Over 4 days, explore the 5 competencies every changemaker needs to move ideas to practice to impact. Through workshops, open space dialogue, tools, immersive tours, and peer input processes, go deep into one approach or advance your skills in each.

Register for the Community Change Festival

What can you expect at this year's event?

• A Festival of Ideas - This year's gathering will be framed around the 5 competencies every change-maker needs to move ideas to practice to impact. These are must-have's in your repertoire if you're working on complex community issues. Learn what they are. 
• A Celebration - It's not just about strengthening your community change competencies, but about celebrating the amazing work that is being done by leaders like you all across the country and beyond. From evening receptions to artistic performances, this gathering will be incorporating the true festival spirit throughout.  Learn more about how we'll celebrate.
• Time to connect and explore - You're busy people. We get it. So we wanted to make sure we built an agenda that gives you time and space to connect with your new colleagues as well as explore the city we're in. We'll be working with local partners to get you out of the building and into real life examples of community change work happening in Toronto. Learn more about the emerging agenda. 

10:00am to 6:00pm
Enercare Centre - Exhibition Place
100 Princes' Boulevard

Businesses are key to creating sustainable solutions for the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. “Buy Good. Feel Good.” is dedicated to building a community of people and organizations who believe that business should have a positive impact on the world. They aspire to make ethical consumption the norm, inspiring all businesses to operate for the common good.

Register for the Buy Good. Feel Good. Expo

When businesses operate with profit as their sole objective, workers are exploited, the environment is polluted, and our natural resources are depleted. In contrast, social enterprises use business practices to create positive change in the world. They contribute to sustainable development through innovations in healthcare, renewable energy, microfinance, and much more. Social enterprises empower communities and create fair employment opportunities for the world’s poorest and most marginalized groups.

They aspire to live in a world where businesses are leading the development of a healthy, fair, and equitable society. Every purchase we make has an impact. “Buy Good. Feel Good.” connects consumers with the brands that make a difference. Join our Movement and let us change the world, one purchase at a time. As a social enterprise, we are committed to reinvesting the majority of our profits into our operations to grow, support more social enterprises and ensure the fulfilment of our mission.

6:00pm to 10:00pm
Hall C - Enercare Centre - Exhibition Place
100 Princes' Boulevard

They are celebrating social good and the change makers behind amazing organizations that promote a fair, ethical and healthy economy!

Explore and shop from Canada's largest selection of life-changing products and experiences, from fair trade apparel and accessories to organic foods and artisanal home decor.

Register for the Buy Good. Feel Good. Expo Opening Party

What you'll find:

• More than 100 exhibitors showcasing the latest trends in ethically sourced products from more than 50 countries around the world.
• Food vendors offering healthy, sustainable, organic and local foods
• Live entertainment from local artists
• Art Exhibits around social justice topics
• Bar offering fair trade and organic beverages (Alcoholic and Non Alcoholic)

The LFFC 9th Assembly will be held in Cedar Glen Outdoor Centre Schomberg from March 20th-21st 2018. The assembly brings together co-operative managers, farmers and food system developers to learn from each other.

Highlights of the upcoming 2018 LFFC Assembly

• Over 20 sector specific workshops geared to co-ops
• 25+ leading co-op speakers
• Exciting new marketing opportunities for co-ops
• Silent Transformation screening

Register for the Local Food and Farm Coop 9th Annual Assembly

Attended by food and farming co-ops from across Canada, this conference is an opportunity to connect with peers from the sector, build new connections and learn from each other. Relationships fostered at the assembly continue for years as co-operators work together to overcome challenges and strive for success together. 

Program

The workshops planned at the Assembly are all geared towards identified needs of our members. The goal is to balance practical business training with forward thinking system change content to keep us inspired. 

Check out the draft program: (subject to change)

Special Events: Silent Transformation Film Screening Tuesday March 20th 7pm

This is a film about the transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model. As the modern economy increasingly denies vast sectors of the population basic amenities for decent life, this co-operative spirit is as critical as ever. However, over the years the co-op sector has become insular and poorly understood.

A Silent Transformation sets out to explore the innovative self-help efforts of different communities across the Province of Ontario. By addressing their needs collectively they are helping to regain the radical vision of co-operation. 

The bi-annual Central Ontario Co-operative Housing Federation (COCHF) Education Conferences offer training workshops, a networking luncheon, and updates from the housing co-op sector. Conference brochures and registration forms are sent to co-op offices approximately two months prior to the conference date. Our next Fall Education Conference date to be announced.

The major events of the education program are the Spring and Fall Education Conferences.

Register for the COCHF Education Conference & AGM

Attendees choose from a list of morning workshops, and there will be a conference plenary session in the afternoon. The conferences also include a networking luncheon. Conference brochures and registration forms for each Spring and Fall conference are sent to co-op offices and are posted on this web site approximately two months prior to the conference date.

More Spring Conference info here