12:00pm - 1:30pm Eastern Time

Financial well-being isn’t just about accessing the right information, but understanding how our financial decisions can be influenced by other cognitive processes.

Register for the Insights to Impact webinar

In this webinar, researchers Katy Davis and Emily Zimmerman from Ideas42 will share details about what behavioural science is, the key insights it has generated, and explore behavioural “nudges” and other interventions that can be used to strengthen financial empowerment programs and services.

6:00pm – 8:00pm
Toronto Public Library - Parkdale Library
1303 Queen Street West

Come learn more about Community Benefits Agreeements, and how to harness greater community control over development!

On Community Benefits: Community Benefits 101 aims to provide an in-depth look into Community Benefits Agreements as tools for leveraging equitable development without displacement. The panel brings together a group of community practitioners working on community benefits across Toronto to exchange knowledge about how to negotiate an agreement, how to hold partners accountable, and how Parkdale can begin to envision its own Community Benefits Framework.

Register for On Community Benefits: Community Benefits 101

The Panel

• Rosemarie Powell, Toronto Community Benefit Network
• Mariam Paul, East Scarborough Storefront
• Michelle Francis, Community Action Planning Group – York West

Moderated by Jenn Miller, Atkinson Foundation

Background

On Community Benefits is a two-part learning series organized by the Parkdale Community Economic Development (PCED) Planning Project. The neighbourhoodwide planning initiative has been led by over 30 community-based organizations to build Decent Work, Shared Wealth, and Equitable Development in Parkdale. Through a series of community-based consultations, the Parkdale Community Planning Study identified the establishment of a Community Benefits Framework as a key direction for advancing unified community needs and demands from infrastructure investment and development.

Please also join us for our first panel, Development 101, on June 20th from 6:00pm-8:00pm in the St Mark Church Sanctuary to take a more indepth look into the develoment and planning process. The learning series will lead into action-oriented community-based workshops throughout the months of July and August to collectively develop demands for community benefits in Parkdale.

9:00am to 4:30pm
Caledon Equestrian Park
200 Pine Ave

To deepen community is to find opportunities for ongoing connection. Community is not something some people have and others do not. We all have community in our lives. As living organisms, we gravitate toward one another. Something deep inside us knows that together we are more. To deepen community is to find joy together.

When we develop deep community, we can overcome our loneliness and challenge our fear; we can come together to make sense of the destruction around us; we can reach out together and actually do something about it. When we develop deep community we can move toward Collective Impact.

Tamarack in partnership with Caledon Community Services presents this one day workshop where you will learn how to engage and deepen your community in order to build a common agenda for large scale change. Paul Born will share not only the fundamental principles of Collective Impact, he will provide key insights as one of North America’s top Community Engagement leaders on how Deepening Community can sustain us as leaders and produce the outcomes we so desire. He will move these insights into practical tools for hosting large-scale conversations in your community - conversations that truly engage people toward a common agenda and a collective impact. He will also be introducing Collective Impact 3.0 and weaving new learnings from these concepts into the discourse of Deepening Community for Collective Impact. 

Register for Deepening Community for Collective Impact

 Learn to:

• Reconnect with your love for your community and discover its importance for social transformation
• Understand the four key acts that deepen community: Sharing our story, Enjoying one another by spending time together, Caring for one another, and Working together to build a better world
• Deepen community in the lives of your clients and strengthen their engagement in social change
• Understand the five key elements of Collective Impact: Common agenda, Shared measurement, Mutually reinforcing activities, Continuous communication, and The Backbone role
• Create a large scale common agenda and form multi-sector leadership teams for your collaborative efforts
• Harness the latest techniques for community engagement
• Involve those who will benefit most from the change you hope to see 

Speaker

Paul Born is the cofounder and President of Tamarack Institute, a leader on issues of place, citizenship engagement, collective impact, and community innovation. The author of four books, including two Canadian best sellers, Born is internationally recognized for his community-building activities that have won awards from the United Nations and as a senior fellow of Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social innovators.

Paul Born grew up in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia as the son of Mennonite refugees. This in part is what made him deeply curious about and engaged in ideas that cause people to work together for the common good, work that he describes as collective altruism.