4pm to 5:30pm
Georgian College, 1450 8th St. E
Room 616

The Social Enterprise Network of Central Ontario (senco) is an initiative of Georgian College's Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation and has created this Social Enterprise 101 session to provide you with an in-depth understanding on what defines a social enterprise. Throughout this session social enterprise business models will be reviewed and a series of existing social enterprises will be explored. If you are interested to learn more about social enterprise, considering starting a social enterprise, or looking to build social impact into your business you’ll want to attend this session.

Register for Social Enterprise 101

This session is open to the public and we hope to have attendees from interested non-profits, businesses, as well as students, faculty and individuals. Attend in person or stream in online by webinar. This Social Enterprise 101 session is offered monthly across multiple Georgian College locations in Central Ontario.

Learn more about senco at http://senco.io/

4pm to 5:30pm
Georgian College, 825 Memorial Ave
Room A101

The Social Enterprise Network of Central Ontario (senco) is an initiative of Georgian College's Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation and has created this Social Enterprise 101 session to provide you with an in-depth understanding on what defines a social enterprise. Throughout this session social enterprise business models will be reviewed and a series of existing social enterprises will be explored. If you are interested to learn more about social enterprise, considering starting a social enterprise, or looking to build social impact into your business you’ll want to attend this session.

Register for Social Enterprise 101

This session is open to the public and we hope to have attendees from interested non-profits, businesses, as well as students, faculty and individuals. Attend in person or stream in online by webinar. This Social Enterprise 101 session is offered monthly across multiple Georgian College locations in Central Ontario.

Learn more about senco at http://senco.io/

Our communities are facing challenges like never before. Challenges like putting food on tables, roofs over heads, ensuring there is clean water to drink, and programs to support those who it need it most. It is no longer enough to just work a job. We need businesses and places within organizations where people’s ideas on how to solve these challenges are allowed to contribute, grow and flourish. Let us at SENCO and Georgian’s Centre For Changemaking and Social Innovation help you or your organization take the first step to building out a Flourishing Social Enterprise.

Register for senco Series 2: Flourishing Social Enterprise Business Model [West Cohort]

Using the Flourishing Social EnterpriseTM canvas as our starting point, we will put together the tools you need to kick-start your initiative. These sessions will work you through a prototyping loop to make sure you are testing your idea before ‘going live’. Successful prototyping unlocks access to additional community support including resource dollars.

What you get:

• Learn how to pivot and understand how to gain traction with your model
• You get a completed flourishing business model canvas and plan
• How to ‘pitch’ your Social Enterprise’s story
• Assembling your value proposition for your stakeholder audiences
• You get the opportunity to access to community start-up resources
• Access to entrepreneurship and business mentors (and/or other service provider support)

Dates & Locations:

East Cohort -> Barrie/Midland/Orillia/Bracebridge
January 9th, 16th, 23rd 3-7pm

West Cohort -> Collingwood/Owen Sound/Orangeville
February 6th, 13th & 20th 3-7pm

This ticket is for the full series which includes 3 Colab Sessions on January 9th, 16th, 23rd from 3-7pm. Session will be held at Georgian Campuses and location will be based on registration across the East campuses of Barrie/Midland/Orillia/Bracebridge.

*If the fee for this session series is a barrier for you to attend, please contact us at info[at]senco.io

Our communities are facing challenges like never before. Challenges like putting food on tables, roofs over heads, ensuring there is clean water to drink, and programs to support those who it need it most. It is no longer enough to just work a job. We need businesses and places within organizations where people’s ideas on how to solve these challenges are allowed to contribute, grow and flourish. Let us at SENCO and Georgian’s Centre For Changemaking and Social Innovation help you or your organization take the first step to building out a Flourishing Social Enterprise.

Register for senco Series 2: Flourishing Social Enterprise Business Model [East Cohort]

Using the Flourishing Social EnterpriseTM canvas as our starting point, we will put together the tools you need to kick-start your initiative. These sessions will work you through a prototyping loop to make sure you are testing your idea before ‘going live’. Successful prototyping unlocks access to additional community support including resource dollars.

What you get:

• Learn how to pivot and understand how to gain traction with your model
• You get a completed flourishing business model canvas and plan
• How to ‘pitch’ your Social Enterprise’s story
• Assembling your value proposition for your stakeholder audiences
• You get the opportunity to access to community start-up resources
• Access to entrepreneurship and business mentors (and/or other service provider support)

Dates & Locations:

East Cohort -> Barrie/Midland/Orillia/Bracebridge
January 9th, 16th, 23rd 3-7pm

West Cohort -> Collingwood/Owen Sound/Orangeville
February 6th, 13th & 20th 3-7pm

This ticket is for the full series which includes 3 Colab Sessions on January 9th, 16th, 23rd from 3-7pm. Session will be held at Georgian Campuses and location will be based on registration across the East campuses of Barrie/Midland/Orillia/Bracebridge.

*If the fee for this session series is a barrier for you to attend, please contact us at info[at]senco.io

Join us for this SEIM-COP kick-off!

senco is an initiative of Georgian College's Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation and has created this Social Enterprise Impact Measurement Community of Practice (SEIM-COP) to provide you with:

• an opportunity to learn what impact measurement is all about
• to meet others in the region also looking to gain understanding of impact measurement
• to find out about new tools used for impact measurement
• to share stories of positive impact happening in your community
• to meet senco's team
• and to find out what other resources are available for you to grow your enterprise

Register for Social Enterprise Impact Measurement Community of Practice

This session is open to the public and we hope to have attendees from various communities, non-profits, for-profits, community and business leaders, as well as students, faculty and individual social entrepreneurs all looking to capture the positive impact they are creating.

Attend in person or stream in online by webinar. This SEIM-COP session will be offered quarterly across multiple Georgian College locations in Central Ontario and is available to participate in-person or online.

Learn more about senco at http://senco.io/

8am to 10am
Voices.com
100 Dundas Street, Suite 700

The gathering will be two parts:

8am-9am: Live session that airs world-wide hosted by MIT session

Details about MIT’s Presencing Institute & Transforming Capitalism Live Sessions: Web & PDF

9am-10am: Locally-focused dialogue on the role that our sector can play in creating a caring economy - co-hosted by a panel of tech sector leaders

Register for Transform Capitalism - Tensions in Technology

We’re inviting you to help create the conversation.

“Tech Sector Leading London’s New Economy”

Is this a headline you’d like to see become a reality?

Do you want to co-create a new economic reality that helps all of our companies to grow and prosper in London?

• Our sector is driven by a workforce that desires meaning, connection to between personal purpose and worklife.
• As a sector, we provide innovative solutions to community problems - through a wide spectrum of activities including building applications to help humans become more efficient, or online video games to entertain us.
• Many in London’s tech sector are taking lead role in creating companies that care about people, profit and planet.
• How can aligning our sector’s goals to the goals of the emerging workforce help all of us recruit and retain talent in our region?

These are the questions that we want to explore with you.