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How Can We Embrace Organizational Transitions? When confronted with the resignation of an executive director, the parting of a founder, or a period of unusually high staff or board turnover, many organizations take the 'close-your-eyes-and-brace-yourself' approach. In this session, we will explore a healthier, more pro-active way of navigating periods of intense transition, highlighting successful practices from a variety of organizations from Montreal and Toronto, including the COCo and Santropol Roulant. So you want to fundraise but don’t know where to start? June 12, 2006, 9:00 - 16:30 Location: Loyola Campus, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal Partner: Institute in Management and Community Development (IMCD) So, you want to fundraise for your community organization? You have the motivation and the potential donors… but, do you have the right tools for the job? This half-day session will be rooted in the importance of developing sustainable and accessible means of reaching our fundraising objectives and will offer an overview of the tools of the trade. We will demonstrate that the most successful of campaigns can be launched with the most basic of desktop software, arts and crafts materials, a planning grid and some volunteer pizzazz! Healthy Non-Profit Practices June 14, 2006, 9:00 - 16:30 Location: Loyola Campus, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal Partner: Institute in Management and Community Development (IMCD) How do we define what 'healthy practices' are for our own organization? How do we have discussions about it? How do we work on the health of our organization in affirming, participatory ways? These questions will be explored through discussion and the sharing of tools and examples with a focus on taking our reflections of healthy practices back into our own organizations. Fundraising Workshop This workshop will address the need for organizations to attain fundraising sustainability. We will discuss strategic planning for fundraising (short-term vs. long-term) and define, really, what fundraising is all about. The presenters are Alex Megelas and Frances Ravensbergen from COCo. This workshop is intended for community groups and the general public. The presentation will be held in English but both presenters are bilingual and can answer your questions in either language. To receive additional information or to register, please contact George Courville, Coordinator of the Health and Social Services Partners Network – Townships-Montérégie, at gc@townshippers.qc.ca. Changing Times Forum Steering committee members include:
The overall objective of the Forum is to support English-speaking, bilingual and ethnocultural (ESBE) community groups to critically think and develop strategies for positive growth in the coming years in their own communities, in the larger Quebec ESBE community, and in the larger Quebec community groups’ community. By using a popular education approach where each community groups’ strengths and challenges can be shared in small groups, we’ll explore changes that are affecting the community sector and think strategically about how we can address these Changing Times.
Changing Trends identified and explored at the forum will include, among others: Ways to maximize partnerships in the growing mass of ‘regroupements’, ‘tables de concertations’, and other official partnerships; the funding “crisis” and what we can do about it as well as maintaining our autonomy in the process; Ways to adapt to changes in volunteering in our groups; What it means for our groups that there are huge shifts in population (aging, migrating populations, exoding youth).
Participants will leave with a host of exchanges and hopefully with tools to bring innovative strategies back to their respective groups.
Other trends that impact the sector today will act as a backdrop to thinking about the above trends: The whole discussion on ‘accomodements raisonables’, the changing face of governance in community groups, the emerging role of social economy non-profits, and working conditions in community groups.
Montreal BACC* on Track : The role and power
of the community Location: Edifice Georges Vanier, 2450 rue Workman (metro Lionel Groulx) On the heels of the Parc avenue debate, COCo brings you an event to help English-speaking, bilingual, and/or ethnocultural community groups in Montreal engage with our city, boroughs and neighbourhoods for social change. Whether your organization is completely isolated or is already participating with governance bodies that make up the City of Montreal, we hope that the day will nourish participants with information that will support them in their pursuit of a more inclusive participatory vision of the city. The day will include interactive workshops and exchange with special invitees, Dimitri Rosopoulos, who headed up the Montreal Citizens Charter task force and Sherry Simon, winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction for her book Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City. Join us as we:
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for the poster. Lunch will be provided. This is a FREE event, but space
is limited. To register or for more information, contact COCo at (514)
849-5599 | Toll free 1(866) 552-2626 | info@coco-net.org. V.I.P. Community Forum: Visibility, Influence, and
Participation Print Accompanying Documents English-speaking, bilingual, and ethnocultural (ESBE) community groups
whether in urban or rural areas are Quebec's best kept secret. It's time
for this to change. COCo's network of over 500 community groups is invited
to a half-day forum with the Ministère de l'emplois et de la solidarité
sociale (the Ministry responsible for community sector relations) and
key ministry staff of the Sécretariat de l'action communautaire
autonome (SACA) in order to: What is Civil Society Becoming? In this session we will take a critical look at the trend of increased institutionalization and professionalization of civil society. What does it mean to view the collection of people working towards a better society as a sector, the caring neighbour as a volunteer, the elderly person in need of a cooked meal as a client, and the helping hand as a service? As we become more organized are we becoming less effective at organizing? Join us to think about these questions and to imagine alternative ways of shaping civil society that respond more deeply to us as a community of people and not simply as a network of roles, positions, and professions. Alternative Governance
At the best of times, governance within small and medium-sized community groups remains a formidable challenge. Increasingly, nonprofit board members and staff alike are struggling with traditional board models that may be out of date for the life cycle of their organizations or the changing times in which we find ourselves. Surely, there have to be other more engaging ways of working. Some of the elements we will explore in this session include: alternative board structures, roles and accountability, power, engagement, organizational culture and dynamics. This session is designed for participants who have experience working with boards. Navigating Health and Social Services System Reforms
in Quebec At the upcoming CHSSN conference, COCo will host a workshop that will attempt to explain the current reforms to the health and social services system in Quebec and their implications for community groups. In addition, COCo will present an overview of the training program we have designed with the CHSSN on how communities can mobilize around these issues. This training program will commence in Fall 2006 and will tour in 10 regions of the province. The Social Economy: Why your organization should
care
In collaboration with the RISQ,
COCo will host a workshop to help demystify this evasive topic. Some of
the questions that will be explored include: What do we mean when we refer
to the "social economy". What are the different types of social
economy organizations? Would this be an opportunity to diversify your
organization's funding sources? What are the merits and the perils of
this sector? What are the various support organizations and funding bodies
working in the social economy? Participants will have the opportunity
to ask specific questions to social economy organizations in attendance. COCo's 5th Birthday Blowout! Join us as COCo celebrates 5 years of working, learning, and growing together in the Quebec community sector. We invite you to come and revel in the community's accomplishments, hear about COCo's future directions, see old friends and new... and of course, eat some birthday cake! The evening will include: linking with many of the 500+ organizations
of our network; live testimonials and roving camera; a few short and compelling
presentations; the COCo Trivia Game; and The Community Information Kiosk
The Non-profit Sector: Our Value/Our Message Are we greater than the sum of our parts? Join us for one of the 100 community conversations taking place across the country this fall as part of Imagine Canada's Voluntary Sector Awareness Project to explore the central role of the nonprofit sector in shaping the values at the heart of Canadian society. Our conversation will explore how the sector impacts on the social and economic fabric of this province in addition to how the sector could be more deeply understood and valued by the Quebec and Canadian public. The ideas and recommendations generated from our gathering will inform the creation of a national public campaign to promote the value of the nonprofit world and to increase its influence. Healthy Nonprofit Practices Workshop At the invitation of the local CEDEC and the Coasters Association, COCo conducted 2 workshops on community partnerships and healthy nonprofit practices. |
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