1pm Eastern

This webinar is targeted for impact investors and others who want to better understand investment options for targeting impact capital to worker coops. We will provide background about worker cooperatives and the opportunity in worker coop conversions, review worker coop investment structures, and delve into investment options ranging from direct investing, loan and equity fund investing and investment crowdfunding.

Register for the Impact Investing in Worker Cooperatives webinar

Presenters

Blake Jones, Co-founder, Namasté Solar
Christina Jennings, Executive Director, Shared Capital
Matt Glatting, Treasurer, Capital Impact Partners
Annie McShiras, Investment Associate, Self-Help Federal Credit Union
Alison Lingane, Co-founder, Project Equity

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Conference Centre  
35 Laurier Street

Theme: Radical Roots/ Radical Routes of Worker Co-operation

The world needs workplace democracy now more than ever; it needs people and planet before profits.  Attend the CWCF-CoopZone Conference to help map out these radical routes, to build this new and better world through worker co-operation!

The movement for workplace democracy has always had a radical, transformative vision. These radical roots also call us to new radical routes, i.e., what is our way forward as a movement of solidarity economics based on ownership and control instead of capital? The world needs workplace democracy now more than ever; it needs people and planet before profits. Come to our Conference to help us map out these radical routes, to build this new and better world.

Register for 2017 Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation

CWCF is thrilled to welcome two Senators as co-keynote speakers, Senator Lucie Moncion, a committed life-long co-operator and Past President of Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada; and Senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

November 2:  

1) Worker Co-op Management Intensive Day, Business Inn, Ottawa,

OR

2) Co-op Developer Intensive Day, designed by the CoopZone Board for Co-op Developers, at Four Points Sheraton, Gatineau.

November 3 & 4: Main Conference Program.

Note:  Accommodations will be available at the Four Points Sheraton and a nearby hostel.  The two conference sites, although in different provinces, are only 3 kilometres apart; we will organize ground transportation.

8:30am - 6:00pm
Concordia University

Transform Montréal 2017: Disrupt and democratize the Economy is the second annual social and solidarity entrepreneurship celebration and conference that brings together dynamic forces of social and economic transformation in Montreal.

On April 29th and 30th, 2017, join us as we celebrate the vibrancy of Montreal’s social and economic movements to build a economy based on democratic principles that put people and planet first!

PROPEL collective projects forward,
DEVELOP our individual skill sets and collective intelligence, and
CULTIVATE a community of innovative social doers and economic democracy pioneers

Register for Transform Montreal

A convergence of three key components of structural and transformative change:

• Speakers & revolutionary keynotes from inspiring, high-impact, and innovative democratic commercial organizations from Montreal and around the world.
• Local collective/social entrepreneurs, community organizers and activists, Montreal social economy actors, and action-oriented students!
• Skill building and capacity building workshops, as well as sector-specific workshops.

10:30am – 11:30am

Despite growing prosperity, thousands of Torontonians still live in poverty. In this webinar, learn about how local anchors, such as governments and educational institutions, can use their sizeable, everyday procurement and infrastructure spending to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth and transform the local economies of cities.

In our keynote, Kurt Sommer will talk about the Baltimore Integration Partnership which has helped over 800 residents secure jobs and leveraged $149 million of investment for Baltimore’s inner-core neighbourhoods.

For more information, contact Wayne Chu at wayne.chu at toronto.ca

Register for Transforming Cities Through the Power of Anchor Procurement

Download the event poster

Speakers

Creating an anchor strategy for Toronto
Wayne Chu,  AnchorTO Program Lead

East Scarborough Works: Local institutions as economic drivers
Gillian Mason, Principal, Gillian Mason & Associates and Advisor to East Scarborough Storefront

Learn how Baltimore anchors are creating jobs and driving inclusive economic development for low-income residents.
Kurt Sommer, Director, Baltimore Integration Partnership

This is a webinar hosted by WebEx. Users will be required to listen via their computer speakers. Go to webex.com/test-meeting.html to check compatbility.

2pm Eastern Time

Join the New Economy Coalition for a webinar about coalition-building for policy advocacy and social change, led by New Economy Project, an economic justice center with deep experience organizing coalitions and campaigns to challenge banks and other corporations; hold government accountable; and advance cooperative economics in New York. Building on their work with both issue-based and transformational change coalitions, co-directors Sarah Ludwig and Deyanira Del Rio will lead a discussion about coalition models and tactics; establishing vision and protocols; and engaging and prioritizing leadership by people and communities of color.

Register for the Coalition-Building for Policy and Social Change webinar

The webinar will address, among other topics:

• Identifying key allies and sectors of support
• Coalition tactics & roles, including policy advocacy, popular education, capacity-building, communications, research and legal support
• Testimonials & storytelling strategies
• Bridging coalitions and campaigns that challenge status quo and advance "new economy" institutions and policies.

More than ever all social actors in Quebec and Canada are being challenged by the nature of the socio-economic issues and the environmental challenges we face. 

The symposium will bring to the forefront the conversation of actors in the philanthropic fundraising systems of Quebec, Canada and other countries. It will also mobilize civil society organizations involved in philanthropic action, representatives of the state (from federal to municipal) and entrepreneurs (from the market economy or the social economy). This conversation will be more broadly focused on people who, from the point of view of citizen action with philanthropic reach, are directly challenged by the emergency situation facing our societies.

For more information, you can download the programme here

Register for the PhiLab International Conference

The conference will:

• Lay the foundation for a conversation on the foundations of current environmental and socio-economic challenges.
• Clarify the position and role of social actors of the philanthropic ecosystem in facing these challenges.