While Face book is great for many things this areicle talks about its value to not-for-profits
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Helping Themselves
With fewer donations and declining investments, nonprofits are thinking creatively about cutting costs and raising revenue
click here for Wall Street Journal article May 1, 2009
Time for a New Kind Of Capitalism
The global financial crisis has led to serious questions, about the state of world capitalism. Anger is still running hot and strong against what’s perceived as the selfishness and greed of those in big Western banks and corporations.
How do communities learn to thrive in changing times?
We at the BC Centre for Social Enterprise are proud to share news of a suite of workshops that we are co-sponsoring along with BC Healthy Communities.
Day 1: Taking Stock: How Resilient is Your Community?
Date: May 12, 2009
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 am (registration opens at 9:00 am)
Location: Clayburn School, 4315 Wright Street, Abbotsford BC
Faced with uncertain economic times, environmental challenges, and social unease, how can communities swim rather than sink? Thrive rather than merely survive? How can your community assess its strengths and weaknesses? What are key areas to focus on with intent?
Adapted from the field of conservation ecology, ‘resilience’ in the community context means building a local community system that is self- sufficient and flexible enough that it can bounce back from (external or internal) shocks. Often, the resilience approach means fostering communities that become more self-reliant: encourage local businesses, host well-connected citizens, are more food secure, and are aware of the importance of stewarding their own eco-regions for their own benefits as well as the globe’s.
The Canadian Centre for Community Renewal has recently developed a comprehensive community resilience tool which will be shared for the first time at this interactive, full day session. Michelle Colussi will be leading this session.
You will learn to assess the resilience of your community; identify critical areas in which resilience could be strengthened; and develop options for action. This is a hands-on day designed to enable you to work with the tool in your own organization, institution, or community.
Included in the cost to attend the two-session series is the book by local author Marilyn Hamilton, Integral City: Evolutional Intelligences for the Human Hive. This new book explores what happens when courageous dialogue surfaces differences, makes new connections, opens new pathways, brings hope, and creates community learning.
A book launch of Integral City will follow the resilience session, May 12th at 5:30 pm. Marilyn’s presentation outlines a big picture framework that offers new proactive options for the complex issue of building, and moving people from concern to action.
Day 2: Moving from Concern to Action: Communicating for Change
Date: June 11, 2009
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm (registration opens at 9:00 am)
Location: Surrey Museum, 17710-56A Avenue Surrey BC
Are you working to influence personal, social, political, or cultural change in your community? Are you curious about how and why different people understand, respond to, and interpret change? Do you grapple with how to influence change in diverse settings in which people have different perspectives, world views, and ways of reacting to and making sense of change?
*We are living in a time in which change has as many variations as people who experience it. Whether you are in the business of community health, literacy, economic development, sustainability, local government, or transportation management, you are witnessing the emergence of new (global and local) challenges, opportunities, and shifting contexts in which you do your work.
*Do you wonder how cohesion and a unifying direction could improve our current direction? How can we find the unifying threads that support social change?
*For some, change is new, exciting, and an invitation to innovation and creativity. For others change can be scary, risky, and paralyzing.
This workshop will support you to develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively influence change through your communications with diverse audiences. It helps you understand how you can translate your message/communication so that people can hear it, and how to align your message so that people can act to support it.
This workshop helps to uncover a common, unifying, and integrating framework that can guide us in times of turbulence and promote physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, and social values and community capacity building that considers the whole person in the whole community.
Pricing:
$125.00 + GST (early bird until April 30th)
$145.00 + GST (regular price after April 30th)
*registration includes both sessions, plus a copy of the new book, Integral City: Evolutional Intelligences for the Human Hive by Marilyn Hamilton, PhD at Day 1 of the series.
To register, click here.
For more information on the BC Centre for Social Enterprise, .
Stacey Corriveau
BC Centre for Social Enterprise
email: stacey@centreforsocialenterprise.com
web: http://www.centreforsocialenterprise.com
The meaning of Social Entrepreneurship
In this 2001 article J. Gregory Dees explains the meaning of the term Social Entrepreneurship
Patient Capital
Social entrepreneurship can take many forms. Patient capital is one of them. The underlying concept is the same combing entrepreneurial mission with social mission.
Here is a link to a presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz on the use of “patient capital” in Africa
Vancouver Storytellers
Vancouver Society of Storytelling Presents
Cric? Crac! Stories for Adults
When: The third Sunday night of each month is special.
Where: 1805 Larch SW corner at 2nd Avenue
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $5 for members & $6 for non-members
Tea and potluck treats; parking and wheelchair accessible.
Hope you can come; the tellers will be rivetting and magical, the tea will be sustaining, the other folks will be generous and kind. and the accordion of love will be kind of obnoxious, but charming in a quirky kind of way, just like always.
See you then!
For more information, call or e-mail Erin Graham
erinjoan@shaw.ca, 604-879-1014
NON-PROFIT CHARITIES AT RISK
Between 10,000 and 12,000 of Canada’s non-profits will fall victim to the current economic downturn, warns the head of a Toronto-based think-tank.
That’s one of every five or six of Canada’s approximately 60,000 non-profits, Rick Blickstead told representatives of charities, government and academia at Carleton University last week.
RESEARCH FINDS THAT KIDS MORE SUCCESSFUL IF WE CAN KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL
Researcher finds that teens more successful when access to welfare tight
Vancouver Sun June 5, 2008 – A newly released research study confirms what foster care advocates have been saying for years that keeping children in a family unit rather than placing them on welfare benefits both the child and the community.