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Building and Sustaining Vital Neighborhoods

4:00pm - 5:00pm, Eastern Time

Think about a neighborhood you just love. What is it that makes it feel so welcoming, so inspired, or so vibrant? The best neighborhoods make greatness seem effortless, but what you don’t see is that behind the scenes, a lot of hard work and dedication is going into sustaining a strong place.

What does it take for your neighborhood to achieve greatness, for residents to act neighborly and work together to achieve shared goals?

On the next CommunityMatters® conference call, Felisa Conner of the Office of Neighborhood Vitality in Garland, Texas will join us to talk about building and sustaining vital neighborhoods. We'll also hear from Councilman Scott LeMay of Garland, a graduate of the city's Neighborhood Management Academy and former President of the Camelot Neighborhood Association. Felisa and Councilman LeMay will share tools and strategies for neighborhood management - ways to foster collaboration and build capacity to develop and realize neighborhood vision and goals.

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Blog Post: Don Your Cardigan, It’s Time for Us All to Be a Little More Like Mr. Rogers

Speakers

Catalyzing a Sustainable Society

Noon - 1:30 pm.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (U of T)
252 Bloor St. West, (St. George Subway Station)
Room: 3-104

*No registration required

To watch online
 
The discussion will explore:

  • Metcalf's repositioning of its strategic areas of focus;
  • The role that policy, practice and collaboration play concurrently in building a new economy; and
  • Learning alongside community partnerships.

Presenter Bio's

Sandy Houston - President and CEO
Sandy Houston is the President and CEO of the Metcalf Foundation.  Over the last ten years, Sandy has steered the development of Metcalf into a leading private foundation engaged in helping Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy and creative society.  Prior to joining Metcalf, Sandy worked as a litigator before becoming a founding partner in Stitt Feld Handy Houston, Canada’s first law firm to focus predominately on alternative dispute resolution. Read more.

Andre Vallillee - Environment Program Director
Andre joined Metcalf in 2014 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, where he worked as a program manager overseeing the province-wide environmental portfolio and serving as the Foundation's strategy lead for the environment sector. Andre has also held positions with Smart Growth BC, UVic's Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy, and UBC's Centre for Human Settlements. He brings extensive experience in environmental philanthropy, environmental planning, and capacity building strategies to his new role at the Foundation. Andre received his Bachelors in Environmental Studies and Political Science from the University of Victoria and his Masters in Planning from the University of British Columbia.

Adriana Beemans - Inclusive Local Economies Program
Adriana Beemans joined the Metcalf Foundation in 2013, bringing extensive experience in community development, capacity building, and program innovation. Most recently she spent five years as the Director of Programs & Services at Working Women Community Centre, overseeing community engagement and settlement programming. As the Social Investment Fund Manager at Toronto Community Housing, she spent four years as a grant-maker working with community leaders in low-income communities. Before moving to Toronto, Adriana worked overseas with the Aga Khan Development Network in Pakistan and UN-Habitat in Afghanistan. She holds a graduate degree from the University of Toronto in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development from Trent University.

Thunder Bay Social Good Mapathon

Hosted by PARO Centre For Women's Enterprise and facilitated bysocialsca.pe, we would like to invite you to join us to share your knowledge and help co-create the beginnings of the Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario social good map for our community.
 
Maps allows us to see and engage with our community in ways we can only imagine. The Thunder Bay Social Good Mapathon will bring the mapping process to life and is an ideal opportunity to engage our community, raise awareness and improve the discoverability of those initiatives making a difference. 
 
A mapathon is an engaging, half-day in-person event that helps people map and explore their community together. Hosted by PARO Centre and facilitated by socialsca.pe, mapathon participants produce a collective list of organizations, programs and initiatives 'doing good' in the community, which is then digitized and uploaded on socialsca.pe

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AGENDA:

9AM - 930AM Registration + Breakfast
930AM - 945AM Introductions & Welcome
945AM - 1045AM Individual mapping exercise
1045AM - 11AM Group Reflection
11AM - 1215PM Small group mapping exercise
1215PM - 1230PM Group Reflection
1230PM - 115PM LUNCH
115PM - 230PM Large group mapping exercise
230PM - 245PM Group Reflection
245PM - 3PM Wrap up + next steps on socialsca.pe

 

Social Impact Ventures and Raising Capital: B Corporations and the Social Venture Connexion (SVX) – MaRS Best Practices

Apr 09, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
MaRS, CR-2
101 College Street

There is a growing belief that businesses must do more than create value for shareholders. Non-profits and government cannot address current and future societal and environmental challenges without corporate involvement. If you are a startup looking to create value beyond profit, then you will want to learn about Certified B Corporations. This new type of corporation uses the power of business to solve social and environmental challenges. These types of certifications are ideal for raising capital from socially conscious investors.
 
Join us as Joyce Sou, Manager of B Corporations and Social Impact Metrics at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, discusses how Social Venture Connection (SVX) is helping capital flow for social impact ventures.

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Participants will learn about the following:

  • What is impact investing?
  • What is a B Corporation?
  • How does SVX help B Corporations get investment?

About the Speaker:

JOYCE SOU
Manager of B Corporations and Social Impact Metrics. MaRS Centre for Impact Investing
Joyce leads the Community Development of B Corps in Canada and supports different initiatives that help social ventures to obtain impact investment. Her previous life included eight years at KPMG as a Manager of Assurance Services in the Consumer Markets Group. She also spent time in South America as a volunteer advisor to a local entrepreneur in Chile through the Endeavor Global program. Joyce is a partner at Social Venture Partners Toronto (SVPT) and serves on the Investment Committee, as well as the Advisory Team to selected investees. She holds a BComm from Queen’s University and is a Chartered Accountant (CA).

Reconomy: Where Cash takes a Back Seat

As we work to transition our world, a huge challenge lies in our ability to power the good work necessary to build a better future. We used to live in a world where money was the thing that enabled things to happen. But with dollars becoming more and more scarce, success will only come if we develop a myriad of alternative economies to empower our work.

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The good news is that Transition Lab has figured out all sorts of new ways to create affordable housing, feed our community, and even run a school with a minimum amount of money. (For example, our entire cash budget in 2013 was $8,758.)
 
Join us on May 8th for a Telesalon in Cooperation with Transition US to learn about the alternative economic models that we've proved viable, and how others could replicate them in their own communities. Participants will not only learn how to create these alternative economies, but launch models that could support their local Transition projects indefinitely.

Guest Speaker:

Russell Evans is the Director of Transition Lab- a living laboratory where the nations most creative young minds gather to build a better future. Transition Lab was also the winner of the MIT CoLab's Local Solutions Contest for creating the most viable, effective, and replicable way to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Citizen-Led Sustainable Change March webinar: Vivre St. Michel en Santé

1-2 pm ET

St. Michel is one of Montreal’s oldest suburbs. Since 2004, Vivre St. Michel en Santé (for a Healthy St. Michel) has employed an innovative urban and social revitalization strategy that has rebranded a neighbourhood once known for its high crime rates and lack of services into one that is known for its active and unified citizens and coordinated action. Particularly innovative are the processes used build “community” among a transient, diverse and largely immigrant population. Vivre St. Michel en Santé takes an integrated approach involving citizens, community organizations, donors and government offices. Collectively, their efforts have helped residents, with its mix of new immigrants, experience a better quality of life in the areas of art, culture, housing, security, health, sports, leisure, transportation and access to services.

Join us on Thursday, March 6, 2014, 1-2 pm ET (noon - 1 pm CT) when Brianne Peters and Jean Panet-Raymond present this Citizen-Led Sustainable Change webinar on an innovative urban and social revitalization strategy.

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Jean Panet-Raymond talks about some of the factors that have contributed to the success of his organization.

Other resources

Event Contact

Deb Markley
Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
919-932-7762
deb@e2mail.org
http://ruralwealth.org/page/webinars-1

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