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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12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

The Social Innovation Residency is a unique new offering out of the Banff Centre. It has been designed for leaders with an innovative project in mind, that holds potential to get at the root causes of big problems and that is ready for significant refinement and development over a focused period of time. If you are a change agent from the private, social benefit, government, or the philanthropy sector and would like to learn more about the program and application process, join us for this one-hour informational webinar.

Residency content will integrate and build upon the highly successful social innovation curriculum recently designed for the Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo, as well as a suite of innovative programs offered through The Banff Centre.

The Social Innovation Residency is a collaboration between The Banff Centre and the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo with the generous support of Suncor Energy Foundation. As a WISIR partner, SiG is proud to present this webinar for you.

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2:00pm to 3:00pm Eastern Time

This webinar will feature some of Community Builders' own research, which examines the factors that attract entrepreneurs and an educated workforce to communities in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. As the country climbs out of the recession, communities are seeking new approaches to economic development that will give them a competitive advantage in today’s economy.

Looking forward, communities need to be creative about attracting businesses and workers. It is becoming clear that the traditional economic development approach of attracting one major industry through business incentives, long-range tax cuts, or land offerings is not effective in creating a diverse or sustainable local economy. Our results indicate that creating a strong and resilient local economy is tied to creating a great community where people want to live. Join us to learn more!

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Speakers

Clark Anderson directs the Sonoran Institute’s Colorado Program, which helps local partners align community planning, economic development and natural resource management goals. A native of Eagle County, Colorado, Clark’s work is inspired by a passion for the people and communities of the West.

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2:00pm to 4:00pm
212 - 1737 West 3rd Ave

Preparation is more affordable than fixing things later. That is why we recommend that a good legal strategy is to get informed about what to look out for and what common pitfalls your co-op should avoid.

Avoiding Pitfalls, Planning for Potentials

Preparation is more affordable than fixing things later. That is why we recommend that the best legal strategy is to get informed about what to look out for and what common pitfalls your co-op should avoid. 

This workshop is an excellent introduction for co-op directors and managers into the common legal affairs facing co-ops. You’ll learn:

• what you need to know about the legal framework in which your co-op operates
• ways that you can minimize your risks
• where to find additional legal resources

The workshop will be led by a lawyer with experience working with co-operatives, and will enable you as a director or manager of a co-operative to build an understanding of common challenges and ways to work around them.

An important note

While this workshop will be led by a legal professional, it is intended to be an introduction and overview of common legal issues and ways for co-ops to plan so that they don’t become problems. If your co-op needs specific legal advice, the BCCA can help connect you to a lawyer who may be able to help.

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Attend in-person or via teleconference.

If you can't make it to the workshop in person, BCCA training sessions are available by webinar or teleconference. We'll make it happen.

Noon to 1pm Eastern Time

This webinar will build on the most recent Canadian statistics from the 2012 Canadian Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Review and emerging SRI opportunitites in Canada. We will explore how consumers can positively impact society by engaging in SRI.

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About Brenda Plant

Brenda is a Partner at Ellio sustainability consultants, specializing in sustainability and responsible investment. She is also involved in the development of an affordable rental housing investment fund (for accredited investors). Brenda has an MSc in International Management from HEC Montréal, a BA in Humanities and a BSW from McGill University.

Brenda is a member of the Québec Association of Professionals in Sustainable Development (AProDD) and a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). She is well known in university circles (sits on the Advisory Committee for HEC Montréal’s Graduate Diploma in Management and Sustainability and lectured at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University), in professional circles (consultant, Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Capital Équitable – a fund dedicated to the development of fair trade, etc.), and in community circles (member of the Board of Directors and Impact Investment Committee of the Béati Foundation, cofounder of Cataléthique – a network of professionals working to apply CSR and sustainability principles in their practices, past member of the Board of Directors of the Responsible Investment Association of Canada (formerly SIO) and formerly Co-chairperson of Ethical Investors Group).

Recognized by Les Affaires as one of 15 women who will make change happen in Quebec, Brenda Plant is committed to investing her life energy in bettering the world. Brenda founded a public education website focusing on responsible consumption – Ethiquette, the responsible consumer network – which operated from 2005 to 2011. She relaunched Ethiquette in September 2014, this time in conjunction with the business school of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) as a public education website on responsible investment.

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Marketing is something every business needs to do, and it’s something that you can do differently as a co-op. Join other co-operators to explore ways to market the co-operative advantage that we know and love, and learn from some success stories of other co-ops that have used the way that they work to make a marketing difference.

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Start Marketing the Co-op Advantage

Marketing is something every business needs to do, and it’s something that you can do differently as a co-op. Join other co-operators to explore ways to market the co-operative advantage that we know and love, and learn from some success stories of other co-ops that have used the way that they work to make a marketing difference.

Tips and Tricks

This two-hour workshop will be led by a panel of representatives from co-ops with marketing skills, and will focus on tips and tricks of the trade.

You will explore:

• Just what the co-op advantage is, and how to use it as a key marketing strategy
• Use of social media for co-op marketing
• Web-based marketing
• Member marketing
• And more!

Attend in-person or via teleconference.
If you can't make it to the workshop in person, BCCA training sessions are available by webinar or teleconference. We'll make it happen.