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This webinar will discuss key considerations relevant to board members and senior staff members of non-profit organizations when considering debt financing and planning for earned income activities. It will also explore publicly available resources that can help board and staff members to understand and navigate these challenges.
Moderator: Ann Lockhart, Manager of Programs, Futurpreneur Canada
This webinar is presented to you by Futurpreneur Canada in partnership with the Trico Charitable Foundation
10am Pacific Time / 12pm Central Time / 2pm Atlantic Time
Rural youth face many hurdles in the transition from school to work. A fast changing economy means that youth are likely to face more career changes than their parents. In order to retain and attract youth rural places need to better understand youth and the challenges they face, as well as potential options for how to support them.
This webinar will explore labour force conditions and trends related to rural youth in Canada and will present research undertaken in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia focused on better understanding rural youth school-to-work transitions. Possible policy and program approaches to supporting youth as they transition into the workforce will be discussed. Ray Bollman’s presentation will explore factors driving Canada’s rural economy, and rural youth employment. Dianne Looker will report on some longitudinal research undertaken in Ontario and Nova Scotia that asked 1200 youth (age 17) their plans to stay or leave, and at age 22 and 29 why they made various geographic moves and where they’d like to live. Doctoral Candidate, Sarah Breen, will present findings from a study recently conducted in the Kootenay region of BC that explores what action is needed to address youth training, engagement, and retention on a regional scale.
Rural Youth & Labour Force: Exploring Conditions and Trends (Ray Bollman)
Rural and Urban Youth: Leaving, Staying, Moving (Dianne Looker)
Youth in Transition: Obstacles and Potential in the Kootenays (Sarah Breen)
Ray Bollman retired from Statistics Canada in 2011 where he was the founding editor of their Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletins. He has recently prepared FactSheets for the Rural Development Institute, Brandon University and the Focus on Rural Ontario FactSheets for the Rural Ontario Institute. Ray is currently a Research Affiliate with Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute.
Dianne Looker, Professor Emerita from Acadia and Mount Saint Vincent Universities, has studied youth for her entire academic career. She has undertaken several longitudinal surveys focusing on youth in a changing society and has provided expert advice to numerous policy groups and government departments. Her recent work looks at the ways in which the shift to a more information society has affected equity for sub-groups of youth in Canada and abroad. Currently Dr. Looker is writing a book on rural youth, examining why some youth do or do not move to urban areas, while many others remain in their home communities for a host of reasons not well understood by policy-makers and academics.
Sarah-Patricia Breen is a PhD candidate with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. She has a range of research interests including rural economic development, youth engagement, infrastructure, and resilient communities. Sarah is an Executive Board Member with the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Sarah has lived and worked across the country and is currently enjoying life in the Kootenays. Sarah is currently a research assistant at the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute.
SOURCE: Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute
TREC is a non-profit incubator of renewable energy co-ops and a service provider to the community power and social finance spaces. TREC provides financial administration services and investor/member management services to rapidly growing organisations in these fields. These services bring our 17 years of experience in raising community financing and developing and operating projects to our clients, providing the expertise and back-end support growing organisations need to achieve their community and business objectives.
Purpose Capital is seeking a Director of Impact Advisory Services to lead its next phase of growth in impact investing, and to manage and grow an internationally competitive advisory service. Reporting to the Managing Director, this individual will be responsible for leading all aspects of the Impact Advisory service, including strategy development and execution, business development, client relationships, project delivery, and thought leadership.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), in collaboration with Tamarack, is hosting 20 workshops to discuss the opportunities and challenges of Collective Impact. Tamarack is one of Canada’s leading organizations that help people to collaborate, co-generate knowledge and achieve collective impact on complex community issues. Together, OTF and Tamarack will host day-long sessions in 16 cities across Ontario from March 23 to April 15, 2016.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation is hosting a free workshop in Mount Hope to discuss the promises and challenges of Collective Impact in collaboration with Tamarack, one of Canada’s most established thought leaders on this approach to solving entrenched social issues. The day-long session will happen on Friday April 15.
The workshops are intended for the community groups that:
You can register by clicking register on this page. Seats are limited. Please RSVP!
For your information, the venue for this workshop is fully accessible.
We are also offering sessions in French available here.
