12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

You’re invited to Employment Social Enterprise 101 – a webinar that will provide you with an overview of employment social enterprises – innovative businesses that create training and employment opportunities for people facing barriers to employment, such as people with disabilities, newcomers, and people with mental illness. 

The time is right for employment social enterprise development. Globally, and across Canada, employment social enterprises (ESEs) have demonstrated strong outcomes for their employees. Based on this success, and on persistent employment barriers for many people in Peel, Toronto and York Region, there is demand for additional jobs. Additionally, based on growth in ‘social purchasing’ behavior, there is increasing demand for the products and services created by ESEs. 

Register for Employment Social Enterprise 101

The webinar will feature:

• an overview of employment social enterprises, including: defining characteristics, key success factors, and outcomes
• a scan of the employment social enterprise ‘development pathway’
• a list of supports available to you through Toronto Enterprise Fund should you be interested in launching an employment social enterprise (e.g. grants, coaching, resources)
• a Q&A session with a representative of the Toronto Enterprise Fund, Canada’s leading supporter of employment social enterprises

The webinar is well-suited to emerging social entrepreneurs with an interest in employment inclusion, and the directors or managers of non-profit organizations or charities that run (or are interested in running) employment programs. The webinar will be hosted in English.

Carleton University

After winning the Canadian federal election in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proclaimed that ‘Canada is back’ – a message to citizens and the international community alike that Canada has regained its “compassionate and constructive voice”.

Yet as we approach the final year of this government’s four-year mandate, a common criticism is the lack of concrete action to accompany the government’s perceived good policy intentions.

Register for the CCIC 2018 Annual Conference

This year’s CCIC conference is organized in partnership with the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) and hosted at Carleton University. The two-day event will welcome approximately 250 stakeholders from international development and humanitarian civil society organizations (CSOs), academics and researchers, key government officials, and policy makers.

Objective: Shared learnings and actions towards change

The goal of this year’s conference is to engage our audience, participants, and presenters to share learnings, actions, and practices with the potential for change. Our thought-provoking plenary sessions and interactive workshops, led by international and national keynote speakers, will challenge the international development sector to consider new and innovative strategies, learnings, and opportunities in the context of our current policy environment. Participants will be invited to share, explore, and generate ground-breaking practices that will enhance the sector’s capacity to leverage promising policies and intentions into progressive and transformative change. In accordance with the partnership between CCIC and CASID, the conference will be enhanced by a commitment to explore modalities of collaboration between scholars, scholar/practitioners, and development practitioners.

6:00pm to 8:30pm
The Great Hall, ​1087 Queen St. W. 

Heritage Toronto wants to know what you think about the state of Toronto's heritage!

How well is the city is preserving and celebrating cultural, natural, and architectural heritage? Where does heritage fit in to inclusive city building in 2018? Which stories should be better amplified? When it comes to heritage preservation policy, what should Toronto be doing differently? We want to know what's important to you – come and join the conversation! 

Share your ideas and thoughts on heritage in the city at our public forum on July 31st, and directly contribute to the State of Heritage report produced every municipal election year. This is your chance to tell our municipal leaders how to shape the future of Toronto's past.

Register for the State of Heritage Public Forum

Heritage Toronto

Heritage Toronto is a charitable arms-length agency of the City of Toronto established in 1949.  Our mandate is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Toronto’s past and present among residents and visitors through education, commemoration and celebration of the city’s diverse people, places and events. Through partnerships with local community groups and volunteers, Heritage Toronto provides city-wide programs and services.