7:30pm to 11:00pm
192 Spadina Lounge

Building Up is thrilled to announce their Second Annual Fundraiser! Last year's event was a huge success, so let's get together and do it all over again! Since last year, the Building Up Family has grown. We've added two new business divisions, expanded our program offerings and more than doubled the size of our management team. As a result we have now trained over 100 pre-apprentices as they transition from trainees to tradespeople. With your support, we will be able to take that number to 200 over the next year.

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Building Up Together will feature:

A silent art auction featuring original artwork by local Toronto artists. Last year, these artists transformed toilet seats, lids and toilets into unique masterpieces. This year, they're taking it to the next level with our signature toilet seats, as well as creative pieces made from recycled and repurposed materials from Building Up job sites, as well as art on canvases made by our trainees.

Delicious snacks made from local and sustainable ingredients, supplied by Hawthorne Food and Drink, a social enterprise providing training and career development in the hospitality sector.

Plenty of drink options - Each ticket purchased comes with one free drink of your choice!

Incredible raffle prizes, including dinner at some of Toronto's top restaurants, tickets to sports events, and MORE!

A photo exhibit featuring photos of Building Up's trainees and alumni, as well as some of our current projects.

Award Ceremony, fantastic music, and entertainment throughout the evening! We'll have our DJ spinning all night, as well as a special performance from a Building Up alumnus. A magician will be working the room too!

...AND MORE!

Funds raised from Building Up Together 2018 will go towards creating opportunities for sustainable careers. 

We're very excited to celebrate how far Building Up has come with our team, trainees, partners, supporters, and friends. None of this would be possible without all of YOU!

For more information see the Buiding Up Together bulletin

Is diving into impact investing on your 2018-19 priority list? looking to deepen your impact investing practice?

Join us for a two-day impact investing intensive workshop

Six months after the release of the Impact Investing Guidebook we are inviting Canadian foundations to dive deep, hear from experts, follow structured priority and strategy setting processes and exchange with peers in the serene lakeside surroundings of Wasan Island.

From Sept. 17–19 2018, Community Foundations of Canada, Philanthropic Foundations of Canada and Purpose Capital will be hosting and facilitating an intensive workshop designed to support foundations of all types to seed and advance their impact investing practice.

This will be a participatory, hands-on learning workshop with two or three senior staff and board members designed to accelerate learning and action around your impact investing work. We are strongly recommending senior staff and board participation.

Register for the Impact Investing Workshop

Details

DATES: Late afternoon on Sept. 17 to after lunch on Sept. 19, 2018
COST: $1,500 for two people from one foundation, $2,000 for three people from one foundation. This includes facilitation, accommodations, meals on the island, materials and late-summer dockside drinks.
LOCATION: Wasan Island (2 hour drive north of Toronto Pearson Airport). Attendees must make their own way to Port Carling, Ontario to be picked up by boat.
QUESTIONS: Please email questions to Sara Lyons, Vice President, CFC slyons at communityfoundations.ca

3:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time 

What role can collective impact play in helping communities achieve systems change? 

Join us on July 10 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET for the next Collective Impact Forum Virtual Coffee, Achieving Systems Change in Collective Impact.

We’ll be talking with FSG’s John Kania, coauthor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review article “Collective Impact” (2011) and the recent article “The Water of Systems Change” (2018), to discuss how one can tackle the concepts and conditions involved with systems change work.

Register for Achieving Systems Change in Collective Impact

Can't make the actual virtual coffee time? Registering also means you'll be notified when the recording is uploaded to the Collective Impact Forum resource library. 

Come join the discussion on July 10!