12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Mountain Time

This session, hosted by the Battle River Alliance for Economic Development and Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities, will be geared to business owners from all disciplines and business service providers (municipalities, EDOs, CAOs, etc.) who seek to deepen their understanding and begin the process of succession planning. Succession planning is a natural process in a successful business and one that can (and should) be positive and empowering.

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Please Join Shauna for this Informative Webinar:

Shauna is the Executive Director of the Alberta Business Family Institute and former Project Manager for the Creating Pathways for Entrepreneurial Families Rural Initiative.
Shauna’s background includes a variety of experience, including banking and accounting along with project and event management. Shauna is a certified Family Enterprise Advisor and has successfully supported many small to medium sized businesses successfully transition to the next phase of ownership.

Living throughout rural Alberta growing up, Shauna has a unique understanding of the issues of rural sustainability and from being a partner in her own family business, she understands the need to readily access further education, information and resources in order for both the family and the business to thrive, grow and transition successfully.

Shauna is currently Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair for the Alberta Chamber of Commerce, Past- President of the Camrose Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board Member for the Rural Alberta Business Centres, Volunteer Mentor with MentorNation/Futurepreneur and Volunteer Screener for the TEC Edmonton VenturePrize Awards.

For more information visit www.acsrc.ca or contact:
Naomi Finseth, Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities
780.679.1672780.679.1672 | Email: acsrc at ualberta.ca
 
Or visit www.brandonu.ca/rdi/

1:30pm Eastern Time

Wondering how to move beyond youth involvement to youth engagement? Where can you find a powerful professional development program for staff? Are you looking for creative ways to market your credit union/co-operative within your community?

With the release of On Co-op’s new “CYL Sponsor and Youth Engagement Guide,” co-operatives and credit unions now have access to a comprehensive all-in-one resource which provides the collected best practices and necessary steps as to how your co-op can use CYL as the “centrepiece” around which to build your youth recruitment and engagement strategy - not to mention key pieces to your social media and staff professional development strategies!

This comprehensive step-by-step toolkit has been designed to guide your co-op’s year round involvement with CYL. The Youth Engagement Guide goes beyond "just" CYL and includes:

• Youth engagement Best Practices and sample initiatives
• Leveraging your staff’s professional development and team building initiatives
• Youth recruitment and selection guidelines/resources
• A year-round calendar of events and timelines  
• Sample youth engagement agreements with youth
• Guidelines for creating a powerful community/youth outreach program by pairing  CYL with On Co-op’s award-winning All 4 Each School Program

To get your advanced copy of the CYL Sponsor and Youth Engagement Guide, e-mail youth@ontario.coop.

To get the most from this, combine the Youth Engagement Guide with our informational Webinar on real world youth engagement and CYL at 1:30pm on Wednesday, January 14th.

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The CFTN and McGill University are proud to host Canada’s Third-Annual Fair Trade Conference. The three-day event will create opportunities for new partnerships that further the impact of fair trade.

We’ve achieved much in our first three years, but are just scratching the surface. This year’s conference will build on existing relationships to launch a new level of collaboration and cooperation among business and advocacy networks. The conference is presented in collaboration with our partners in Québec, the Association québécoise du commerce équitable & Équiterre.

This year, producer representatives will share their perspectives on the extraordinary work being done in Canada and around the world in support of fair trade. By working together we can achieve real change.

When: January 14, 15 & 16, 2015 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Where: McGill University (New Residence Hall) 3625 Avenue du Parc
What: An opportunity to connect with stakeholders from coast to coast
Who: Hosted by the CFTN & McGill University

Who’s Involved

Canada’s 2015 Fair Trade Conference will see leaders from across the country come together to strengthen existing ties and increase opportunities for collaboration. Participants will include: fair trade town and campus delegates, fair trade companies, certifiers, food service companies, government institutions, non-profit partners, retailers, university and college representatives, wholesalers

Conference Goals

• increase participation and coordination in the fair trade movement in Canada
• inspire, motivate, and build stakeholder capacity to strengthen impact
• present progress of the fair trade movement and the work being done by the CFTN
• prepare strategy for 2015-16  and beyond

For more information