About the Gathering
The Gathering is an annual pay-what-you-can event where Manitoba’s community builders connect, learn, and celebrate success.
It is open to all from staff of community organizations, to students, funders, civil servants, academics, or anyone interested in community development and community economic development.
Join us on October 24, 2025 in Winnipeg!
For 23 years, Manitoba community builders have gathered every fall to learn from one another’s work, connect over a shared meal, and to celebrate the challenging but necessary practice of building stronger communities.
In community work, we are called to collaborate: with our colleagues, stakeholders, funders, community members, or across movements. The Gathering helps to facilitate, solidify, and forge greater collaboration between and among community builders.
It has been a privilege for us at the Canadian CED Network to host this event, and to hold the stories and history of our community sector. Thank you to every single person who has participated, volunteered, coordinated, presented, worked, sponsored, provided feedback or contributed energy to this event. It continues to exist because of you.
Registration will open in early September!
NETWORK & INFORMATION SHARING: connecting community builders to share our stories and foster partnerships
MENTORSHIP & PEER LEARNING:
community-led learning focused on practices and strategies to build more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable communities and economies
ACTION & INNOVATION: creating a space for sharing successes, challenges, and questions for community building work
AGENDA SETTING: reinvigorating efforts for change in our communities organizations
The Gathering has been hosted for 23 years, originally a project of CCEDNet Manitoba and United Way Winnipeg. Now, CCEDNet Manitoba hosts the event with support from a group of fantastic community leaders from a variety of organizations.
The 2022 Gathering was the first in-person Gathering since the start of the pandemic, and our time together focused on the power of JOY – how we use it to connect to each other and strengthen our community building organizations and movements.