A group of national organizations are putting their heads together to design a system for measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities. The aim is to move beyond the blunt instruments of low-income cut-off (LICO), low income measure (LIM), and market basket measure (MBM) and find reliable ways to measure financial vulnerability at municipal and neighbourhood scales.

Topics and Panellists

1.Open data and civic engagement:

• Jonathan Brun, Board Member, Open North
• Ellie Marshall, Communications Manager, Open North

2.The Why and How of measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities

• Katherine Scott, Vice President, Canadian Council on Social Development
• Cindy Lindsay, Director of Member Services, Community Foundations of Canada
• Liz Mulholland, CEO, Social and Enterprise Development Innovations
• Craig Alexander, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group

3.Community Panel: Wellbeing Toronto

• Harvey Low, Manager, Social Development Finance & Administration Division, City of Toronto
• Beth Wilson, Senior Researcher, Toronto Social Planning Council

4.Using Statistics Canada's survey and administrative data products to measure financial vulnerability

• Sybille Richter-Salomons, Social Research Policy Analyst, City of Calgary
• Lorraine Copas, Executive Director, SPARC BC

Cost: Free

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Description:

Elizabeth Sheehan, the co-founding champion and now president of Climate Smart Business Inc , is leading an exciting webinar on the evolution and scaling of a unique community based approach to carbon reduction.  Organized as a B-Corp which blends non-profit and private ownership, Climate Smart is a social enterprise focused on engaging small and mid–size businesses to reduce their carbon foot print through energy, waste and transportation efficiencies.  Their story from idea to prototype to piloting their package of services is joined up with a remarkable scaling of their carbon reduction impacts in B.C. Partnerships with municipalities have been an important feature of their approach.

About Climate Smart:

Having delivered their 100th training cohort and within reach of their initial 1 million tonnes carbon under management target, Climate Smart is now considering other key issues:

• how to expand their success into other markets
• how to structure partnerships in other jurisdiction
• financing options
• how new knowledge gained as a result of market development can positively impact carbon reduction efforts up and down supply chains and the realized impacts to the rest of the economy

Date and Time: June 18th, 9:00- 11:00AM Pacific Time

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These key issues and others will be brought up throughout our webinar. We hope you can join us for the presentation!

Speakers: Tom Kelly and Liz Weaver
 Location: via conference call
 Date: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 - 11:55am -  1:00 pm, ET  

 Details: Tom Kelly, a key thought-leader at Tamarack's 2013 CCI: Accelerating Impact <http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/cci.html>  is renowned for his ground-breaking evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's ten-year community change initiative Making Connections using the Theory-of-Change methodology.  Making Connections is an initiative that focuses on developing family economic success in several communities across the United States.  Join Tom and Liz Weaver for this tele-learning and discover more about why the Theory of Change methodology is well suited for comprehensive collective impact initiatives; and, how it can be harnessed as a practice to accelerate shared learning.  Tom will also profile more about his current evaluation work as the Vice President for Knowledge, Evaluation and Learning for the Hawai'i Community Foundation <http://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org> .    

Speaker: Mark Cabaj  
 Location: via conference call
 Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 - 11:55am -  1:00 pm, ET  
 Details: Join in this exciting free tele-learning with Mark Cabaj as he shares how to plan and evaluate policy change.
 
Mark Cabaj is a leading thinker on developmental evaluation and policy change.  He is a Tamarack Associate and regular facilitator of Evaluating Community Impact and the Communities Collaborating Institute. In addition to his work as the chief of Here To There Consulting, Mark is a dynamic speaker and community leader.  This will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about planning and evaluating policy change.
There will be an opportunity for questions towards the end of the interview.  Do register for this learning opportunity, even if you cannot attend you will receive a follow up email with a link to the full interview.