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Manitoba Excellence in Sustainability Awards 2010

BUILD – Action on Climate Change, Air Quality and Energy Efficiency Award
The Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation – Honourable Mention
Diversity Food Services – Education for Sustainability Award
Fresh Option Organic Delivery – Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award

Credit Union Central of Canada

Duane Nicol – Winner of the ‘Be the Voice’ 2010 Contest

Manitoba Co-operative Association Awards 2010

David Kerr – Cooperative Merit Award
Evan Bownes – Youth Leadership Award

The Manitoba Excellence in Sustainability Awards 2010

The Manitoba Excellence in Sustainability Awards honour people, projects and ideas that successfully turn the province’s principles and guidelines of sustainable development into concrete and lasting achievements. On November 25, four CCEDNet members and partners were acknowledged and celebrated for their contributions to building stronger, more sustainable communities.

Building Urban Industries for Local Development, Inc. (BUILD)

BUILD, a member of and nominated by CCEDNet, was presented with the Action on Climate Change, Air Quality and Energy Efficiency Award for its work in providing energy retrofits in lower income housing, and for improving overall socio-economic well-being by providing supportive training and employment opportunities for low-income individuals.

The Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation

The BNRC, also a CCEDNet member, received Honourable Mention for making measurable improvements in reducing greenhouse gases and increasing energy efficiency through its Brandon Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP) and the Community Led Emission Reduction (CLER) pilot project.

Diversity Food Services

Diversity Food Services was nominated by CCEDNet, and is partly owned by SEED Winnipeg, a CCEDNet member. Diversity received the Education for Sustainability Award for its work in training and employing inner-city residents, and its committment to using locally sourced, organic, and fair-trade ingredients in their nutritious and affordable menu.

Fresh Option Organic Delivery (FOOD)

FOOD received the Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award for working with local producers to strengthen Manitoba’s organic market and increase the sustainability of our food system. CCEDNet has proudly collaborated with FOOD on the Farm to Cafeteria Working Group, and other food policy initiatives.

Credit Union Central of Canada – Be the Voice Contest

For this year’s Be the Voice Contest, the National Young Leaders Committee challenged credit union leaders under 40 to submit their ideas on the next innovation opportunity in banking for the Canadian Credit Union System.

Duane Nicol

Duane Nicol is manager of corporate social responsibility at Assiniboine Credit Union, Deputy Mayor of Selkirk, and a CCEDNet member. His “radically simple” idea to make credit unions more convenient and flexible for their members has earned him the top prize in this year’s national Be the Voice Contest.

Click here to read his winning submission.

Manitoba Co-operative Association Awards

The Manitoba co-op movement annually recognizes individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the promotion of cooperative values and to the development and success of cooperatives serving Manitoba, Canada and internationally. This year, the following CCEDNet members were acknowledged at the 21st MCA Awards Gala in October.

David Kerr

David Kerr was a co-recipient of this year’s Cooperative Merit Award for his lifelong commitment to co-operative development. David had an illustrious career with the Province of Manitoba, and now works as an independent
cooperative developer and is a member of the Cooperative Community Strategy working group on the creation of a more supportive environment for the establishment and ongoing operation of cooperatives.

Evan Bownes

Evan Bowness is a sociology graduate student at the University of Manitoba and President of the South Osborne Urban Community Cooperative. He was the recipient of this year’s Manitoba Cooperative Association Youth Leadership Award for his work raising awareness and providing programming that helps to connect community members to the food that they eat. The South Osborne UCC currently runs a local food buying club, a community conversation series, an intergenerational gardening project and fruit and garden share programs.

Below is the final, member-approved set of Manitoba policy resolutions that was voted on at the CCEDNet Manitoba Policy Summit on November 16, 2010.

During the summer of 2010, members of the Canadian CED Network – Manitoba worked together to create a set of policy resolutions that would highlight policy priorities for the network and our communities. These resolutions articulated the reasons why each policy was required to make a difference in our CED activities, including a description of the current context, and a clearly stated position that CCEDNet could advance.

This package, titled Toward Strong, Fair, Sustainable Communities, presents a set policy priorities for the network and our communities to pursue in 2011. The document now becomes a tool for all of us to use in advancing our collective agenda with policy makers.

Download as a pdf or View online

The November Parliamentary Committee report Federal Poverty Reduction Plan: Working in Partnership Towards Reducing Poverty in Canada calls for the federal government to immediately commit to a federal action plan to reduce poverty in Canada. If implemented, it could change the face of poverty in Canada.

Unfortunately, previous reports on poverty have sat on the shelf. The national campaigns Make Poverty History and Dignity for All are encouraging Canadians to send a message to Human Resources Minister Diane Finley and their local MP, urging the government to respond positively to the recommendations in the report.

Make Poverty History’s campaign page makes it easy to send a message. Take action now to tell the government that we need immediate action to end poverty in Canada.

To support the report, visit Make Poverty History’s website

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities has tabled an extensive report calling for a federal poverty reduction plan. The report’s 59 recommendations include measures to increase funding for community organizations to reduce poverty, and increased funding for social economy initiatives.

The federal report can be retrieved from the parliamentary website

Dignity for All: the Campaign for a Poverty-Free Canada and Make Poverty History, two national anti-poverty campaigns of which CCEDNet is a member, have issued a joint release applauding the report and already looking towards the government response which is required in 120 days.

The Dignity for All and Make Poverty History release is available here.

The Canadian Community Economic Development Network is proud to be a partner in today’s launch of the International Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy, to be held from October 17 to 20, 2011 at the Palais des congrès in Montréal.

To see the Release click here

The Canadian CED Network’s regional and national newsletters keep you informed about the Network’s activities as well as the work of our members. They are filled with interesting resources and new developments in CED.

The November 2010 National Newsletter is now available.

Click here to subscribe to future newsletters or to access the archive of past newsletters.

Ian MacPherson is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Victoria, and is a founding director of the British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies. On October 22, 2010, he made the keynote address at the 8th Annual CD/CED Gathering. His speech was titled ‘Cultivating Co-operation: The Roots Run Deep.’ Click here to read the full speech.

Telelearning Session 23: The Role of the Social Economy in Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems

Podcast Now available, click here to listen to the full recording.

Tuesday, October 19 2010, 9:00 – 10:00 am Pacific Time (12:00 pm Eastern time)

Register TODAY and join us for a FREE and pertinent discussion of this 21st century challenge – food security.

BACKGROUND

This session will explore how to build more sustainable food and agriculture systems.
During this session speakers will address the following questions:

How will building better sustainable food and agriculture systems help with climate change, nutrition and health imperatives?
What are the key ingredients to building sustainable food and agriculture systems?
How is the Social Economy and community economic development a factor?

SPEAKERS:

Aleck Ostry is Canada Research Chair in the Social Determinants of Community Health and is also a Senior Scholar with the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in British Columbia
Linda Geggie is the coordinator of the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable, is the community food lead for the Capacity Building Project at the Office of Community Based Research, University of Victoria and is a network developer for the BCHLA Capacity Building Project with the Vancouver Island Food Systems Network.

MODERATOR:

Rachelle McElroy, Knowledge Mobilization Specialist with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network.

CALL LOGISTICS:
·    Session Date: Tuesday October 19th 2010
·    Call begins at 9:00 am Pacific time, 12:00 pm Eastern time
·    Call-in information will be given upon registration
·    Register before October 19th to obtain dial in information and background papers
·    This session is in English

SESSION FORMAT: 1 Hour
Welcome: 5 min
Presentations: 10 min by each speaker
Discussion: 35 minutes

REGISTRATION:
Register by phoning 250-472-4976, or e-mailing with your name, location, and work or volunteer position. For more information about the Canadian Social Economy Hub, please visit: www.socialeconomyhub.ca

Limited number of spaces available – Register soon!

BIOGRAPHIES:

Aleck Ostry

Dr. Ostry is Canada Research Chair in the Social Determinants of Community Health and is also a Senior Scholar with the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in British Columbia. He has an MSc in Health Service Planning, an MA in history (specializing in the history of public health), and a PhD in epidemiology. He conducts an extensive program on the social determinants of health with a focus on rural health, food security, and nutrition policy.

Linda Geggie

Linda Geggie is the founder of LifeCycles, a community based organization developed in 1994 to cultivate awareness and initiate action around food, health and urban sustainability. LifeCycles operates projects such as Growing Schools, the Fruit Tree Project, and acts as the hub for Urban Agriculture in the City of Victoria. She is currently the Coordinator of the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR), which works to facilitate education, information sharing and collaborative work of food and agriculture organizations in the region. CRFAIR also works on policy and planning issues with Municipal Governments, Islands Trust and the CRD. Linda is also involved in the creation of the emerging Vancouver Island Food Systems Network and is a board member of the BC Food Systems Network. She also works with the University of Victoria’s Office of Community Based Research as the Community Lead on food and health. At Blue Skies Farm, situated in Saanich, Linda works alongside her family to produce honey, eggs and shiitake mushrooms.

Rachelle McElroy

Rachelle is the Knowledge Mobilization Specialist with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network and assists with researcher with the CSEHub. For the past 10 years she has been forwarding sustainability in diverse leadership roles for many facets of community, including NGO’s, government, business and institutions. Rachelle holds a Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden and is a graduate of the Victoria Leadership Program. Rachelle also serves as board chair of City Green Solutions in Victoria, BC and performs with Kikeyambay, an afro-fusion orchestra and African dance troop.

Telelearning Session 22: Converging Agendas Social Economy and Environmental Sustainability

PODCAST Now Available, click here to listen to a full recording of this session.

Thursday, October 14 2010, 9:00 – 10:00 am Pacific Time (12:00 pm Eastern time)

BACKGROUND

This session will examine how to strengthen the use of the Social Economy in enhancing social, economic and environmental sustainability in Canada. The speakers will highlight the findings of research by the Canadian Social Economy Hub and Research Partnerships and other literature and analysis to suggest the significant recent trends in combining environmental sustainability objectives with the production of goods and services in the economy through actors in the Social Economy.

During this session speakers will address the following questions:

What is some evidence of environmental sustainability and the Social Economy having converging agendas?
What is unique and promising about this juncture?
What are some examples and ideas for scaling up this emerging trend?
SPEAKERS:

Mike Lewis is Managing Director of the Canadian Center for Community Renewal, and Director and Lead Investigator for BALTA.
Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin is an MSc candidate in Rural Planning & Development at the University of Guelph. She is a Transition Towns Trainer and has been actively involved as a participant and researcher with Transition Guelph

MODERATOR:

Rupert Downing is Executive Director of the Community Social Planning Council in Victoria, former Executive Director of the Canadian CED Network and Co-director for the Canadian Social Economy Research Hub

CALL LOGISTICS:

Session Date: Thursday October 14th 2010
Call begins at 9:00 am Pacific time, 12:00 pm Eastern time
Call-in information will be given upon registration
Register before October 14th to obtain dial in information and background papers

This session is in English

SESSION FORMAT: 1 Hour
Welcome: 5 min
Presentations: 10 min by each speaker
Discussion: 35 minutes

Limited number of spaces available – Register soon!

BIOGRAPHIES:

Mike Lewis

Since 1977, Mike Lewis has founded and managed a number of organizations that have succeeded each other, all of which have been integrally involved in community economic development, community resource management, development finance and the Social Economy. He is a well-known author, having authored or co-authored 13 books and a large number of reports and chapters, as well as over 60 articles in Making Waves, Canada’s CED quarterly and several in other publications. He is also the editor of Making Waves. Selections of his writing have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese. He is editor of the successor to Making Waves being launched this fall – i-4 (Inspire, Innovate, Invent, Incite)

He currently heads up two of these successor organizations: he is executive director of the Center for Community Enterprise and Managing Director of the non-profit Canadian Center for Community Renewal. These two organizations are linked through a trust in which CCE operates a for-profit consultancy, the profits of which are annually allocated to CCCR as the non-profit beneficiary. CCCR finances research and development work in the field in community and economic development based on priorities established by the managers, associates and affiliates that make up part of the CCE family, which stretches across Canada and into the US and the U.K.

In the last three years, the mission of CCCR has shifted while continuing to include CED and the Social Economy as key aspects. CCCR is committed to crafting solutions and adaptations to the critical challenges stemming from climate change and peak oil.

Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin

Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin is an MSc candidate in Rural Planning & Development at the University of Guelph. She is a Transition Towns Trainer and has been actively involved as a participant and researcher with Transition Guelph. She has been awarded the Social Economy Student Network Student Researcher of the Month award in October 2009, has collaborated with the Mid-Western Ontario Regional Green Jobs Strategy on a paper exploring the roles of community economic development (CED) organizations in green entreprise development and has presented on the theme of Local Food, CED and Reskilling in Transition Towns at the Association for Non-Profit and Social Economy Research conference.

Émanuèle has worked in Social Economy and sustainability for the past four years. She has acted as a researcher on Education for Sustainable Development best practices at the Toronto Environment Office, as an International Consultant on social entreprise development for HIV/AIDS NGOs in Burkina Faso for the United Nations’ World Food Program and as a project manager for a Job Creation Partnership project at Working Skills Centre, a vocational college for immigrant women. She was a member of the Emerging Leaders Committee of the Canadian CED Network for two years, and is currently undertaking a urban/rural comparative study on strategies of citizens organizations to increase their resilience to climate change and peak oil.

Rupert Downing

Rupert Downing is the Executive Director of the Community Social Planning Council in Victoria BC, Co-director for the Canadian Social Economy Research Hub and the former ED of the Community Economic Development Network. The Network is a national member-based NGO committed to supporting community economic development and building Canada’s Social Economy, with offices in Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Victoriaville supporting the work of thousands of community based organizations and other stakeholders in every province and territory. The Network is committed to reducing unemployment, poverty and social disadvantage in Canada by supporting the work of grass roots community development organizations through public education, policy development, research, practitioner development and peer learning.
Mr. Downing was previously an Executive Director of the BC Ministry of Community Development, and worked on major policy and legislative initiatives in the Cabinet Policy office, and Ministry of Employment and Investment of the BC governmen

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! To listen to a full recording of this session, click here

Telelearning Session 21: Co-operative Health Care

Thursday, September 30 2010, 9:00 – 10:00 am Pacific Time (12:00 pm Eastern time)

Register TODAY and join us for a fascinating discussion on co-operatives and health care.

BACKGROUND

Many Canadians are both proud and worried about health care. For decades it has been a defining aspect of our nationality, a subject of immense pride — as well as a deliverer of good services. The system is now often in question and despite its strengths, many wonder if it could not be improved. Co-operative health services in Canada and many other parts of the world provide excellent services based on concerns about community health as well as individual health and on encouraging individual citizens to assume greater responsibility for their own health. During this session speakers will address the following questions:

What is the extent and nature of the health co-operatives in your province?
What are the new initiatives?
What are the obstacles to future development?

SPEAKERS:

Jean-Pierre Girard is a lecturer and researcher affiliated with the Institut de recherche et d’éducation pour les coopératives et les mutuelles de l’Université de Sherbrooke.
Catherine Levinten-Reid is an Assistant Professor in the Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University.
John Restakis, is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Cooperative Association

MODERATOR:

Ian MacPherson, Co-director of CSEHub, and founder of the British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies at the University of Victoria. He has been at the University of Victoria since 1976, serving as Chair of the Department of History from 1981 to 1989 and as Dean of Humanities from 1992 to 2000.

CALL LOGISTICS:

Session Date: Thursday September 30th 2010
Call begins at 9:00 am Pacific time, 12:00 pm Eastern time.
Call-in information will be given upon registration
Register before September 30th to obtain dial in information and background papers
This session is in English

SESSION FORMAT: 1 Hour
Welcome: 5 min
Presentations: 10 min by each speaker
Discussion: 25 minutes

Limited number of spaces available – Register soon!

For full speakers bios and for more information about this session, click here

The Canadian CED Network’s brief for House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance in preparation for next year’s budget provides recommendations for a sustainable economic, social and environmental future. It builds on the recommendations put forward at the 2010 National Summit on a People-Centred Economy.

Download: CCEDNet’s Pre-Budget Submission

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Canadian Social Economy Hub Telelearning Session 20: Building Strong Community University Partnerships

Thursday, September 16 2010, 8:45 – 9:45 am Pacific Time (11:45 am Eastern time)

The Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships are now in their final year, and SSHRC has recently launched its renewed program architecture including grants in support of formal partnerships. This telelearning session is an opportunity to consider how to build strong research partnerships, including:

What have we learned about building stronger partnerships from recent Community-University Research partnerships?
What do community organizations need to know before they enter a research partnership?
How will changes at SSHRC and other funding agencies affect future Community-University Research Partnerships?

SPEAKERS:

Jean-Marc Fontan, Professor of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Co-director of the Social Economy Community-University Research Alliance in Québec
John Anderson, Principal Investigator on the CURA Measuring the Co-operative Difference and Director of the CCA Governmental Affairs and Public Policy Unit
Murielle Gagnon, Director of Strategic programs and Joint Initiatives, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

MODERATOR:

Rupert Downing, is the former Executive Director of the Canadian CED Network and Co-director for the Canadian Social Economy Research Hub

For speakers biographies and for more information click here