2pm - 3pm EST

Hosted by Claire Hall, AWL Project* manager, Research Findings presented by Sue Folinsbee and Brigid Hayes, Researchers

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Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills: The Current Reality

Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills (WLES) occurs across the country in many shapes and forms. Employers who engage in WLES do so for various reasons. Most often research captures the outcomes of WLES but not on what happens before employees sign on to do training. Recent research captures the changing focus of WLES, particularly from an employer standpoint (specifically small and medium sized enterprises).

Take this opportunity to learn about:

• the current thinking about WLES training
• the changing focus of WLES
• implications/opportunities from the findings

*this is a joint CLLN and ABC Life Literacy Canada Project

Canadian Literacy and Learning Network is the national hub for research, information and knowledge exchange, increasing literacies and essential skills across Canada. CLLN, a non-profit charitable organization, represents literacy coalitions, organizations and individuals in every province and territory in Canada. We share knowledge, engage partners and stakeholders and build awareness to advance literacy and learning across Canada. CLLN is funded by the Government of Canada’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.

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Join us for what promises to be an engaging and provocative conference.

ANSER/ARES is a dynamic growing association that is organizing its seventh annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. ANSER brings together leading academic researchers, practitioners, consultants, policymakers and community organizations from Canada and internationally to discuss current and emergent issues, debates and challenges in the fields of civil society, social economy, and nonprofit research and practice. Join us for what promises to be an engaging and provocative conference. The theme for the seventh conference at Brock is: Nonprofits and the Social Economy, Pursuing Borders without Boundaries.

Call for Papers 2014

Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

ODSP is the single largest disability income program in Ontario and is growing at an unsustainable rate. A new paper, by Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton, explores the complexity of Canada’s disability system and possible factors behind the alarming increase in social assistance disability expenditures. Please join us for the paper’s release. We will be holding a discussion, along with two panelists, at St. Christopher House, 248 Ossington Ave, Dec 13, at 2pm.

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December 3, 2013 @ St. Paul's University College
Alumni Hall (Room 201), 3:30 - 5 pm
190 Westmount Road N.
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G5

GreenHouse is a new innovation community, similar to VeloCity, with social entrepreneurship goals. Under the guidance of professional mentors and specialized learning opportunities, upper-year undergraduate students from various faculties conceive of initiatives that create environmental or social justice change and work in teams to implement them. While involved in the program, students gain valuable skills, build relevant networks and put their academic knowledge into practice.

Help us celebrate our first crop of GreenHouse innovators and their budding social enterprises. It's an opportunity to meet the GreenHouse students, find out about their initiatives and network with other community members and UW staff, faculty and students that are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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Light refreshments will be served.

Parking at St. Paul's will be free for this event.

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Where: Communitech Hub, 151 Charles Street West, Suite 100, Kitchener, Ontario, Atlas/Matrix Room.

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B Corporation Breakfast – 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.
Joyce Sou, Manager, B Corporation and Social Impact Metrics, at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing will share her insights on the benefits of B Corporation certification and how social purpose business around the globe are redefining success. Hear from Bruce Taylor, CEO of local B Corp, Enviro Stewards, on what B Corps mean to him.

Regional SVX Launch – 9:00 to 9:45 a.m.
Hear from Adam Spence, founder of Social Venture Connexion (SVX), as he shares how SVX has been designed to increase access to capital for impact ventures. Hear from ChangeIt, one of the founding ventures in SVX’s first cohort of issuers. As the first platform of its kind in North America, SVX has opened the capital markets for impact investing in Ontario and aims to support the social, environmental and economic prosperity of Ontario’s growth companies.