As a community economic development organization, SEED is a diverse workplace looking for people to help further develop innovative and responsive programming. We value candidates having experiences living on a low level of income and working with inner-city communities.
SEED envisions a world where opportunities exist for all people and communities to realize their hopes. Its mission is to build strong communities and increase opportunities for people through financial empowerment programs and services.
September 24, 2019
9:00am - 12:00pm
The WestEnd Commons
641 St. Matthews Ave,
$25 members | $75 non-members
Register for Social Innovation, CED, and the Social Economy: Understanding Where We Fit
In Manitoba, community builders use a range of approaches, theories, and tools to do the 
work of creating inclusive and sustainable communities. We have a long tradition of using community economic development, social economy enterprises, and community-based organizations to create systemic social change. Over the past few years across Canada, new language and approaches for social change have been popping up, often called ‘social innovation’.
While this language is gaining ground and, in the past year or so, has been promoted by the federal government in particular, it isn't common here. What does it mean? And what can the language of social innovation offer to community economic development and social economy approaches?
This session is an opportunity to have an open discussion about this work. Jill and Sarah will use a 'fishbowl' method to discuss their understanding of this work as well as opening it up to questions and group discussion. Following discussion, we’ll explore and practice some commonly used techniques for facilitating social innovation in groups.
Learning Objectives:
FACILITATORS
Jill Andres 
designs and facilitates processes that bring people from across backgrounds and sectors together around a complex challenge to effect meaningful, systems-level change. These diverse stakeholders find shared understanding and a common purpose, co-create and test new models, and implement high-potential solutions. As a certified coach, Jill takes a coaching approach to all her work, seeking to ensure that any initiative she is involved in strengthens the capacity of the group to move forward autonomously.
Jill’s own background bridges sectors and disciplines. She has worked in the public, private and community sectors, and brings this range of experience to her work facilitating across boundaries and systems. Just prior to moving back to Winnipeg in December 2018, Jill was the founding director of the social innovation centre at Mount Royal University. She appreciates time on her yoga mat, paddling, running, skiing or snowshoeing with family and friends.
Sarah Leeson-Klym is Manitoba Regional Director for the Canadian CED Network. In her 
role there, she works with a staff team and the regional network to build knowledge, capacity, and skills for community development and social enterprise, as well as promoting community solutions to our collective challenges to governments and public audiences. She started studying community economic development and the social economy as part of a degree through the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at University of Winnipeg, and since then has been steeped in these methods through the network. In the past year, she’s been increasingly involved at the national level, supporting CCEDNet’s involvement in the emerging Social Innovation & Social Finance Strategy.
As part of her role at CCEDNet, she serves on the board of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada. Outside of CCEDNet, she’s an active community member in the West End of Winnipeg and the volunteer administrative director and production team co-leader for Rainbow Trout Music Festival.
2:00pm - 3:00pm Eastern Time
Join the upcoming webinar discussion Examining Power Dynamics in Systems Change on September 16 with FSG and New Profit as we take a deeper dive into one of the most critical systems change components – Power Dynamics, and the unique role that they play in systems change efforts. During this discussion, we will have an opportunity to hear from three social change leaders who will share how power impacts their work and how they navigate power structures to achieve their goals.
Can't make the actual virtual coffee time? Registering also means you'll be notified when the recording is uploaded to the Collective Impact Forum resource library.
This online event is hosted in partnership with the Collective Impact Forum, FSG, and New Profit
Want to learn how you can benefit from the new Social Finance Fund and millions in grant dollars to ready your organization to access social finance?
If yes, you should register for the Social Finance Investment Readiness Exploration webinar! Come learn about social finance and explore how your organization can use it to enhance your impact.
Event details:
In this webinar, you will explore:
The webinar will be highly interactive and you are encouraged to ask questions to explore the topic further!
If you have any questions, please reach out via email.
Budgets are practical expressions of government priorities, but most of us don’t really know how they are made, or that spending decisions and reporting are part of a year-round cycle. This workshop introduces the budget process, and works through the activities that take place throughout the year from planning to proposing to spending to reporting and evaluating. We’ll discuss who does what, including the role of Treasury Board and staff in the Treasury Board Secretariat; the Department of Finance; line departments; and Cabinet. We’ll also address the question of how Manitobans’ concerns get reflected in the budget process, and in the final budget.
Learning Objectives:
About the Facilitators
Karine Levasseur, Ph.D
Karine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. She earned her PhD. in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. While Karine has many research interests, she is particularly interested in how governments in Canada relate (or do not relate) to voluntary organizations. Her research explores how voluntary organizations can become more meaningfully involved in public policy development, and not just resigned to implement public policy decisions made without their involvement.
Andrea Rounce, Ph.D
Andrea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. She teaches and researches in public administration. A primary focus of Andrea’s research is government's use of public opinion research and consultation; public sector governance; and research methodology. Emphasizing the need to bridge theory and practice, Andrea also works with public sector organizations on policy and governance issues while working collaboratively on community engagement and education projects around elections and voting.
