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Join us for the
2012 Leveraging Our Strengths Conference.
Many of our community’s most pressing and complex social problems could be solved more quickly and effectively if nonprofits, foundations, governments, and businesses coordinated their efforts to focus on a common agenda.
Collective Impact Keynote
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Bronson Centre (211 Bronson Avenue)

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Collective Impact Workshops
Thursday, June 14, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Confederation Education Centre (1645 Woodroffe Avenue)

Join keynote speakers Paul Born (President and Co-Founder, Tamarack) and Tim Brodhead (Past President and CEO, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation) on June 13 for an introduction to the Collective Impact framework and approach, followed by in-depth workshop sessions on June 14. This two-day conference brings together community development practitioners from nonprofits, foundations, funders, corporations, and government to:

  • Explore the challenges and opportunities of collective impact and discuss how to accelerate the adoption of collective impact efforts in our community.
     
  • Present an excellent and affordable opportunity for community leaders, staff and volunteers to broaden their understanding of collective impact.
     
  • Acquire new skills to initiate and sustain collective impact initiatives for large scale social change.
     
  •  Provide an opportunity to network and share information.

Attendance at the keynote address is mandatory in order to participate in the workshop sessions but tickets to the keynote address can be bought separately.

For more information, contact Meghann Darroch at mdarroch@unitedwayottawa.ca or by phone at 613-683-8021.

Stay tuned for registration information!

 






Venez assister à la
Conférence 2012 Miser sur nos forces.
De nombreux problèmes sociaux urgents et complexes dans notre communauté pourraient être résolus plus rapidement et plus efficacement si les organismes sans but lucratif, les fondations, les pouvoirs publics et les entreprises coordonnaient leurs efforts pour faire front commun.
Discours sur l’impact collectif
Le mercredi 13 juin 2012
 De 18 h à 20 h
Centre Bronson (211, avenue Bronson)

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Ateliers sur l’impact collectif
Le jeudi 14 juin 2012
De 8 h 30 à 16 h
Confederation Education Centre (1645, avenue Woodroffe)

Le 13 juin, joignez-vous à nos deux conférenciers d’honneur,Paul Born (directeur et co-fondateur de Tamarack) et Tim Brodhead (président-directeur général sortant de la Fondation de la famille J.W. McConnell). Ceux-ci vous présenteront le cadre d’impact collectif et l’approche choisie. Des ateliers traitant de ces questions en profondeur auront lieu le 14 juin. Cette conférence de deux jours rassemblera des spécialistes du développement communautaire dans le secteur à but non lucratif, ainsi que des représentants des fondations, des donateurs, des entreprises et des pouvoirs publics concernés. Elle vise à :

  • Explorer les défis liés à l’impact collectif et les occasions d’utiliser cette méthode, et à discuter de la façon dont il est possible d’accélérer l’adoption du cadre d’impact collectif dans notre communauté.
     
  • Offrir une excellente occasion pour les leaders communautaires, les employés et les bénévoles d’approfondir leurs connaissances sur l’impact collectif, et ce, de façon accessible.
     
  • Acquérir de nouvelles compétences pour lancer et appuyer des initiatives sur l'impact collectif, afin d’obtenir un changement social à grande échelle.
     
  • Donner une occasion de faire du réseautage et de partager des informations.

Il est obligatoire d’assister au discours et à la présentation pour prendre part aux ateliers. Cependant, les billets pour assister au discours peuvent être achetés séparément.

Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez contacter Meghann Darroch à l’adresse mdarroch@centraideottawa.ca ou par téléphone au 613-683-8021.

Des détails sur l’inscription seront envoyés ultérieurement.


 


Save the Date!

The Principles for Responsible Investing Academic Network will once again hold its annual conference in Canada.  After two years in Europe, the PRI Academic network will return to Canada in 2012 for its annual conference, October 1st to 3rd 2012 at York University, Toronto. Co-hosted by CBERN with assistance from the Responsible Investing Initiative, the 2012 conference promises to be bigger than ever! The Responsible Investing Initiative will use this opportunity to bring together all its research partners for a half-day symposium featuring the new research we have carried out over this year.      


Events from the Recent Past

2011 PRI-Mistra Academic Conference

Tessa Hebb and three 3ci graduate students, Heather Hachigian, Gabriel Huppe and Hugues Letourneau present 4 new papers on responsible investing at the Annual Principles for Responsible Investing Academic Network Conference held September 26th to 28th in Sigtuna, Stockholm.  3ci had the single largest contingent of students at the conference, marking the important role that graduate students play in our research.  Abstracts and presentations are available.

(Photos courtesy Hugues Letourneau)


March 2nd, 2011
3ci Symposium
Leveraging Private Capital for Public Good

Carleton University
9:00 am to 3 pm
Co-sponsored with the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development

December 2nd, 2010 2 pm – 3 pm

3ci and the Canadian Community Investment Network (CCINC) host
Lessons for Community Finance for the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
Webinar with Michael Swack

Michael Swack is a Professor at the University of New Hampshire where he has appointments at the Carsey Institute and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.  He is convener of the Financial Innovations Roundtable (FIR) that he describes as “not only a think tank, but a “think-do” tank. Some of the most successful ideas developed at the FIR have been implemented, resulting in new tools, policies and practices that have resulted in millions of dollars being directed into investments in affordable housing, small and minority businesses, community facilities and other community development efforts.” Michael will bring insights from his new book, Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk.

Please click here to access “Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk” by Charles Tansey, Michael Swack and Michael Tansey.


 

October 14, 2010

Welcoming Jed Emerson to Carleton

(From L to R) George Brown (OCLF), Jed Emerson, Tessa Hebb (3ci), Francois Brouard (SCSE), Margie Mendell (Concordia)

On October 14th, 2010, The Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Sprott Centre for Social Enterprises, and the Ottawa Community Loan Fund hosted a seminar with the well known thought leader on social finance and blended value, Jed Emerson.

Jed Emerson has extensive experience leading, staffing and advising funds, firms, social ventures and foundations pursuing financial performance with social/environmental impact. He is an internationally recognized Thought Leader in sustainability and sustainable finance, blended value, impact investing, social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy. Emerson has played founder roles with some of the nation's leading venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises.  He is a Senior Fellow with Generation Investment Management (David Blood and Al Gore) and a Senior fellow with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. 

The hour and a half -hour session explored social finance, impact investing, mission-based investing, and social return on investment.  In the near future, we will post excerps of the video and Jed's presentation. Please check back soon.

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