Do you have the drive to make an impact on economic projects in the communities served by the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines? Working as a liaison with business, industry, the non-for-profit sector, and Aboriginal, municipal, and provincial and federal governments will provide you with such an opportunity.
Time: 7am-5pm
Location: Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa, ON
Unleashed, powered by the Centre for Social Enterprise Development (CSED), is a one-day conference designed to bring thinkers, disrupters, and doers together to learn and to share their knowledge and insights around the growing social enterprise landscape. On November 16th, 2017, we are excited to bring the event back, and showcase the incredible work of the sector while helping to define the different roles that can be played in growing social enterprise in Ottawa.
Money, Markets, People, and Ideas. In addition to these sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to browse through our Social Enterprise Marketplace, where they’ll not only be able to meet the social entrepreneurs and practitioners behind 18 local social enterprises, but also purchase directly from them!
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Position Status: 12 Month Contractual Position
Work Environment: Work flexibly out of a project office space and a home office setting with frequent travel throughout the municipality
Hours per Week: Averages 35 hours per week on flexible schedule (may require evening or weekend hours)
Salary: $47,500.00, plus travel expense budget
Start Date: September 18, 2017
1:00 - 2:00pm Eastern Time
This webinar will share developmental stages, challenges and key learnings of establishing a province wide initiative within a pan Canadian collective impact effort to end youth homelessness. A Way Home – a national collaborative for youth homelessness was one of the Ontario Trillium Foundation's first collective impact grantees and they will share their experience using a collective impact approach.
Tracey Robertson
After spending the last 25 years in strategic philanthropy, community development, higher education and the voluntary sector, Tracey has learned that the most innovative solutions are developed when people from diverse perspectives and disciplines come together to look at an issue in a new light. Over the last 10 years, Tracey has focused her work on investing and fueling social innovation at the grassroots, community and systemic levels.
Melanie Redman
Prior to becoming the Executive Director of A Way Home, Melanie was the Director of National Initiatives at Eva’s. In that role she directed the National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness, the Eva’s Awards for Ending Youth Homelessness, and the Mobilizing Local Capacity to End Youth Homelessness Program, which works with communities across Canada to craft, implement, and sustain plans to end youth homelessness. She currently serves as the Chair of the Youth Homelessness Research Priority Area at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. Her passion for addressing the root causes of complex social issues drew her to co-develop A Way Home with partners across Canada.
Dr. Stephen Gaetz
Dr. Gaetz is a leading international researcher on homelessness, and is director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University. He focuses his efforts on conducting research and mobilizing this knowledge so as to have a greater impact on solutions to homelessness. Stephen has played a leading international role in knowledge dissemination in the area of homelessness through the Homeless Hub.
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon,
Toronto Public Library
Asquith Avenue
Join us in Toronto on September 8-9-10, 2017 to find out how co-operative business models can be used to build a better digital economy.
What can digital entrepreneurs, freelancers, students, policy-makers, community leaders and activists expect at Disrupting the Disrupters? Inspiration! Learning! Collaboration!
Quite simply, we need better, more sustainable business models. The promise of the sharing economy, powered by peer-to-peer connections on digital platforms, has not delivered. The results of economic disruption by a few monopolies are now clear: platform-driven precarious employment, accelerating disparities, dissolution of labour standards, undermining of regulatory safeguards, and the monetization of private data.
The co-operative enterprise model – joint ownership by stakeholders (employees, and/or customers, and/or communities) – can address two fundamental problems.
The co-op ‘hack-and-own’ platform revolution is already emerging. These types of co-op start-ups now exist in many countries around the world, including Canada.
The potential is there…if we act quickly to reinforce and harness these ideas and promote co-operative values and principles, we can enjoy more equitable, social, and sustainable platform communities and business.
In addition to inspiration, Disrupting the Disrupters will be a learning experience.
Entrepreneurs working on digital platform projects have more choices on how to structure their businesses than are typically discussed with investors, advisors and business incubators. Various combinations of stakeholders – employees, customers, and communities – can form powerful, mutually supportive co‑operative partnerships that can be sustainable and reward founders.
As journalist and platform co-op advocate Nathan Schneider argues, "There’s a whole set of companies that inhabit the territory between boom and bust—companies that have good cash flow and a devoted user base, but that aren’t satisfying the cravings of Wall Street. These are the kinds of companies that might lead the way for a different kind of Internet; one that aligns ownership with the interests of its customers, and puts the ownership of companies in the hands of the workers and users who depend on them."
Even though cooperative ownership structures often provide a better and more sustainable approach for online enterprises, these alternatives are still not well known. Disrupting the Disrupters is an opportunity to learn about how platform co-operatives that have already emerged compete with shareholder-owned digital businesses everywhere. Let’s learn from their leadership!
So, let’s build the new co-op platform ecosystem together!
As platform monopolies such as Uber and Airbnb run into regulatory, labour, and public relations opposition, the opportunity exists for member and stakeholder owned platforms to offer an alternative.
The transformative and disruptive power of the platform economy is itself creating a renaissance of old school co-operative values and principles. To apply those proven values in the digital world, we need to answer a few key questions:
There’s no limit to the transformative power of co-operative platform ideas, whether at a local or a global “network effect” scale. If we collaborate, locally, nationally, and internationally, we can build a sustainable digital economy with open source values and economic democracy.
Join us September 9-10, 2017 in Toronto, as we bring together leading voices – and people like you – to explore these questions and investigate new opportunities and visions for Canadian tech startups.
Let’s harness the power of Inspiration, Leaning and Collaboration to create a more people-centred digital economy!
11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time
Over the past decade alone, web technology has vastly increased data availability, and community innovators have created new tools for accessing, visualizing, analyzing, and sharing relevant data to advance equity-focused policies and investments. From local tools like the Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas, which connects local leaders to timely data across eight key areas of community well-being, to national tools like Mapping Police Violence, which provides interactive maps and charts on officer-involved deaths of community members, online data tools are equipping advocates, policymakers, funders, and the public with relevant data to advance health equity and move policy across a range of issue areas.
Join us, live from Portland, for a panel discussion with national leaders who are using and designing data tools to drive health equity and community action.
Featured Speakers:
This convening is generously supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
