Tuesday (Feb 9) 12:00-2:30pm Eastern Time

Wednesday (Feb 10) 9am-5pm Eastern Time
Optional one-hour consultation session any time between

Thursday (Feb 11) 12:00-2:30pm Eastern Time

Are you leading or part of an organization or company that prioritizes...

• small business recovery and succession, 
• social enterprise and co-operative development,  
• small business acquisitions, 
• small business or social enterprise financing/financial services, 
• economic development and business retention and attraction, 
• small business or non-profit accounting, 
• small business or non-profit law, 
• small business or social enterprise management services or consulting, 
• community economic development and engagement services, or 
• impact investing or social finance? 

Apply to attend the LAUNCH workshop

Are you interested in rapidly building and testing a new product, service, or program for your community, client, or membership base supported by expertise in design and social acquisition systems and doing this alongside peer professionals/organizations? 

The Legacy Leadership Lab is running a workshop series as part of a research project intended to generate new tools, partnerships, and research to support SME succession and social purpose conversions, and enhance the community's understanding of capacity, gaps and challenges facing SMEs with potential to be investment-ready social purpose organizations, as well as the broader ecosystem. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness Program, L3 will host a Design Workshop in February 2021 that can help you rapidly develop ideas, prototype, and test an innovative and ground-breaking initiative that addresses an opportunity or challenge for advancing social acquisitions in Canada. Attending the workshops will mean you are a participant in the study while you are building and testing a new social acquisition solution.

Learn more

1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern Time

Whether you’re a social enterprise, non-profit program or collaborative initiative, keeping track of data can be a challenge! What’s important to collect? How do you bring data together to gain insights about what you’re doing, make good decisions and show your impact and value? The Demonstrating Value (DV) framework is a simple and practical approach that can help.

In this 1 ½ hour, hands-on session, you’ll learn more about the DV framework and how to apply it. Using practical examples, we’ll walk through activities in the free-to-download DV guide: Performance and Impact Measurement: Improving your Practices. Time will be set aside in the workshop for your questions and open discussion about the practical issues, challenges and solutions in measurement and evaluation.

Register for Measurement that Makes Sense

The session is facilitated by:

Cathy Lang, Consultant in Social Innovation and Nonprofit Sustainability (C. Lang Consulting)
Karen Gelb, Research, Evaluation, Knowledge Mobilization Consultant
Bryn Sadownik, Consultant, Evaluation and Learning (Vancity Community Foundation)

This workshop is directed to social purpose organizations (e.g. social enterprise, non-profit organization, impact business) and is suitable for executive directors, program staff, social entrepreneurs and others directly involved in running organizations. Feel free to share this invite link with others you think would benefit. Before the session, we’ll reach out to you with a few short activities that you can do ahead of time to get the most of this session.

12pm to 1pm Eastern Time

Final weekly session takes place on February 3, 2021: Creating an online marketing framework for the force of good

Marketing can be used to achieve your business goals and be a force of good in society. Learn how to build an effective online marketing framework to influence and drive awareness.

Social Entrepreneur & Educator

Kevin Black: VP Business Development, Lee & Maria's
Ran Goel: CEO & Founder, Fresh City Farms

Register for Purpose & Profit

10:00am - 11:00am Pacific

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Whether we act as sounding boards for one another, offer connections and advice, or develop full-on partnerships, we are stronger when we work together!

Working together can help us:
•    Get fresh ideas
•    Reduce duplication and maximize impact
•    Develop partnerships and new initiatives

This campfire chat will provide you with an opportunity to explore the overlaps between your policy priorities and those of others and figure out ways to complement one another’s policy efforts in an informal and supportive peer-to-peer environment.  
Please join us on February 11!

Register for Campfire Chat: Exploring Common Ground and Working Together

10:00am - 11:00am Pacific

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Community Economic Development (CED) initiatives are, by definition, local solutions to local issues.  Many of us working at the community level are not directly involved in policy and advocacy work on a provincial or national scale.  But, whether we like it or not, our work can be impacted by political forces at play globally, nationally, and provincially.  If we want to make lasting change, policy and advocacy work is vital.  

If you know change is needed but you don’t know where to start, or if you are new to the policy and advocacy realm, then this webinar is for you.  We will discuss public policy and how it works, and go over the key components of an advocacy strategy.  This webinar will be applicable whether your work is at the local, provincial, or national level.

Please join us on January 14!

Resources:

PowerPoint Presentation