A creative and energetic communicator who has experience engaging nonprofit organizations across Ontario. The Communications Coordinator will enjoy creating plain language content using innovative tools to share roadly. The successful candidate will enjoy working with a small team in a “get stuff done” environment, and will have a passion to support Ontario’s nonprofits and charities.
Job Type: Full-time contract
Start Date: June 1, 2015
Salary Range: $45,000-$55,000, depending on experience
About TREC
TREC Renewable Energy Co-operative (TREC) is an incorporated, not-for-profit organization that has been working for more than 10 years to develop co-operatively owned renewable energy projects in Ontario and to educate about renewable energy, conservation, and the community power model.
17:00 to 18:00 [GMT (London) Time]
PROMOTING PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES (POPS), CITY OF TORONTO, CANADA
James Parakh, Manager of Urban Design for Toronto and East York District at the City of Toronto Planning Division outlines his work mapping and publicizing the city’s hundreds of privately owned but publicly accessible plazas, parkettes and courtyards - owned by developers but often provided as part of agreements with city planners.
CHARM BRACELET PLACEMAKING, CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH, USA
Chris Siefert, Museum Deputy Director outlines how over 20 cultural, recreational and educational organizations in Northside Pittsburgh have collectively: created a new theater in an old building; used art to transform an unwelcoming underpass; put on events at the local Farmers Market; worked with schools; renovated a city park; awarded micro-grants.
The New Barn-Raising is an initiative to encourage the exchange of international best practice around sustaining community and civic assets such as parks, recreation centers, libraries, neighborhood stores, senior centers, museums and theaters. These are places and spaces characterized by a high degree of accessibility, popularity and sense of belonging to 'the people'.
The term New Barn-Raising refers to how different groups (business, citizens, foundations, non-profits groups, politicians, social entrepreneurs, social investors, taxpayers and unions) can all pull together to support assets.
10:00-11:00am PST
Learn about proven models for mobilizing people, drawing from over a decade of work by the Storytellers’ Foundation in the Gitxsan Territory. Gain insight into how community organizing is fundamentally about relationship building and working with people.
Do you want to learn how to accelerate the transition to local living economies?
If you are considering enrolling in the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development, this webinar series is a unique opportunity to meet four of our instructors. If you participate in all 4 webinars of this series, we'll mail you a copy of Michael Shuman's most recent book The Local Economy Solution (will be published in June 2015).
10:00-11:00am PST
Economic Development today is space-based: designed without places in mind. The people who live in these places and feel the impacts of economic development are ignored. In this webinar Sean Markey will draw upon research that examines the history and impacts of space-based economic development in Western Canada.
Do you want to learn how to accelerate the transition to local living economies?
If you are considering enrolling in the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development, this webinar series is a unique opportunity to meet four of our instructors. If you participate in all 4 webinars of this series, we'll mail you a copy of Michael Shuman's most recent book The Local Economy Solution (will be published in June 2015).
Reports to: COIN General Manager
Division: COIN Property Maintenance Services
Salary: $20/hour
Hours: Average of 30 hours per week (guaranteed, but may be unevenly distributed)
Contract length: 52 weeks, with opportunity for renewal
Work location: Hatch Ptbo, 120 Murray Street, Peterborough, ON and job sites in the City of Peterborough
