Across Canada and around the world, people are rising up to shape new economies.  Recognizing that the ecological, social and even financial costs of our current economic system are unsustainable, innovative leaders are finding different paths forward.

As part of the third annual New Economy Week, this session will challenge us to explore how we can scale promising social innovations towards larger systemic change. 

The contributors will share big ideas and concrete examples of real solutions to further explore perspectives that they and others shared in Voices of New Economies, a report produced as part of Cities for People by One Earth and the Canadian CED Network.

The session offers inspiration for new possibilities that can bring us closer to a just, sustainable, and democratic society.

SPEAKERS

Hosted by Dagmar Timmer, Managing Director and Co-Founder of One Earth, the session will begin with an introduction by Michael Toye, Executive Director of the Canadian CED Network and Vanessa Timmer, Executive Director and Co-Founder of One Earth. It features insights from the following Voices contributors:

• Marianne Jurzyniec, Governance Liaison Manager, Affinity Credit Union

"We know youth are our future therefore investments to educate, mentor, and most importantly to ensure they are contributing to the decisions of today are invaluable.”

• Sean Geobey, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

"Wealth comes from our capacity to invest materially, socially, and intellectually in the creation of institutions and infrastructure that support collective efforts to try and make the world a better place.”

• Lis Suarez Visbal-Ensink, Executive Director, FEM International and Co-Director, ETHIK BGC

"The capacity to choose what is best for you and yours and embrace it, not to take what you can because it is your only option, or the only thing you can afford.”

• Pallavi Roy, Researcher, Centre for Urban Energy, Ryerson University

"The energy sector, which has traditionally been highly controlled, has immense potential to be revolutionized through new economic practices.”

• Victoria Wee, Computer Science student, Stanford University

"Young people are the ingredient x to really carving out the future that we want.”

• Nabeel Ahmed, Network Co-ordinator, Social Enterprise Toronto

"At the core, new economies have to be focused around people and protecting public interests, not falling prey to short- term, profit-driven private interests." 

• Alexa Pitoulis, Managing Director, OpenMedia

"How we interact with media has changed dramatically in the last 20 years.  Local ownership and control over Internet infrastructure is a key component to thriving new economies of the future."

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Voices of New Economies, a compilation of perspectives on advancing more sustainable, just, democratic and inclusive economies prepared by Cities for People, OneEarth and the Canadian CED Network, with support from the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
• New Economy Week
• New Economy Coalition

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Eastern Time

Hear from two non-profit organizations enabling housing stability by empowering those living on low-incomes to build savings and financial capacity through supportive programs and services:

SEED Winnipeg will provide an overview of how their financial empowerment programs have supported access to stable and affordable housing.  SEED’s presentation will highlight their Inner City Homebuyer IDA Program, which provides financial literacy education as well as down paymentand closing cost assistance to low-income families through a 1:1 savings-matching program.

Boston, MA based Compass Working Capital will also be on hand to discuss their Family Self-Sufficiency Program, the first public-private partnership of its kind in the U.S. offering a scalable housing-based model that helps residents of federally subsidized housing to build financial security and reduce reliance on public assistance.

Don’t miss this webinar exploring various program models, partnerships and approaches to reaching those who are the most financially excluded. Through insights into SEED Winnipeg and Compass Working Capital’s individualized financial training tools and savings programs, you will learn more about how asset management is one of the key pillars to building results based pathways out of poverty.

Register for Enabling Housing Stability Through Asset Building

SPEAKERS:

Louise Simbandumwe, Director of Asset Building Programs, SEED Winnipeg (MB)

Sherry Riva, Founder and Executive Director, Compass Working Capital, Boston, MA (USA)

SOURCE: Canadian Housing & Renewal Association