10am to 11am Eastern Time

Are you interested in earning discretionary income?

The Earning Capacity Project will engage up to 30 community service organizations across Ontario to develop their social enterprise capacity. Successful applicants will have a committed team, marketable administrative capacity in areas including IT, HR, marketing, space, and finance, and will be ready for (or already involved in) earned revenue activities related to these service areas. A Project Advisory Committee (PAC), and social enterprise and evaluation consultants will contribute their knowledge and expertise in small business and nonprofit social enterprise development, and help in documenting results.

Register now for this Introductory Webinar

Background

The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP) has partnered with Job Skills and the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET), Ontario for this project running through September 2016. This collaborative will be offering focused resources to assist committed nonprofits in developing earned income via service contracts with other nonprofits and businesses.

Who should attend?

Representatives from diverse community service agencies across Ontario who fit the project applicant profile (see below*) are invited to participate in the webinar. Organizations focused on:  employment & training, arts & culture, children & youth, community development, education, environmental, agriculture, health, First Nations organizations, immigrant (settlement) services, recreation, and social service organizations are welcome to register.
 
*Project Applicants must be willing to put together a committed team, will have marketable administrative capacity such as IT, HR, space, and/or finance, and will be near ready for, or already involved in, earned revenue activities related to these service areas.

Why Attend?

Following the webinar, organizations can apply for additional supports:

1. A Readiness Assessment: to assess organizational readiness for enterprising activity
2. Enterprise Development Institutes: 1.5-day offsite events, each engaging teams from 6 – 8 committed nonprofits
3. Follow-Up Supports: webinars and individualized coaching over six months
4. Regional Peer Practitioner Network: practitioners will support each other, and share resources
5. Ongoing Learning: with support from an external evaluation consultant

Benefits will include:

• opportunities to capitalize on existing organizational assets
• targeted support and mentoring to advance organizational earning capacity, and
• development of earned income streams via enterprise plans and service contracts with other nonprofits and small businesses.

The supports provided through the Earning Capacity Project are valued at over $3,000 per organization, not including travel assistance to attend the training institutes. For successful applicants there will be a fee of $300 charged for each organizational team (up to 3 people) to offset the costs of institutes.

Application deadline extended until September 11th

10am to 11am Eastern Time

Are you interested in earning discretionary income?

The Earning Capacity Project will engage up to 30 community service organizations across Ontario to develop their social enterprise capacity. Successful applicants will have a committed team, marketable administrative capacity in areas including IT, HR, marketing, space, and finance, and will be ready for (or already involved in) earned revenue activities related to these service areas. A Project Advisory Committee (PAC), and social enterprise and evaluation consultants will contribute their knowledge and expertise in small business and nonprofit social enterprise development, and help in documenting results.

Register now for this Introductory Webinar

Background

The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP) has partnered with Job Skills and the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET), Ontario for this project running through September 2016. This collaborative will be offering focused resources to assist committed nonprofits in developing earned income via service contracts with other nonprofits and businesses.

Who should attend?

Representatives from diverse community service agencies across Ontario who fit the project applicant profile (see below*) are invited to participate in the webinar. Organizations focused on:  employment & training, arts & culture, children & youth, community development, education, environmental, agriculture, health, First Nations organizations, immigrant (settlement) services, recreation, and social service organizations are welcome to register.
 
*Project Applicants must be willing to put together a committed team, will have marketable administrative capacity such as IT, HR, space, and/or finance, and will be near ready for, or already involved in, earned revenue activities related to these service areas.

Why Attend?

Following the webinar, organizations can apply for additional supports:

1. A Readiness Assessment: to assess organizational readiness for enterprising activity
2. Enterprise Development Institutes: 1.5-day offsite events, each engaging teams from 6 – 8 committed nonprofits
3. Follow-Up Supports: webinars and individualized coaching over six months
4. Regional Peer Practitioner Network: practitioners will support each other, and share resources
5. Ongoing Learning: with support from an external evaluation consultant

Benefits will include:

• opportunities to capitalize on existing organizational assets
• targeted support and mentoring to advance organizational earning capacity, and
• development of earned income streams via enterprise plans and service contracts with other nonprofits and small businesses.

The supports provided through the Earning Capacity Project are valued at over $3,000 per organization, not including travel assistance to attend the training institutes. For successful applicants there will be a fee of $300 charged for each organizational team (up to 3 people) to offset the costs of institutes.

Application deadline extended until September 11th
 

1pm Eastern

Artscape’s work involves clustering creative people together in real estate projects that serve the needs of the arts and cultural community and advance multiple public policy objectives, private development interests, community and neighbourhood aspirations and philanthropic missions. Based in Toronto, Artscape currently operates nine projects including the award-winning Daniels Spectrum, LEED Gold certified Artscape Wychwood Barns and our newest community cultural hub Artscape Youngplace.  Working with communities to identify unique and diverse assets our projects cluster arts, cultural and environmental organizations as well as individual artists into affordable well-designed spaces. Artscape’s projects are embraced and activated by the communities they serve, delivering shared value and positive social, economic and environmental impacts.

Artscape has a number of exciting new projects under development in Toronto including a social enterprise event venue in the heart of the Entertainment District, a new community cultural hub which is part of a larger revitalization initiative in the Weston neighbourhood, as well as Artscape Launchpad – a cutting-edge centre for creative sector entrepreneurship.

Join this free webinar to gain insight and learnings from Artscape’s unique approach in cultural space development as a not-for-profit urban development organization, affordable housing provider, and thought leader in Creative Placemaking practice.

You Will Learn

• About Artscape’s evolution as an organization over its 29 year history
• About Artscape’s from the ground up approach to Creative Placemaking
• About tools for advancing cultural space development projects
• About working with partners across public, private and non-profit sectors
• How Artscape uses community engagement and public process to build successful projects

Register for the Partnership and Collaboration webinar

About the Speaker

Pru Robey is a passionate advocate for the transformative impact the arts and culture have on the lives of individuals and communities. Throughout her career, the development of innovative, multi-sector approaches to support cultural sector development, creative economy activation and sustainable urban regeneration has been a centerpiece of her work. Pru has over 30 years of experience as a consultant, researcher, manager, promoter and funder in the arts, culture and creative industries in Canada and the UK. As Vice President and Creative Placemaking Lab Director at Toronto-based Artscape, Pru takes the lead in new project research and development and on major research initiatives; directs a suite of programs and services designed to build the capacity of communities internationally to undertake creative placemaking; and advises communities internationally on strategies to support city-building through the arts. She designed and teaches Canada’s only undergraduate course in Creative Placemaking for the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Placemaking Leadership Council.

SOURCE: Artscape

Courtyard by Marriott
Downtown Toronto

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Here’s a snapshot of what the Directors' Forum (DF) Executive is planning for you:

• A full day-and-a-half event, starting earlier and ending earlier
• For the first time ever, the DF and CUSOURCE will be partnering on a joint session during the Forum, open to all attendees and worth a ½ continuing education credit
• The 4th annual Board Chairs’ session, open to Chairs, Vice-Chairs and Committee Chairs of credit unions, caisses populaires and co-operatives
• A welcome Cocktail and Networking reception (Thursday evening)
• The 2nd annual Banquet and Fundraiser, hosted by the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada (Friday evening)
• A variety of plenary sessions with more facilitated discussion and audience participation
• A convenient, downtown location with newly renovated, modern accommodations

For more information visit www.ontario.coop/directors

The Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada (CDF) is once again hosting a gala dinner in conjunction with the 31st Annual Directors’ Forum. This exciting event will take place on the Friday evening, October 2nd, at the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Toronto.

The event will provide a fantastic opportunity to mix & mingle with the key decision makers of co-operators and credit unions across the province, as well as offer a chance to reconnect with old friends, and form new relationships. Guests will indulge in delicious food, enjoy captivating live entertainment and will be able to bid on exciting items from around the world in both a silent and live auction.

Tickets are $100 + HST per person, with proceeds supporting CDF’s domestic and international co-op and credit union development programs around the world. You do not have to attend the Directors’ Forum to participate in this event, but pre-registration is required - and based on the feedback of last year’s 100+ attendees, you will not be disappointed!

CDF is currently looking for sponsors of this event. Sponsorship opportunities allow you to show your support for CDF while gaining visibility within the co-operative and credit union movement. You can also make a donation to our silent or live auction. For further information, please contact Andrea Shillolo at andrea.shillolo at coopscanada.coop or at 888.266.7677 ext. 219.

Co-op week is the opportunity for Canadian co-operative and credit union members to celebrate the fact that they have collectively helped to build this country.  Co-op Week is recognition of their continuing contributions at home and abroad.

Co-op Week is always celebrated during the same week as International Credit Union Day, which is the third Thursday in October of each year.

Co-op Week 2015 will take place from October 11-17.

This year the theme is Our Co-op Advantage. Share your views on the co-operative advantage with others across the country by contacting Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada. Don't forget to share your event dates and event photos and show your co-op pride this October.

For more information visit Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada

The History of Co-op Week in Canada

Co-op Week has been celebrated by francophones throughout Canada since 1958. In 1981 celebrations were held among anglophone co-ops in the Maritimes and Saskatchewan. The event went national in 1982 with the encouragement of the Co-operative Union of Canada, a predecessor of the Canadian Co-operative Association.

Co-op Week appears to be a uniquely Canadian phenomenon. In the US, October is Co-op Month, and the International Co-operative Alliance and United Nations have an International Day of Co-operatives on the first Saturday in July.

International Credit Union Day, co-ordinated by the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), has been celebrated on the third Thursday of October since 1948.