Build your Capacity this fall with workshops from the Social Economy Centre.

The Social Economy Centre announces 2013-14 workshops:

Please note we have updated our rules for certificates:

For the Social Economy Certificate: Participants should have completed 5 workshops with the Social Economy Centre within the last 2 years.
For the Social Economy Certificate in Human Resource Management: Participants should have completed 3 Human Resource Management workshops within the last two years. One course must be Human Resource Management in NonProfit Organizations.

Build your Capacity this fall with workshops from the Social Economy Centre.

Fall Workshops

Community Bonds

Two years ago, folks at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) had the outlandish idea that they could raise $2 Million toward the purchase and renovation of a 36,000 square foot building, jam pack that space with world-changing people and projects, all while providing our investors with a triple bottom line return – in the span of a whirlwind 8 months. Well, we did it! And now we want to help others do the same.

Join Grace Yogaretnam, of the Centre for Social Innovation, for this informative presentation of what they did, how they did it, and how you can do it too. Gain insight into your organization’s financing challenges, determine whether community bonds are the right fit for your organization, learn how to launch your own community bond offering, and of course, how to turn your supporters into investors.

UK: Government launches community support service to help investment in local projects

A support service to help communities to control their resources was launched by Don Foster, parliamentary under-secretary of state for communities and local governments, at the Community Development Finance Association's annual conference at the beginning of this month in the UK. The community Shares Unit with a budget ￡590,000 over three years by Co-operative UK which promotes cooperative enterprises, with support from the network for community-led organizations. This will allow more people to invest small amounts to locally organized projects without the regulations involved in a conventional share issue, and the unit is aiming at supporting 500 social ventures and back 200 share issues.

Don Foster says "We are shifting control away from Whitehall, handing communities the powers they need to run their own affairs ... Across the country, communities are showing they have the ambition and determination to secure ownership of important local assets and get new projects off the ground."

Lunchbox Speaker Series: What you need to know for your nonprofit or charity.

The Ontario Not-for-Profit Act
Lynn Eakin, Policy Advisor, Ontario Nonprofit Network Presents:
What you need to know for your nonprofit or charity.
Ontario's new Not-for-profit Corporations Act borrows heavily from business corporate law but nonprofit corporations differ in significant ways from business corporations.

Join us to find out how the new act will change corporate governance in the sector.

For more information, please contact Keita Demming at [email protected]

This event will also be webcast live. For detailed instructions, please visit our Speaker Series page.

Details
When: Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012
Time: Noon - 1:30 pm.
Where: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (U of T)
252 Bloor St. West,
(St. George Subway Station),
Room 3-104
*No registration required

Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, tea, and fresh-baked snacks from Lemon & Allspice will be provided.