1pm Eastern (10am Pacific, 2pm Atlantic)

Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI) is a non-profit planning and development agency charged with revitalization of Detroit's Woodward Corridor. MDI is involved in over 30 collaborative projects and programs that address the challenges and opportunities of the greater Midtown Detroit community.

Over the last decade, MDI and its predecessor organization, the University Cultural Center Association, have raised $56 million for a variety of initiatives including the Midtown Greenway Loop, restoration and conversion of six historic homes into a boutique hotel, the Woodward Avenue Streetscape Enhancement project, the creation of the Sugar Hill Arts District, the construction of two community gardens and a Green Alley, the renovation of many commercial facades throughout the district, and a matching grants security enhancement program for property and business owners.

This webinar will explore how MDI works as an effective non-profit shaping the revitalization of Midtown Detroit and how its successful initiatives are leveraging creative placemaking practice at different scales to achieve positive returns across the district.

You Will Learn

• How creative placemaking is informing and shaping Detroit’s revitalization
• How MDI’s different projects have succeeded and why
• How Midtown Detroit makes decisions in a context of seemingly endless opportunities
• Midtown Detroit’s key tools and strategies in project and community development
• Building mixed-income housing, commercial, and arts-related uses on vacant properties; transforming underutilized/unsafe spaces into community assets
• How MDI builds stakeholder confidence and partnerships in creative placemaking projects that achieve multiple bottom lines

Register for The Revitalization of Detroit and the Non-Profit that Could

About the Speakers

Susan T. Mosey has been the Executive Director of Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI) in Detroit, Michigan for twenty seven years. This non-profit organization is responsible for community development, marketing, real estate, small business development and arts programming within Detroit’s University Cultural Center and New Center districts – an area now known as Midtown. MDI also manages public space maintenance and security initiatives for the district. Projects that have been undertaken by the organization under her direction include public improvements such as new streetscapes and park development, greenway planning and construction, and residential and commercial real estate development and management. MDI’s newest initiative is the Live Midtown Residential Incentive Program that encourages employees of the anchors to move to Midtown. The organization also produces a number of signature arts events, including Art X Detroit, DLECTRICITY and Noel Night.

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

12:00pm - 1:30pm Eastern Time

This is an information webinar for those who are thinking about taking one of the courses through the CoopZone On-line Training Program. This webinar is open to anyone. 

Please RSVP to Hazel Corcoran (hazel@canadianworker.coop) by the end of the day on June 14th. You will receive the dial-in information by the start of the day of the call. (If you do not receive it by then, please write again at that time.) 

CoopZone offers various levels of training:

• The Introduction to Co-op Development course is appropriate for people interested in understanding the types and roles of co-ops and the basic co-op development process but who will not be active developers; it lasts half as many weeks as Foundations, and it runs from late October through March; 
• The Foundations Program course lasts for one year (mid-October - May).  This level is designed for individuals who are in the position of advising groups interested in exploring the creation of a co-operative enterprise;
• The Advanced Program lasts for two years and both years will be offered each year if there is sufficient demand. This level is designed for people who seek to provide full development services to co-operatives.

All of these on-line courses are designed to fit around a full-time job (a few hours per week). There is a new Course Director, Eric Tusz-King. Experienced co-op developers provide mentoring to students.

Learn more about the CoopZone program and how to apply

Download the brochure

Here's what some of the students have had to say:

"The course is concise, informative and interactive. Mentors and course director are very knowledgeable, skilled, experienced, approachable and helpful. The readings and tools were very useful." ~ Billy Granger, SEED Winnipeg.

"I would absolutely recommend the CoopZone program to anybody interested. The course is pretty amazing in the way that it creates a common community amongst us aspiring co-op developers and several fully established and tremendously experienced ones. The instructors are great, and the mentoring system gives me the chance to have hours of one-on-one time with an expert in my desired field." ~ Joel Ratcliffe, Ontario.

"The Advanced Co-op Developer training has enabled me to connect with other Co-op Developers and a Mentor which allowed me to apply what I am learning directly to the groups and projects I am working on, in real time. I would recommend this program for anyone interested in Co-op Development as we are often working alone or in small teams in communities; the course allows you to feel part of a co-op team!" ~ Amanda Hachey, CEC-NB

12:30pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time

This is an information webinar for those who are thinking about taking one of the courses through the CoopZone On-line Training Program. This webinar is open to anyone. 

Please RSVP to Hazel Corcoran (hazel@canadianworker.coop) by the end of the day on June 23rd. You will receive the dial-in information by the start of the day of the call. (If you do not receive it by then, please write again at that time.) 

CoopZone offers various levels of training:

• The Introduction to Co-op Development course is appropriate for people interested in understanding the types and roles of co-ops and the basic co-op development process but who will not be active developers; it lasts half as many weeks as Foundations, and it runs from late October through March; 
• The Foundations Program course lasts for one year (mid-October - May).  This level is designed for individuals who are in the position of advising groups interested in exploring the creation of a co-operative enterprise;
• The Advanced Program lasts for two years and both years will be offered each year if there is sufficient demand. This level is designed for people who seek to provide full development services to co-operatives.

All of these on-line courses are designed to fit around a full-time job (a few hours per week). There is a new Course Director, Eric Tusz-King. Experienced co-op developers provide mentoring to students.

Learn more about the CoopZone program and how to apply

Download the brochure

Here's what some of the students have had to say:

"The course is concise, informative and interactive. Mentors and course director are very knowledgeable, skilled, experienced, approachable and helpful. The readings and tools were very useful." ~ Billy Granger, SEED Winnipeg.

"I would absolutely recommend the CoopZone program to anybody interested. The course is pretty amazing in the way that it creates a common community amongst us aspiring co-op developers and several fully established and tremendously experienced ones. The instructors are great, and the mentoring system gives me the chance to have hours of one-on-one time with an expert in my desired field." ~ Joel Ratcliffe, Ontario.

"The Advanced Co-op Developer training has enabled me to connect with other Co-op Developers and a Mentor which allowed me to apply what I am learning directly to the groups and projects I am working on, in real time. I would recommend this program for anyone interested in Co-op Development as we are often working alone or in small teams in communities; the course allows you to feel part of a co-op team!" ~ Amanda Hachey, CEC-NB

Let's face it:  Demonstrating impact is critical when making the case for community programs to funders, stakeholders and policy makers. 

But it can also be very hard to do.  Community organizations tend to find the process of impact measurement complicated and expensive. There is no silver bullet, but strengthening evaluation capacity with a range of strategies, such as Social Return on Investment, can help us improve the effectiveness of what we do and enhance the case for support. 

To strengthen the evaluation and impact measurement capacity of our members, CCEDNet has partnered with CanadaMeasures Initiative (CMI) to offer affordable access to a powerful Social Return on Investment platform. 

CMI is an project of Social Asset Measurement (SAM) and the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci).  It brings together 3ci’s ten plus years of expertise in impact measurement, and SAM’s impact measurement software, the Social Return Intelligence platform (SRI).  SRI has been reviewed and accepted by the UK based international SROI Network, and has been funded by the National Research Council of Canada. 

Participants in CMI receive educational webinars and are walked through the process of creating their own impact measurement framework. They are then able to access the SRI software to continuously report on their impact.

Regular costs for the CMI program are $2,000 for the first year, and $500 in subsequent years.  But in this special offer, CCEDNet members are eligible for a 12%-18% discount. Not a member?  Find out more about the leading Canadian movement for inclusive and sustainable community economies, and join us!

If you want to strengthen your evaluation capacity and try out SROI or other outcomes frameworks, CMI might be right for you. 

Find Out More

• Watch the recording of the informational webinar that was held January 10th.
• Go to cmi.socialassets.org to take CMI's free survey for a customized recommendation of the type of reporting best suited to you, and a workplan for implementing measurement
• For questions or more information, contact Anshula via the CMI website, or email at anshula [at] socialassets.org

Background Information

• CanadaMeasures - How It Works information package
• CCEDNet's compilation of Evaluation and SROI resources

8:30am to 1:30pm
Springfield Golf & Country Club

Registration and networking opens at 8:30am, The AGM will run from 9:15am - 12:30pm followed by lunch. Please arrive early to ensure enough time to register and network before the AGM begins promptly at 9:30am. A draft agenda for the day can be found here!

Register now for On Co-op's AGM

ELECTIONS

There will be three At-large seats and one Youth Director seat up for election at our 2015 AGM.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Shawn Murphy is a Government Relations Specialist with Shurphy Consulting in Ottawa, and was previously the Manager of Government Relations with the Canadian Co-operative Association. He will address the audience on why government relations work is vital to the success of the co-op sector - both on a provincial and local level, and provide us with some best practices and tools to conduct effective advocacy, based on his experience and expertise.

Lynn Mountford, District Manager for Grand River with The Co-operators. In today’s competitive marketplace, how can co-ops distinguish themselves and engage clients who are not aware of the co-operative advantage? As a long established co-operative, The Co-operators has recently released its 2015-2018 Strategic Plan with three focus areas: Client Engagement, Co-operative Identity and Competitiveness.  Although distinct, these focus areas are interrelated and interdependent.  Success will depend on continually living the principles and values of all co-operatives:  honesty, openness, inclusivity, voice and social responsibility. Lynn will provide insight on how The Co-operators applies these principles in its distribution through trusted advisors.

REGISTRATION

All attendees MUST pre-register for the AGM. There is NO cost for On Co-op Members, Members of Member Organizations (MOMOs) or Stakeholders to attend. Non-Members are required to pay $20 + HST upon registering.

For up to date information please visit On Co-op's AGM Page.

9:00am to 11:00am
YWCA Elm Centre, Nancy's Auditorium
87 Elm Street

Celebrate Collective Impact for Youth & Learn About Youth CI Opportunities Ahead

Youth CI helps enable organizations across Ontario to develop, launch, and implement Collective Impact initiatives that directly improve outcomes for youth in their communities.

Join us on June 22nd at 9:00am to celebrate the launch of Youth CI’s first supported collaboratives, and to learn more about the upcoming Youth CI Cohort B.  You’ll hear from collaboratives that are currently going through the Youth CI process, learn about their unique approaches and meet their changemakers, and have a chance to check out our plan for the next stages of Youth CI.

If you are currently working on or are looking to develop ways to improve outcomes for youth in your community through a collective impact approach, this session will provide an overview of the  opportunities to access Youth CI workshops, coaching and grants to help with the development and launch Collective Impact initiatives.

Please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at info at youthci.ca. We look forward to seeing you there!

Register for the Youth CI event here

Youth CI is a partnership between The Laidlaw Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Foundation’s Innoweave initiative, supported by the Government of Ontario.