1:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time

17 Montreal neighbourhoods – 9 Collaborative Funders – 3 Strategic Partners - $23 million investment

Five years ago, Montréal’s Collective Impact Project was launched as a unique neighbourhood-based effort to experiment, innovate and find new ways to accelerate change and achieve measurable and significant outcomes to reduce poverty. Centraide du Grand Montréal has been the catalyst and project operations lead of this innovative approach to city-wide change.

Join Sylvia Cheuy as she welcomes Rotem Ayalon, co-coordinator of the Collective Impact Project (CIP) to share key learnings and insights generated from the first five years of this inspiring example of Collective Impact in action. Learn about the impacts, ripple effects and learnings that the CIP has generated during its first phase and discover what they’re thinking about as they consider the next phase of their work.

Register for Collective Impact in Action

Learn More:

• Learn more about Montréal's Collective Impact Project
• Explore the Collective Impact Project's 2019/20 Impact Report
• Read Evolving the Practice of Collective Impact: Inspiration from the Field, which features the story of Montréal's Collective Impact Project

All registrants will receive a full recording of the webinar, a copy of the slides, and a collection of links and resources. 

Speakers

Rotem Ayalon, Co-coordinator, Collective Impact Project

Rotem Ayalon co-coordinates the Collective Impact Project at Centraide of Greater Montréal. She has a master’s degree in urban planning from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Cornell University. Rotem is passionate about food issues in cities and is a founding member of Québec’s first food policy council in Montréal.

Sylvia Cheuy, Consulting Director, Collective Impact, Tamarack Institute

Sylvia is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Collective Impact Idea Area. She is passionate about community change and what becomes possible when residents and various sector leaders share an aspirational vision for their future. She believes that when the assets of residents and community are identified and connected, they become powerful drivers of community change. Sylvia completed her graduate diploma in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo in 2013 where she explored opportunities to reimagine regional food systems. Sylvia lives in Caledon Ontario with her husband, John Graham and their three children.

1pm to 4pm Central Time

Expand your regional development toolbox

Economic development is changing, and homegrown solutions are playing a more prominent role in a region’s development strategy. Co-operative businesses can help with this strategy.

Creating Connections is a 3-hour online workshop. Designed for economic and business development professionals, participants in the workshop explore this unique corporate structure and how it can support their regional strategies. The workshop is practical, results-focused and delivered by experienced practitioners. Plus, this FREE course is EDAC accredited.

Register now for Creating Connections

Take this unique workshop to:

→ Discover new growth opportunities
→ Explore innovative solutions to investment readiness
→ Improve business retention and expansion
→ Increase local economic development

Learn more about Creating Connections

1pm to 4pm Central Time

Expand your regional development toolbox

Economic development is changing, and homegrown solutions are playing a more prominent role in a region’s development strategy. Co-operative businesses can help with this strategy.

Creating Connections is a 3-hour online workshop. Designed for economic and business development professionals, participants in the workshop explore this unique corporate structure and how it can support their regional strategies. The workshop is practical, results-focused and delivered by experienced practitioners. Plus, this FREE course is EDAC accredited.

Register now for Creating Connections

Take this unique workshop to:

→ Discover new growth opportunities
→ Explore innovative solutions to investment readiness
→ Improve business retention and expansion
→ Increase local economic development

Learn more about Creating Connections

SEWF 2021: Co-hosted with Common Good Solutions (Nova Scotia, Canada)

In 2021, the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) is partnering with Common Good Solutions in Nova Scotia as event co-host to shine a spotlight on Canada, while addressing priorities and issues for social enterprises around the world. Key themes will include climate change, young people, social procurement, economic recovery and indigenous social enterprises. 

SEWF will be kicking off their new annual event programme with a Policy Forum in April. This will be followed by the a Rural Forum in June and SEWF 2021 in late September/early October. They will close the year with the SEWF Academic Forum in November. All events will be in English and French and will have digital participation with their flagship forum – depending on travel restrictions – blending online and in-person sessions (to be confirmed 1st March).

The new event strategy recognises the ongoing and lasting impacts of COVID-19 on the SEWF community, as well as the opportunity digital presents and builds on the success and lessons learned from last year’s event and also the Community Consultation SEWF recently undertook. 

Rural Forum (8 & 9 June)
Social enterprises are often the glue that keep rural communities together. And yet they face a range of challenges that their urban counterparts do not. That’s why SEWF has created a dedicated event to support, connect and build the rural social enterprise community.

Learn more

Other SEWF 2021 events

• Policy Forum (27 & 28 April)
  • Join the launch of the new Social Procurement Community of Practice! Effective policy is essential to facilitate the development of social enterprise. Whether you’re a policymaker, agency or intermediary involved in policies, you will be able to connect and learn at this event. 
• SEWF 2021 (September/October)
  • SEWF's flagship forum is one of the world’s leading events for social enterprise. It provides a space for connection and community, conversations and collaborations. It’s also an opportunity to be informed and inspired by masterclasses, presentations and panel discussions.
• Academic Forum (November)

Learn more

SEWF 2021: Co-hosted with Common Good Solutions (Nova Scotia, Canada)

In 2021, the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) is partnering with Common Good Solutions in Nova Scotia as event co-host to shine a spotlight on Canada, while addressing priorities and issues for social enterprises around the world. Key themes will include climate change, young people, social procurement, economic recovery and indigenous social enterprises. 

SEWF will be kicking off their new annual event programme with a Policy Forum in April. This will be followed by a Rural Forum in June and SEWF 2021 in late September/early October. They will close the year with the SEWF Academic Forum in November. All events will be in English and French and will have digital participation with their flagship forum – depending on travel restrictions – blending online and in-person sessions (to be confirmed 1st March).

The new event strategy recognises the ongoing and lasting impacts of COVID-19 on the SEWF community, as well as the opportunity digital presents and builds on the success and lessons learned from last year’s event and also the Community Consultation SEWF recently undertook. 

Policy Forum (27 & 28 April)
Join the launch of the new Social Procurement Community of Practice! Effective policy is essential to facilitate the development of social enterprise. Whether you’re a policymaker, agency or intermediary involved in policies, you will be able to connect and learn at this event. 

More information and tickets

Other SEWF 2021 events

• Rural Forum (8 & 9 June)
  • Social enterprises are often the glue that keep rural communities together. And yet they face a range of challenges that their urban counterparts do not. That’s why SEWF has created a dedicated event to support, connect and build the rural social enterprise community.
• SEWF 2021 (September/October)
  • SEWF's flagship forum is one of the world’s leading events for social enterprise. It provides a space for connection and community, conversations and collaborations. It’s also an opportunity to be informed and inspired by masterclasses, presentations and panel discussions.
• Academic Forum (November)

Learn more

An UnConference is a gathering place for people to have deep discussions, go down rabbit holes, and come back up for even more refreshing air. People who are gathering will be having conversations about trends in the charitable sector, novel systems and changes that are happening elsewhere, systemic change issues, orthodoxies that need changing and much more! 

Register for the Hopeful Economics Unconference

What to Expect?

• March 3rd – Pre-Conference. This includes 2 different streams for the community of faith folk and social purpose organizations. These streams are designed to help your get in the right mindset for the rest of the conference!  
• March 4th – 
  • Morning - "Fishbowl: Seeing Things Differently" which will help you change your perspective about who and how to collaborate.
  • Afternoon - "Mission Possible" is a fun interactive game that will stretch you to work together to address a presented social/community challenge
• March 5th – 
  • Morning - "Fall in love with the problem" is the time to lean into the challenges that impact you the most or the ones that you are the most passionate about. We guarantee you'll make new connections and generate new ideas here! 
  • Afternoon -"Local Inclusive Economies: Connect Local!" this is our final session and this is the opportunity for you to connect locally. Everyone will bring their unique experience from the conference and you'll be able to share and learn from each other.

Learn more the Hopeful Economics Unconference