3:00pm to 4:00pm

Universities, colleges and institutes can play a much more significant role in the design and construction of much-needed social infrastructure In Canada and globally, including affordable housing, child care centres, women’s shelters and seniors’ care facilities. The most effective and sustainable way to do this is through authentic partnerships with non-profit organizations and community groups that mobilize the necessary local knowledge and public, private and philanthropic resources to implement these complex projects.

Register for the Community-Campus Partnerships for Social Infrastructure Webinar webinar

As leaders in this work, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of Winnipeg have valuable experience and methods to share, to spread information on innovative models and support their replication and adaptation across Canada and the world. Guided by our Moderator, Ted Jackson, our presenters—SFU President Andrew Petter and University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation Managing Director Sherman Kreiner—will address the following key questions:

• What kinds of social and green real estate projects are possible?
• How can we structure effective community-campus governance and project-management bodies?
• What combination of financial instruments and sources can be used to finance social infrastructure?

Webinar participants will be invited to pose their own questions online to the presenters before and during the webinar.

Visit the event website.

Mar 25 - Jul 14, 2019

Towards Co-operative CommonWealth is a master class in movement building for a new model of political economy that is sustainable, democratic, and socially just. Offered by the Synergia Institute and Athabasca University, it sets out the practical models and pathways for meaningful systems change at multiple levels. The goal: to better secure our basic needs for land, food, livelihood, social care, energy, finance and more in these increasingly difficult times.

The course is suitable for newcomers to social change work as well as veteran activists, practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers. Individuals on their own and people working for social change through organizations, networks, and movements can leverage the course material and the expertise of the Synergia team to advance their own projects and activist work locally.

Enrol for Towards Cooperative CommonWealth

The course is offered in two sections: Section 1 is 4 modules over 4 weeks starting March 25th, followed by a 4 week intellectual pause to catch your breath from April 22 till May 20th, and Section 2 starts another 4 Modules from May 20th to June 22.

Following the course, feedback from the Synergia team will be available for three weeks to promote application of course ideas & models to your own projects or work.

*The course is free at the certificate level. The cost of degree accreditation is $269 CAD.​

OBJECTIVES

• Outline and explain the problematic, and transformative vision.
• Discuss emerging food system alternatives and strategies for transitioning to just, sustainable food systems.
• Recognize the role of public policy and bottom-up innovation in renewable community energy.
• Become familiar with the interplay of assumptions, interests, power, and technology feeding the growing precariousness of livelihoods and the implications for human wellbeing, and to explore emerging sector-, policy-, and place-based alternatives.
• Outline the philosophy, rationale, and organizational forms of user-controlled models of health and social care.
• Discuss enclosure, and the alternatives of commons and land trusts.
• Describe community development finance and co-operative capital raising and their potential to secure democratic and socially directed investment for the common good.
• Synthesize key ideas and practices that define systemic transition.

Target Audience: We imagine that if you were attracted to this course, you will be someone who shares our general world view and vision, and wants to broaden and deepen it and join us and others to develop it. That is its principal purpose, but a secondary purpose is to link people and projects that share these views in practical ways. You are likely to be people who are already engaged in social change work in three crucial movements – co-operation, commons, and sustainability. Most are already actively working to make this world view a reality. You may be active in the environmental movement, human or animal rights, social equality and development, the solidarity economy, co-operative finance and alternative currencies; the Transition Movement, permaculture, local food, eco-villages, the digital commons, peer-to-peer and open educational resources, community energy or many others.

For more information about Synergia Institute visit: synergiainstitute.org

Course is offered by Athabasca University in collaboration with Synergia.

"System Change Not Climate Change" Banner photo is copyright (c) 2009 by Kris Krüg and made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.

United Way of Winnipeg Learning Centre
1st floor, 580 Main St.
CCEDNet Mbrs: $25 | Non-Members: $75

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Register for Purposing Our Stories: Making Marketable Content

Securing funding or donations for your non-profit, or marketing your social enterprise to build your client list is crucial to the success of your organization, but staff capacity is limited and you may feel like you're recycling the same grant application over and over again. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to explain all the good things your organization does, or share that work with others in a meaningful way.

Are you worried you're not standing out? Fear not! In this workshop, you'll learn the skills to identify the good stories your organization already has --even if you don't know it--and you'll learn how to utilize them over multiple platforms to create a stockpile of marketable material you can draw from and add to. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn to identify good stories your organization already has

• Understand how adapt stories across multiple platforms 

• Develop a stockpile of marketable material 

FACILITATOR

Sara Atnikov has a buffet of skills gleaned from over a decade working in the non-profit industry and as
a freelance writer. She’s worked in development, marketing, public relations and fundraising positions at Spence Neighbourhood Organization, LITE, The Manitoba Cooperative Association, Red River College, the U of W, CCPA, and Purpose Construction (formerly MGR). She also started and ran Workforce Staffing Solutions, a non-profit social enterprise.

As a freelancer, she’s worked for CBC in various capacities, including a news web writer and as a chase producer for local radio. She was an associate producer on the syndicated radio show Now or Never, and regularly contributes to CBC Arts.

Jessica Antony is a writer, editor, and educator. She has over a decade of experience in content creation, editing, and project management, having worked as the managing editor of a publishing company before starting her own consultancy, Anchor Editorial Services. 

In addition to teaching a writing course at the University of Winnipeg, she is a published author, freelance writer, and works with a number of clients ranging from marketing agencies to design companies to book publishers.

11:30am - 1:30pm
Assembly Room at The WestEnd Commons
641 St Matthews Ave.

Free Registration + Lunch Included

Please RSVP for Financing the Social Economy

Quebec’s social economy is a driver for the province’s economy overall. For several decades, the Chantier de l’économie sociale has been a key umbrella group organizing social economy actors, community economic developers, social movement activists, cooperative developers, and many others to develop a robust set of resources for non-profits, charities, social enterprises, and cooperatives.

Nancy Neamtan was the leader of the Chantier for much of its history. Having recently stepped down, she is working across Canada to document and share the learning of this key region. She joins us March 19 to explain the social finance landscape in Quebec including Réseau d’investissement social du Québec (RISQ) and the Chantier de l’économie sociale Trust.

Nancy has said that one of the key lessons learned is that the movement for a social economy made sure that everyone - non-profits, community developers, and enterprises - understood themselves as economic actors. They learned to understand the role of money and finance in their work. Now, we have the chance to build our local knowledge.

Join CCEDNet Manitoba and Social Innovation Canada for this event, part of a developing series, Springboard into Social Finance, to help us organize for the federal government’s emerging Social Innovation and Social Finance strategy.

Interested in more? Check out Nancy Neamtan’s recent webinar