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Economic and Social Rights Online Course

November 19 - December 16

About the Course:

The purpose of the course, is to build a growing ‘Community of Practice’ who can articulate and use human rights language in anti-poverty work.  The success of the last course confirmed the need for human rights education and the strength of the content presented. The course was described as “amazing”, “productive” and “relevant” with a few individuals noting they felt “enlightened” and “empowered” by the experience.  Participants felt more capable of articulating details of economic and social rights and felt they not only met the goals of the course, but also their personal goals as well. 
 
Leading human rights experts will be joining the course including:
  • Leilani Farha (CWP)
  • Bruce Porter (Social Rights Advocacy Centre)
  • Shelagh Day (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action)

More information:

  • The course is four weeks in length and will run from Monday, November 19 until Sunday, December 16
  • Modules will be launched weekly. Themes include:  Introduction to Economic and Social (ES) Rights, Poverty and ES Rights, Housing and ES Rights, the Right to Health, and Women and ES Rights
  • ES Rights experts will join discussions each week and help facilitate conversations
  • An online platform is used that allows for various discussions and that will hold the online resource library
  • Cost of the course is $75.00 (due by November 9th)
The course will require a commitment of 5 hours per week for reading required materials participation in discussion rooms, as well as attendance on two conference calls and participation in the pre and post evaluation process.  The weekly five-hour online commitment can be fulfilled at any time as the online classroom is open 24/7 including weekends.
 
We have room for 30 participants and will take names on a first-come-first-serve basis.  

Registration:

Please email Kizzy Paris at Canada Without Poverty by Wednesday November 7th to ensure your place in the course:  kizzy(at)cwp-csp.ca, or call 613.789.0096
 
*Please note that the course will not run without full registration.  Confirmation will be given no later than Friday November 9th.
 
If you have any questions please email or call me at 604 558 0252.

Exploring the intersection of the economic and social elements of co-operation

 

This webinar explores where the economic and business aspects of co-operatives intersect with the social aspects of co-operatives. In exploring these concurrent bottom lines, the speakers will examine co-operatives in the context of the social economy as well as exploring how co-operatives use social accounting to critically examine their social impact as an enterprise. 
  • Dr. J.J. McMurtry of York University and editor of the book Living Economics: Perspectives on Canada's Social Economy, will define the social economy (unpacking how these two concepts can be defined together) and how co-operatives can be defined therein.
  • Dr. Laurie Mook of Arizona State University and co-author of the book What Counts: social accounting for nonprofits and cooperatives, will describe concepts of social and sustainability accounting and describe how co-operatives balance this type of measurement and performance evaluation in tandem with economic and business evaluation.
Participants in the webinar will be welcomed to share examples and comments from their own experiences.
 
Learn more about the Speaker:
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Creating the Future of Your Community

Hildy Gottlieb is co-founder of Creating the Future and author of The Pollyanna Principles: Reinventing "Nonprofit Organizations" to Create the Future of Our World. Her writing has been seen in dozens of publications throughout the community benefit sector, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she hosts the monthly podcast, Making Change - interviewing change leaders from around the world. Join with Hildy as she talks about what it takes for the social sector to create a different future. In this podcast she will highlight her latest thinking and outline what it takes for organizations to think and act differently so that they can create change.

Evaluation for Advocacy and Systems Change

Kathy Brennan is the Director of Evaluation for Living Cities in New York. Kathy has 15 years of experience managing and evaluating nonprofit and philanthropic efforts. She is currently co-authoring the book Advocacy Evaluation - the first book that specifically addresses this new area of focus for evaluation efforts. Join with Kathy and Liz Weaver as they talk about the innovative work of Living Cities, Advocacy Evaluation and Systems Change. There will be an opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the interview. This will be an inspiring and engaging tele-learning.

Local Economic Development as if People and the Planet Mattered

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 10:00 - 11:00am EDT, the Inclusive Local Economies Program of the Metcalf Foundation presents a webinar entitled, Local Economic Development as if People and the Planet Mattered.
 
Elizabeth Cox works for the New Economics Foundation (nef), the UK’s largest “think and do” tank focused on improving quality of life by promoting innovative solutions to economic, environmental, and social issues.
 
Elizabeth will share nef’s approach to supporting local economic development in communities across the UK and internationally called Plugging the Leaks.  This approach moves beyond getting more money into the local economy through tourism, inward investment, or funding.  It re-generates the local economy from within, and takes advantage of the resources that a community already possesses.  A plugging the leaks approach is built around supporting community-based action towards developing a more sustainable local economy.  Elizabeth will be interviewed by Mary Rowe of the Municipal Arts Society of New York, and Metcalf Foundation Advisor.
 
This is the first in a new monthly webinar series focused on how we build resilient local economies.  It is a forum for communication, collaboration, and innovation focused on creating resilient local economies.  It is a initiative of the Metcalf Foundation and the Centre for City Ecology https://cityecology.net/
 

To register for this webinar please contact Heather Dunford at hdunford@metcalffoundation.com by Tuesday, October 2.

For more information about Plugging the Leaks please see www.pluggingtheleaks.org. To learn more about the New Economics Foundation go to www.neweconomics.org.
 

The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Metacalf website

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More About Elizabeth Cox

Elizabeth Cox is an economist who leads on nef’s UK and international local economic development work, and manages international partnerships.  Her work ranges from design and delivery of action research on enterprise and local economic development to support practical community action in the UK and internationally (BizFizz, Local Alchemy and Plugging the Leaks), developing approaches to help public bodies to embed social, economic and environmental outcomes throughout their commission process, to research on resilience.  New areas of research include developing a low carbon, high well-being economic development model, and developing with civic society organisations a global south hub network to support, to debate, and practically apply new economics in India and South Africa.
 
Prior to joining nef in 2003, Elizabeth worked as a policy advisor within the Ministry of Agriculture in Guyana for four years, and was responsible for the oversight of poverty alleviation programmes and the design of participatory monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen lecturing in economic development.

CWCF CoopZone Conference 2012

 

November 8-10
Ancaster, Ontario

 

The Canadian Worker Co-op Federation and CoopZone invite you to join us in Hamilton, Ontario for our Conference on Surviving and Thriving as a Worker Co-op and also the CWCF AGM, on November 8th - 10th.  There are also optional activities, mostly for CoopZone, on November 7th: an all-day workshop on the Co-op Index, and the first in-person meeting of the CoopZone Legal Network.
 
In this International Year of Co-ops when the federal Government has, appallingly, eliminated the Co-op Development Initiative, worker co-operators and co-operators generally need to figure out how to come together to support ourselves and support each other.  Come to this Conference to share ideas and learn techniques to help your co-op first of all survive, and then thrive. 
  • Take part in our new more participatory approach, with a focus on Financial Viability and Member Development!
  • Meet other worker co-operators and developers from across Canada!
  • Get inspired by other co-ops' stories!
  • Learn practical new tools!   
  • See the Canadian premiere of the Shift Change movie!
  • Help us honour Alain Roy, recipient of the Worker Co-op Merit Award!
Do not miss our keynote speakers Annanda DeSilva and Jack Lamon, from Come As You Are worker co-op in Toronto, the world's only co-operatively run sex shop.    

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