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Webinar: Intro to Social Enterprise and Earned Revenue Strategies for Nonprofits

 

About this Webinar:

  • Introduce participants to the concept and language of social enterprise
  • Build a basic understanding of the social enterprise development field
  • Provide participants with information about services and resources available to support social enterprise development

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About the Series:

  • Is your nonprofit interested in generating funds that aren’t designated to a particular project?
  • Is your organization already exploring business ideas?
  • Are you a social entrepreneur with an idea for a community enterprise?
  • Are you wondering if your business idea is feasible?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then our Social Enterprise Webinar Series is for you!
 
Social Enterprise includes the many earned revenue methods used by nonprofit organizations to generate their own income in support of their mission. This series is sponsored by the Rural Social Enterprise Constellation of the Ontario Nonprofit Network and will be of particular interest to rural nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs.
 
Sign up for one or all of these webinars and learn from our social enterprise experts and the effective practice of other enterprising nonprofits. Host the webinars for a group of people in one location and benefit from sharing with your peers while paying the price of one connection.
 
Included in the webinar series is a follow-up online question and answer session. We’ll give you a week to ponder then we’ll open up the “virtual meeting room” again so you can ask your questions online.

Featured Webinars:

February 27
Intro to Social Enterprise and Earned Revenue Strategies for Nonprofits: (presented in English at 10:30am and French at 1:00pm)

March 6
Intro to Social Enterprise Q&A: (English and French)
 
March 13
Business Idea Exploration for Nonprofits: So you’ve got an idea for a business that could generate revenue for your nonprofit. Now what?
 
March 20
Business Idea Exploration Q&A
 
March 27
Social Enterprise Feasibility: The initial assessment of your business idea was positive. Now it’s time to figure out if it really is feasible!
 
April 3
Social Enterprise Feasibility Q&A

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Logistics: 

  • Webinars will run from 10:30am-12:00pm (French webinar on February 27, 1:00pm- 2:30pm)
  • Q&A sessions will run from 10:30am-11:30am (French 1:00pm-2:00pm)
  • Cost - $25.00 +HST per Webinar (includes the associated Q&A session)
  • Sign up for all 3 English webinars for $60.00 or all 4 for $80.00!
Click here for more information about the Rural Social Enterprise Constellation.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Housing as an Asset-Building Platform: Webinar

 

Register today for the latest co-presented webinar from CFED & NeighborWorks America: 

Housing as an Asset-Building Platform

Friday, March 1, 2013
3:30 pm EST / 2:30 pm CST / 1:30 pm MST / 12:30 pm PST

In response to demand for a reprise of the Assets Learning Conference session, Housing as an Asset-Building Platform, this webinar will present innovative strategies to integrate asset building and other financial services into affordable housing programs. As families across the country struggle to become financially secure, housing programs are looking to place-based, asset-building strategies as a way to help build up communities so that people stay and invest in the places where they live. In this session, you will learn how innovative housing authorities, intermediaries and affordable housing developers are helping low-income families build assets through savings opportunities, renter equity and other unique approaches.

Presenters include: 

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Did you know you can listen through your computer? Connect your speakers or a headset to your computer. For more information, contact Jennifer Medina
 
About NeighborWorks America 
NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities by providing access to homeownership and to safe and affordable rental housing. In the last five years, NeighborWorks organizations have generated $20 billion in reinvestment in these communities. NeighborWorks America is the nation’s leading trainer of community development and affordable housing professionals.     
 

2013 Northern Housing Conference: Housing Outside the Box

 

Yukon Housing Corporation, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada are pleased to host the 2013 Northern Housing Conference: Housing Outside the Box.
 
Join us March 26th and 27th, 2013 in Whitehorse, Yukon for a two-day event that will provide decision makers, designers, developers, regulators, builders and housing proponents insights into innovative ‘outside of the box’ solutions for meeting the housing needs in Canada’s North.

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Who Should Attend?

The Housing Outside the Box conference will benefit anyone who is involved in trying to satisfy housing needs, or providing housing or shelter-related services. Elected officials, government administrators of housing and family counseling services, financial administrators, NGO’s assisting households, designers, contractors, housing providers, developers, and interested individuals.
 

Why Attend?

The need for adequate and safe housing continues to be one of the single most important concerns facing northern communities. Time-honored solutions are failing to satisfy today’s need for safe, secure, attainable and affordable housing, especially for those most in need.
 
This conference will showcase innovative approaches to the provision of housing and housing services which have been successful in other locations. The presentations will include:
 
Examples of housing successes along the housing continuum made possible through community initiated and operated initiatives;
 
New approaches to the provision of low-cost rental housing and sustainability of low-cost rental housing stock;
 
New information on the cost of affordable housing options; as well as an overview of innovative dwelling types.
The intention is to inspire northern planners and decision makers and provide them with concrete successes on which to base “Made in the North” solutions.

Social Return on Investment: Capturing Value and Values (Webinar recording)

When it comes to understanding the value of community initiatives, describing activities and outputs tells a shallow tale.  Funders, stakeholders and constituents increasingly want to know what difference you’ve made – the impact and value of those activities.  Social Return on Investment (SROI) provides a methodological framework to better understand and enhance communications on the social value of multidimensional community interventions. 

BACKGROUND

Social Return on Investment (SROI) is a growing evaluation methodology that seeks to move the assessment process from a focus on cost alone to one that focuses on value.  By assigning financial proxies (monetary value) to social, environmental and economic outcomes, SROI creates a more complete understanding of the value generated by an initiative and can help build stronger communications (including business cases) for a wide range of community investments.

This session will introduce the SROI approach, provide some examples of its use in Canada, and outline the increasing use of SROI by agencies and funders to understand and communicate the value of their work and investments. 

PRESENTER

  • Anne Miller, SiMPACT Strategy Group
    As one of the first SROI accredited practitioners in Canada, Anne leads the SROI Initiative within SiMPACT Strategy Group and is involved in both the SROI Canada Network and the SROI International Network.  She has worked on over 20 SROI analyses across Canada and carried out evaluation, research, and/or SROI work in the fields of justice, indigenous peoples studies, social housing and homelessness, community development, and public health.

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2013 Canadian Responsible Investment Conference

Join us at the 2013 Canadian Responsible Investment Conference

Monday, June 17 – Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel
The Canadian Responsible Investment Conference is the only national event devoted to socially responsible investing. Of particular interest to institutional investors, financial advisors, investment trustees, portfolio managers, SRI fund representatives and ESG researchers and consultants, the conference continues to grow in attendance each year.
What our 2012 delegates thought …..
  • 96% found conference content appropriate and informative
  • 97% agreed the conference was well organized
  • 88% would recommend the conference to others
We expect 350+ delegates in Vancouver. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, contact Eugene Ellmen at ellmen@socialinvestment.ca before January 18, 2013.

2013 Conference flyer

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From Microcredit to Microfinance: Grameen 2.0? (Webinar recording)

In recent years, and especially since Mohamad Yunus won the Nobel Prize in 2008, microcredit has become widely used on every continent.  According to its proponents, it can reduce poverty levels for large numbers of people, particularly women.  But there is a growing awareness that not only is microcredit not a panacea, in some cases investors are even making money off the backs of the poor, and indebtedness is growing. 

At the same time, CED and social economy organizations in Canada and around the world are developing approaches that prioritizes the financial needs (credit, savings and insurance) of the poorest in our society while increasing their control over their own development.  These approaches allow users to become members and owners of their institution.  This webinar will present two mutuals, one in Guinea and one in Québec.  

The Artisinal Fishers Savings and Loan Mutual of Guinea (MECREPAG) is an innovative financial institution that provides accessible credit to small-scale entrepreneurs from the savings of local residents, in a structure that is locally owned. 

The Microfinance Mutual (Québec), a project of the Fonds d’emprunt Québec, was created by Bill 201 that Québec’s National Assembly adopted in December.  The credit, savings and insurance mutual is the first of its kind in Canada. 

PRESENTERS

  • Emilio López: Consultant and Analyst, Fonds d’emprunt Québec  
  • Yvon Poirier: Chair, CCEDNet International Committee.  Yvon has been extensively involved in international collaborations and recently spent a week with MECREPAG’s Director as part of a Uniterra-sponsored study tour.

WEBINAR RECORDING

SUPPORT

This session, part of the Canadian CED Network’s International Committee webinar series, is free thanks to a partnership with Uniterra

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