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The Rural Ontario Institute is pleased to present the
2012 Leadership Webinar Series: Innovative Approaches
to Rural Community Economic Development

Webinar #2: Economic Gardening

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This series is a joint project of

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
(Eastern Time)

1:00pm Atlantic, 12:00pm Eastern, 11:00am Central, 10:00am Mountain, 9:00am Pacific

Presenter: Christine Hamilton-Pennell

This webinar will feature Christine Hamilton-Pennell, Founder and President of Growing Local Economies.

Traditional economic development focuses on attracting or recruiting business to a local community.  For some communities this may not work.  Learn about economic gardening, an entrepreneurial approach to economic development.

Find out how to grow your local economy by supporting entrepreneurs through the delivery of customized research services, appropriate infrastructure and strategic connections.

Hear about some successful Ontario experience from Collingwood where several organizations and programs are supporting entrepreneurs in their region.

Participation is free.
Please register now to receive your webinar login information.

More About the Series

This series of three webinars will enable community economic development practitioners across the province, regardless of geographic location, to access barrier-free information on exciting, new and potentially under-utilized approaches to CED from leaders in the field.

Webinar #3: Time Banking with Edgar Cahn, Creator of Time Dollars and founder of TimeBanks USA

Coming June 2012
More details coming soon.