Speakers: Tim Stoate, Vice President of Impact Investing, Toronto Atmospheric Fund, and Amy Brown, Program Manager of Residential Financing, Efficiency Nova Scotia Corporation.Terms of employment: Temporary Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Eastern
What’s the difference between a plan that’s put into place and one that’s put on a shelf? People. If you want something to show for your hard work, you need to build strong local leadership and grassroots support. This webinar will focus on how to grow effective local leaders who can nurture volunteers, corral resources and build the public support that can move community design or planning work from paper to practice.
Join Milan Wall from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development to learn about their research on keys to thriving communities and effective leadership. Milan will describe characteristics of effective local leaders, roles and responsibilities to guide community action, and tips for recruiting new leaders in a changing world.
This call is part of a capacity-building series offered jointly by CommunityMatters and the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design.
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What It Takes to Be an Effective Community Leader
Speakers
Milan Wall, Co-Director of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development
Warren Nilsson
11:00am-12:00pm Pacific, 2:00-3:00pm Eastern
Tana Paddock
How can you build a capacity for innovation within your social purpose organization? Organizations that excel at social innovation tend to have in common one apparently simple practice: They pay a great deal of attention to the inner experiences of the people who work in them.
Please join SSIR on February 5 as Warren Nilsson and Tana Paddock discuss the theory and practice of "inscaping"—their term for the work of drawing on personal experience to generate the raw material of social change. Nilsson and Paddock will present examples and insights from specific organizations that use inscaping to foster innovation "from the inside out."
Marlon Parker
Joining them for the webinar will be Marlon Parker, founder of RLabs, a social enterprise based in Cape Town that promotes community-driven innovation in 21 countries.
The webinar will build on Nilsson and Paddock's article "Social Innovation From the Inside Out," in SSIR's Winter 2014 issue. There will be time for Q&A during the last 20 to 30 minutes of the webinar, which will be moderated by SSIR Senior Editor, Michael Slind.
This webinar is for people at nonprofit organizations, foundations, and other social purpose groups who want to create internal processes that will help to build a deep, long-lasting capacity for innovative thought and action.
Learn more about this webinar and register here. To view previous webinars in the SSIR Live! webinar series, go to https://ssir.org/.
Regina Starr Ridley
Publishing Director
Stanford Social Innovation Review
P.S. Away from your desk on February 5? That's OK! Register and you can view this webinar on-demand three hours after the live event ends.
What do you get when you bring together local entrepreneurs and everyday investors?A pitchfest (also called an entrepreneur showcase) is a fun, informative event where local entrepreneurs who are looking to raise capital can connect with everyday investors and community members.
During the event, the entrepreneurs give presentations to “pitch” their business ideas to the audience in an informal setting that typically includes food, drink, and plenty of mingling. A pitchfest is a matchmaking event of sorts, serving as the first step toward connecting local entrepreneurs and investors in meaningful ways.
On February 6, New Dream hosts a free webinar about how to organize a pitchfest in your community. Dovetailing with New Dream's Guide to Going Local, the webinar will cover topics such as how to get started, identifying local entrepreneurs and investors, and maximizing the success of your event. Register now!
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014
Time: 1:00-2:00pm EST (10:00-11:00am PST)
Cost: Free
Bob Marino of Seacoast Local, an education based nonprofit organization working to keep more money rooted in the Seacoast, NH community. Seacoast Local's Entrepreneur Showcases are featured in New Dream's Guide to Going Local — watch the video here.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is proud to once again partner with Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) to celebrate International Development Week, which runs from February 2 – 8, 2014. We invite you to join us on Thursday, February 6, from 12 to 1:15 pm EST for a webinar on tourism development for local economic development (LED).
During this webinar, you will learn how three Canadian municipal experts work with their counterparts in Nicaragua, Cambodia and Ukraine on innovative approaches to tourism development to benefit community economic growth. The interactive format of the webinar will give participants the opportunity to exchange ideas, share best practices and ask questions.
Our valued partners in local government development cooperation are helping build more inclusive and resilient communities. The webinar creates a venue to tell their story and share their expertise, to further support the important peer-to-peer exchanges fostered by FCM international projects.
Please note that this webinar will be held in English only.
Should you have any question regarding the webinar, please do not hesitate to contact Pascal Lavoie, Program Manager (MPED Asia).
