A conversation of hope from the frontlines of extinction: An hour-long webinar with author Sarah Cox, climate storyteller Chloë Fraser and Ecojustice lawyers Imalka Nilmalgoda and Kegan Pepper-Smith.

In the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change, what will it take to win? And how can the law save species from extinction?

On May 15, 4:30PM PST | 7:30PM EST, join investigative journalist Sarah Cox, as we discuss findings from her new book, Signs of Life: Fieldnotes from the Frontlines of Extinction. The 60-minute chat will include a Q&A at the end, if time allows.

https://ecojustice.ca/home/events/

Did You Know:

• The Portlands Gas plant is the largest source of harmful airborne Nitrogen Oxides in Toronto?

• In 2023, the Portlands Gas Plant operated an average of 14 hours/day, despite previous government assurances that the plant was designed to be a “ peaker “ plant and run a maximum of four hours/day?

• In the summer of 2023, the Portlands Gas Plant operated an average of 21 hours/day?

• The Portlands Gas Plant single-handedly raised the city’s electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent in one year, making it challenging for the city to meet its climate protection targets?

Come and learn more about the plant’s impacts on our community’s health and how we can work together to shut it down. There are alternatives to ensure we can keep the lights on and our air cleaner.

Featured speakers:

• Dr. Mili Roy, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)

• Peter Tabuns, MPP for Toronto-Danforth

• Paula Fletcher, Toronto-Danforth City Councillor

• Community Resident, member of TERRE

https://terrecoalition.ca/2024/03/25/portlands-gas-plant-expansion-preventing-health-risks-in-our-community/

Cost: $50 for the series (Free registration for a limited number of BIPOC ENGO participants. If you are able to pay the registration fee we encourage you to do so. This leaves the complimentary BIPOC registrations for organizations in greater need.)

*All participants will receive a confirmation email from TicketTailor with a link to join the meetings on Zoom. All registrants will receive access to a recording of the workshops, following each session, 60 days access.

Looking to reach and bring more young people into your organization and opportunities? Apathy is Boring is excited to deliver this series of three workshops to help you do just that!

As of 2021, there are over 7 million young people in Canada between the ages of 15 and 29, and they are the country's most diverse and educated demographic group. As youth experts and youth, Apathy is Boring knows the power and value of activating youth. Across all sectors, we depend heavily on the next generation's innovation, creativity, and ingenuity to enliven our work and shape and define the world of tomorrow.

Whether you’re hoping to reach youth as staff, clients, volunteers, supporters, donors, board members, or maybe even your next Executive Director or CEO, you will need a comprehensive and targeted strategy to reach, engage and retain young people. After working with youth for 20 years, Apathy is Boring has developed the Youth Friendly Program to help organizations invest their time, energy and resources to uplift and activate young people in their spaces.

They’ll dig into how to reach youth through outreach and social media, and how to create projects and programs that make space for them as leaders and decision makers. By the end, you’ll gain a better understanding of how best to reach & retain youth in your organizations.

Workshop 1: Intentional Interactions & You(th): Reaching Youth Where They’re At

May 15, 100-2:15 ET

This workshop is the first step in youth engagement, specifically regarding outreach, using design-thinking activities and tools. We’ll first explore organizations’ struggles with recruitment and what they hope to do for youth engagement in their spaces. We will then examine, using Apathy is Boring examples, different strategies to reach and recruit youth in various settings. At the end of the session, attendees will make a concrete outreach plan to execute within 6 months to a year. There will be 10-15 minutes for questions and answers at the end.

Key Learning Objectives:

- Increase organizational knowledge on best practices to recruit youth, using youth-led democratic innovation

- Increase organizational capacity to recruit youth as program participants, volunteers, employees, board of directors, and leadership

- Develop an action plan for organizations to follow to increase youth engagement in their spaces

Workshop 2: Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Recruit Youth

May 22, 100-2:15 ET

This workshop will build on what was learned from the previous week around recruitment and outreach, but specifically focus on social media. Social media is an excellent tool and resource to connect with and invite diverse youth into your virtual or physical spaces.

This session will allow organizations participating to share challenges in reaching youth through social media, engaging them towards activities, and getting to a co-creation space. Using research around youth segmentation, we’ll explore the top social media channels young people use: Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Discord, along with strategies for organizations to use to recruit and reach youth online. Again, there will be 10-15 minutes for questions and answers at the end.

Key Learning Objectives:

- Increase knowledge on how to effectively utilize social media and online resources to connect with diverse youth

- Increase organizational capacity to recruit youth as program participants, volunteers, employees, board of directors, and leadership

- Increase organizational knowledge on best practices to recruit youth, using youth-led democratic innovation

- Develop an action plan for organizations to follow to increase youth engagement on their social media

Workshop 3: Youth as Decision-Makers: Creating Meaningful Opportunities

May 29, 100-2:15 ET

After exploring recruitment strategies, how one engages youth is a matter of the programs, projects, and roles offered. They will dive into creating meaningful opportunities for youth: how organizations can ensure young people are excited to participate and how organizations can avoid tokenizing their youth.

They will explore the Youth-Led Democratic Innovation model and how it can be strategically used to connect with youth and allow you to innovate in your organizations. We will also use this final session to address some of your questions and concerns about creating meaningful engagement opportunities for youth in your organization.

Key Learning Objectives:

- Increase organizational knowledge on best practices to engage and retain youth in organizational projects, initiatives and programs through youth-led democratic innovation

- ENGOs are aware of practices and policies to facilitate the elimination of barriers to youth participation and leaving knowing how they can implement these

- ENGOs are engaged and invested in improving youth engagement, whether in sustainability or democracy areas

- ENGOs develop an action plan for one of their projects or initiatives to increase youth-as-decision-makers opportunities

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sustainabilitynetwork/1212455

Tamarack Institute

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Your collective impact effort should advance systems change. learn how and why.

Join us for this new, two-part  virtual workshop designed to help you to design, implement and renew a  successful Collective  Impact Initiative.  This workshop will profile  lessons from practitioners about how to achieve high-impact results and will focus specifically on the importance of bringing a systems lens to Collective Impact in order to explicitly incorporate both programmatic AND  systems-change strategies into Collective Impact implementation plans.

This two-part virtual workshop is ideal for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge about effectively designing, implementing or renewing a  Collective Impact initiative with an emphasis on addressing the system barriers that are contributing to -- and perpetuating -- the very issues that  programs are being designed to address.   Participants will gain a solid understanding of the theory AND practice of Collective Impact, along with the necessary tools and resources to launch, lead, and sustain a successful Collective Impact effort.

The workshop’s highly interactive curriculum provides participants with opportunities to deepen their understanding of what it means to change systems and why and how to incorporate a systems perspective into your Collective Impact initiative.  Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences and challenges and leave this learning experience with greater understanding and new ideas, for how to effectively lead and facilitate a resilient Collective Impact initiative through the five phases of its maturity.

Implementing the Collective Impact framework is NOT a recipe.  Adapting it to your specific issue and the uniqueness of your community realities is a MUST that requires skill and artful leadership.  Co-developing  your understanding and awareness of the systems change dimensions is an important aspect to ensuring the impact and sustainability of your Collective Impact Initiative.  Invest in strengthening your practice in leading, facilitating, and sustaining your collective impact initiative as a catalyst to mobilize change simultaneously at both a community and systems level.

Tamarack Institute

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Social connections are fundamental to build strong pathways that help individuals and communities move forward, particularly during moments of uncertainty. In these times of increasing social isolation and disconnection, community champions are demonstrating bold leadership and a commitment towards achieving more equitable futures for everyone. As we reflect on the leadership of community champions, we want to celebrate youth leaders who continue to mobilize their communities to build belonging and improve outcomes for youth.

Join us for a conversation with a group of inspiring youth leaders from our Communities Building Youth Futures movement to explore what belonging looks like from their perspectives, uncover the conditions that are needed to build authentic relationships and a sense of connectedness between youth and their community, and share lessons learned on how communities can foster belonging among youth.

Toronto City Council has adopted a bold strategy to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Toronto to net zero by 2040, one of the most ambitious targets in North America. To reach net zero emissions by 2040, more than 400,000 homes in Toronto must be renovated, and the City is committed to providing support to help homeowners get to net zero!

The Ask an Expert webinar series aims to provide Toronto homeowners access to experts in the renovation industry, including HVAC (heat pump) experts, energy advisors, and contractors.

My neighbour just installed a heat pump; what is it, and how does it work? When should I consider purchasing a heat pump? This webinar will discuss everything you need to know about heat pumps. Join the City of Toronto at the National Home Show from March 8 - 17 for a closer look at the heat pumps.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/air-source-heat-pump-101-tickets-853153895267?aff=oddtdtcreator

Addressing energy poverty with climate action

Energy inequity is an urgent public health issue and climate issue. Energy poverty – broadly understood as the lack of adequate energy services to provide basic needs – has a range of social and health impacts and has been linked to health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and respiratory conditions. Energy retrofits for homes can address energy poverty by reducing energy waste, reducing monthly household bills, and improving thermal comfort while, at the same time, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, energy retrofits can also worsen energy poverty if they are implemented solely to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions without considering energy inequities. This talk will focus on Dr. Tozer’s recent work on how to catalyze equity-oriented energy transitions. She will present qualitative community-based and policy-engaged research on how energy retrofit programs can play a role in effectively addressing energy poverty in Canada and on orienting policy using a vulnerability-based approach to address the determinants of energy poverty while working towards a livable climate.

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About the speaker

Laura Tozer is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Laura directs the IMPACT Lab which is a community-based and policy-engaged research group focused on environmental politics and governance to address climate change. She has researched the planning and implementation of just, zero carbon, and resilient transitions in cities; the politics of transnational urban climate governance; and justice in the transition to renewable energy.

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About The School of Cities

School of Cities leverages urban data and lived experience to improve policy and decision-making, and collaborates with communities to make cities and urban regions more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive and just.

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The School of Cities is committed to making its programs accessible to persons with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please write to outreach.sofc@utoronto.ca at least 48 hours prior to the program with information regarding the requested accommodation.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/knowledge-cafe-addressing-energy-poverty-with-climate-action-tickets-880182027137?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Get ready to talk about simultaneously building much more housing and infrastructure while rapidly reducing total embodied GHG emissions.

How can Canada meet the simultaneous challenges of scaling up its infrastructure and housing to keep pace with population growth while also achieving ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

Join the Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment for its first Embodied GHG Symposium. This half day event will explore solutions to building more housing and infrastructure with less greenhouse gas pollution. Interactive sessions and speakers will address total embodied emissions at the scale of the city, recognizing that to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change we have to build sustainably beyond per building or m².

Embodied GHG Symposium will present the latest embodied GHG research, policy, case studies, and prove opportunitites for networking with industry professionals, academics and policymakers. During the embodied GHG symposium we will have a poster session presenting research and case studies along the theme of reducing resource use and embodied GHG in the construction sector. The work can be at the building, multiple building, infrastructure, neighbourhood, city, regional and/or national scale for any country. The work must deal with embodied GHG and/or resource use the AEC sector.

If you would like to present a poster please submit an abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK-Jz12_HjWl6Xf0D0pwGtIq9eTDXifmcrKBOGB3u4rmHfNg/viewform?usp=sf_link

So come in out of the rain and into the warmth of wonderful stories and an awesome community. We are requesting everyone to register. This is so we can have a very clear idea of numbers. It helps us to organize the safest event for you. Tickets are free but if possible please bring a snack for the snack table.

Here are the details:

• Doors are at 8pm and show begins promptly at 9pm

• We kindly ask that you stay at home if you are feeling unwell.

• We celebrate masks, although they are optional.

• If you can bring a snack for the snack table that would be greatly appreciated.

• BYOB - drinks and snacks.

About Stories We Don't Tell: There are some stories that we get really good at telling, we tell them to our friends, our coworkers, and even strangers at parties. We tell them because they are a part of us, and in doing so they build up our sense of self. There are also stories we don’t tell, maybe because they’re sad, or weird, or just a little too intimate. These truths are just as much a part of who we are, despite being erased from our day-to-day conversation. The Stories We Don’t Tell is a live event that gives you a window into experiences that are so often left unseen. If you're interested in telling a story with us at a future event please fill out this form.

We are incredibly excited to be working with this month's guest producer Veronica Antipolo!

"As a cheerleader of people and with the experience of my personal storytelling journey combined with in-depth research, I hope to build community, bring awareness to, celebrate and acknowledge the diversity of human experience."

If you have any questions or concerns, please email or message the organizers. We look forward to welcoming you on May 11th!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thestorieswedonttell/1217323

We're back again this Saturday from 9-11am for another #compostday. I will be meeting residents at Goldhawk Park and
helping to kick-start your gardens with free compost (just be sure to bring your own container!)

You can also come by just to say hello!
Hope to see you there!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6or404t0xy/

Engagement Organizing 101: A Series of Six Two-Hour Sessions on People Power and Your ENGO

Hosted by: Sustainability Network

Fri 5 Apr 2024 1:00 PM - Fri 10 May 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Online, Zoom

Dates: Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2024 from 1-3 PM ET

Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Cost: $75

All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and the presentation slides following each session. Please note, all participants will receive a confirmation email from TicketTailor with a link to join the meetings in Zoom.

Engagement organizing (EO) involves building your organization’s people power by identifying and recruiting people who share your organization’s interests, cultivating relationships with them, and supporting them in specific ways to volunteer, donate and advocate for your cause.

It allows organizations to scale up their efforts with the help of digital technologies and a shift in management roles to support ever greater levels of volunteer participation and leadership. The result is resilient, robust and effective organizations that operate at a level much higher than those who follow conventional organizing approaches.

Through EO 101, participants will learn the basics of engagement organizing, how to help your organization to become a people-powered organization and how to apply EO in your day-to-day work life while advancing the mission of your organization.

Session #1: Introduction to Engagement Organizing - April 5, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

This session offers the big picture of EO and why we need to organize. This session will highlight several success stories in the environmental movement. You will learn the importance of storytelling when transitioning to people power organizations.

Session #2: Engagement Organizing Elements - April 12, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will learn about EO elements and link the mission and vision of your organization to engagement organizing methodology. We will cover how to develop effective Theory of Change and engagement pyramids. The basic elements of engagement pyramids and paths such as recruitment, mobilization and distributed leadership that allow your organization to meaningfully engage people, gain more power that eventually leads to change will be introduced.

Session #3: Recruitment and Mobilization - April 19, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

In this session we will focus on the recruitment and mobilization levels of the pyramid and develop lists, strategies and paths associated within these levels of engagement.

Session #4: Distributed Leadership - April 26, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will dive into the distributed leadership potential within your organizations, particularly focused on volunteers. We will unpack the volunteers and leadership power base, volunteers’ stewardship and long-term engagement. We will also touch on the readiness for a culture shift and its barriers.

Session #5: Pathways and People Management, Advocacy - May 3, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Participants will learn about how to use and track the power within their organization to influence decision-makers. Some of the topics include importance and strategies of tracking your supporters, how to handle and use data, databases, and the digital environment for change, how to integrate digital tools, and how to set milestones, metrics, and dashboards. In this session, participants will be able to tie everything together and see the connection between the EO methodology, people power and how they can advance their organization and their cause through EO.

Session #6: Tying It All Together and Where to Go From Here - May 10, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET - Voluntary session

This session is for participants who are interested to share their engagement organizing plans with the rest of the class and to get feedback from the instructor and colleagues.

‍OUR PRESENTER
The series will be delivered by Renata Woodward who is a seasoned land trust practitioner who has spent most of her career working to protect the environment. She has worked as an executive director with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick and is currently executive director of the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts. She is a consultant who helps non-governmental organizations with engagement organizing, capacity building, fund-raising, land conservation, and policy development. She is a progressive leader, effective decision-maker, visionary, great communicator, and manager who can display sound judgment and bring the best out of a team of passionate and diverse people. She continues to work on advancing environmental protection in Canada. She's lived, studied, and worked in Czechia, England, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. ‍

Webinar Series - $75

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​Your organization could undoubtedly use funding for more impact, but how can you generate revenue of your own? We invite you to participate in this 10 Things You Need to Know About Revenue session as we discuss ways to drive sustainable revenue and maximize your impact. Having sustainable revenue will not only help keep your team feel valued and fairly compensated, but will ultimately increase your overall impact. Dive into this foundational session that combines social impact and business principles. Explore questions like:

​How do you determine the best revenue model for you?

​How do you identify a problem and create the solution for your ideal customer?

​How do you incorporate the impact in your brand and marketing?

​How do you utilize your current capacity and resources and how do you gain more?

​Whether you're a seasoned leader or a budding changemaker within a nonprofit, charity, or social impact organization, there’s something to be learned from this session.

​About the Series
This online event is part of a complimentary series of talks and Q&A sessions featuring curated trainers from The Good Growth Company roster, each sharing 10 things nonprofit organizations and charities need to know about a given topic — from messaging to measuring impact. The series is designed for leaders and within nonprofits, charities and social impact organizations.

​Session Format:
Presentation: 10 Tips Talk
Q&A: Ask Your Questions
Length: 45-Minutes to 1 Hour

​About the Speaker
​​Kim Kirton is an experienced and passionate social entrepreneur who thrives on bringing ideas to life and enabling social impact. Kim considers her curiosity a superpower, and by asking questions and learning, she sparks her creativity into new ideas.

​About the Host
The Good Growth Company is an upskilling company for non-profit organizations and purpose-driven businesses seeking to invest in their people to help scale their mission. Boost your social impact and level up your team with targeted workshops and more. Get started here.

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Join Terra Elysium for a lively virtual workshop exploring the fascinating world of urban wildlife in Toronto! Discover the charming “trash pandas” (raccoons), the industrious squirrels, and other critters that call our city home. Learn how these animals adapt to urban life and the challenges they face in our ever-changing environment.

Through engaging discussions and interactive activities, we’ll unveil the intricate relationships between humans and wildlife, and explore practical strategies for conservation. Whether you’re a nature enthusiast or simply curious about the creatures in your backyard, this workshop is your gateway to understanding and appreciating Toronto’s wild side. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with nature from the comfort of your home!

Event Date:

May 8th, 2024 @ 6:30 – 9:00 PM EST.

Event Details:

This event will be held virtually via Zoom. After submitting this Google Form, all participants will receive an email and Google Calendar invitation containing a link to the Zoom workshop, which can be accessed on the date and time of the event. For an optimal experience, please join from a quiet room and ensure you have a working microphone. It is recommended that you turn on your camera to engage with our team and other participants.

https://terraelysium.ca/toronto-wildlife-workshop-1/

Tamarack Institute

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Your collective impact effort should advance systems change. learn how and why.

Join us for this new, two-part  virtual workshop designed to help you to design, implement and renew a  successful Collective  Impact Initiative.  This workshop will profile  lessons from practitioners about how to achieve high-impact results and will focus specifically on the importance of bringing a systems lens to Collective Impact in order to explicitly incorporate both programmatic AND  systems-change strategies into Collective Impact implementation plans.

This two-part virtual workshop is ideal for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge about effectively designing, implementing or renewing a  Collective Impact initiative with an emphasis on addressing the system barriers that are contributing to -- and perpetuating -- the very issues that  programs are being designed to address.   Participants will gain a solid understanding of the theory AND practice of Collective Impact, along with the necessary tools and resources to launch, lead, and sustain a successful Collective Impact effort.

The workshop’s highly interactive curriculum provides participants with opportunities to deepen their understanding of what it means to change systems and why and how to incorporate a systems perspective into your Collective Impact initiative.  Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences and challenges and leave this learning experience with greater understanding and new ideas, for how to effectively lead and facilitate a resilient Collective Impact initiative through the five phases of its maturity.

Implementing the Collective Impact framework is NOT a recipe.  Adapting it to your specific issue and the uniqueness of your community realities is a MUST that requires skill and artful leadership.  Co-developing  your understanding and awareness of the systems change dimensions is an important aspect to ensuring the impact and sustainability of your Collective Impact Initiative.  Invest in strengthening your practice in leading, facilitating, and sustaining your collective impact initiative as a catalyst to mobilize change simultaneously at both a community and systems level.

Reserve a Spot

ReMode is where you come to learn how to keep your clothes in use for as long as possible through the 7R’s of Fashion. 

The Marketplace shines the light on the #nonewclothes movement, with vendors focused on reuse, resale, repurposing, rental and repair.

The Swap is where you come to trade your unwanted clothes with others.

The Talks feature industry experts and influencers throughout the day to help you learn more about how to reduce your fashion footprint through what you buy and how you care for your clothes. 

Engagement Organizing 101: A Series of Six Two-Hour Sessions on People Power and Your ENGO

Hosted by: Sustainability Network

Fri 5 Apr 2024 1:00 PM - Fri 10 May 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Online, Zoom

Dates: Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2024 from 1-3 PM ET

Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Cost: $75

All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and the presentation slides following each session. Please note, all participants will receive a confirmation email from TicketTailor with a link to join the meetings in Zoom.

Engagement organizing (EO) involves building your organization’s people power by identifying and recruiting people who share your organization’s interests, cultivating relationships with them, and supporting them in specific ways to volunteer, donate and advocate for your cause.

It allows organizations to scale up their efforts with the help of digital technologies and a shift in management roles to support ever greater levels of volunteer participation and leadership. The result is resilient, robust and effective organizations that operate at a level much higher than those who follow conventional organizing approaches.

Through EO 101, participants will learn the basics of engagement organizing, how to help your organization to become a people-powered organization and how to apply EO in your day-to-day work life while advancing the mission of your organization.

Session #1: Introduction to Engagement Organizing - April 5, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

This session offers the big picture of EO and why we need to organize. This session will highlight several success stories in the environmental movement. You will learn the importance of storytelling when transitioning to people power organizations.

Session #2: Engagement Organizing Elements - April 12, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will learn about EO elements and link the mission and vision of your organization to engagement organizing methodology. We will cover how to develop effective Theory of Change and engagement pyramids. The basic elements of engagement pyramids and paths such as recruitment, mobilization and distributed leadership that allow your organization to meaningfully engage people, gain more power that eventually leads to change will be introduced.

Session #3: Recruitment and Mobilization - April 19, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

In this session we will focus on the recruitment and mobilization levels of the pyramid and develop lists, strategies and paths associated within these levels of engagement.

Session #4: Distributed Leadership - April 26, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will dive into the distributed leadership potential within your organizations, particularly focused on volunteers. We will unpack the volunteers and leadership power base, volunteers’ stewardship and long-term engagement. We will also touch on the readiness for a culture shift and its barriers.

Session #5: Pathways and People Management, Advocacy - May 3, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Participants will learn about how to use and track the power within their organization to influence decision-makers. Some of the topics include importance and strategies of tracking your supporters, how to handle and use data, databases, and the digital environment for change, how to integrate digital tools, and how to set milestones, metrics, and dashboards. In this session, participants will be able to tie everything together and see the connection between the EO methodology, people power and how they can advance their organization and their cause through EO.

Session #6: Tying It All Together and Where to Go From Here - May 10, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET - Voluntary session

This session is for participants who are interested to share their engagement organizing plans with the rest of the class and to get feedback from the instructor and colleagues.

‍OUR PRESENTER
The series will be delivered by Renata Woodward who is a seasoned land trust practitioner who has spent most of her career working to protect the environment. She has worked as an executive director with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick and is currently executive director of the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts. She is a consultant who helps non-governmental organizations with engagement organizing, capacity building, fund-raising, land conservation, and policy development. She is a progressive leader, effective decision-maker, visionary, great communicator, and manager who can display sound judgment and bring the best out of a team of passionate and diverse people. She continues to work on advancing environmental protection in Canada. She's lived, studied, and worked in Czechia, England, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. ‍

Webinar Series - $75

Contact the event organiser

May 1, CALL Learning Meeting – Register Now

Join Climate Action for Lifelong Leaners on May 1 at 10:00 a.m. on Zoom for an opportunity to learn about and discuss Climate change adaptation and resilience:

What is to be done?

Activists rightly prioritize reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the fight against climate change. However successful we are in reducing emissions,

climate change is already endangering us and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We need to understand these dangers and advocate for action that makes our communities less vulnerable. Dr. Jennifer Penney will fill us in on some ways to make our communities more adaptive and resilient and what the federal and provincial governments are doing (or not doing) to get us there.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:

You will receive an email confirmation with your personal Zoom link to join the meeting.

Strategy 101 Workshop

Date & Time: Apr 30, 2024 07:00 PM in Toronto

Hosted by: Le Hub (The Climate Justice Organizing HUB)

The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with frameworks and decision-making tools that help guide groups collaboratively towards creating solid strategies.

This interactive workshop is not just a primer on the principles of solid strategy, but also a session meant to help participants find a balance between the desire for a collaborative, democratic decision making process and the need to focus and narrow down to create successful strategic goals.

This workshop was created because this topic has been requested often by climate justice organizers. The curriculum material was drawn from a collaboration between several senior movement thinkers including Amara Possian and Tom Liacas, and also draws on sources and wisdom from many other folks in the Momentum Training Community, Mobilisation Lab and Blueprints for Change.

Register here!

The Climate Justice Organizing HUB is a project of the Small Change Fund.

Engagement Organizing 101: A Series of Six Two-Hour Sessions on People Power and Your ENGO

Hosted by: Sustainability Network

Fri 5 Apr 2024 1:00 PM - Fri 10 May 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Online, Zoom

Dates: Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2024 from 1-3 PM ET

Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Cost: $75

All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and the presentation slides following each session. Please note, all participants will receive a confirmation email from TicketTailor with a link to join the meetings in Zoom.

Engagement organizing (EO) involves building your organization’s people power by identifying and recruiting people who share your organization’s interests, cultivating relationships with them, and supporting them in specific ways to volunteer, donate and advocate for your cause.

It allows organizations to scale up their efforts with the help of digital technologies and a shift in management roles to support ever greater levels of volunteer participation and leadership. The result is resilient, robust and effective organizations that operate at a level much higher than those who follow conventional organizing approaches.

Through EO 101, participants will learn the basics of engagement organizing, how to help your organization to become a people-powered organization and how to apply EO in your day-to-day work life while advancing the mission of your organization.

Session #1: Introduction to Engagement Organizing - April 5, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

This session offers the big picture of EO and why we need to organize. This session will highlight several success stories in the environmental movement. You will learn the importance of storytelling when transitioning to people power organizations.

Session #2: Engagement Organizing Elements - April 12, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will learn about EO elements and link the mission and vision of your organization to engagement organizing methodology. We will cover how to develop effective Theory of Change and engagement pyramids. The basic elements of engagement pyramids and paths such as recruitment, mobilization and distributed leadership that allow your organization to meaningfully engage people, gain more power that eventually leads to change will be introduced.

Session #3: Recruitment and Mobilization - April 19, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

In this session we will focus on the recruitment and mobilization levels of the pyramid and develop lists, strategies and paths associated within these levels of engagement.

Session #4: Distributed Leadership - April 26, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will dive into the distributed leadership potential within your organizations, particularly focused on volunteers. We will unpack the volunteers and leadership power base, volunteers’ stewardship and long-term engagement. We will also touch on the readiness for a culture shift and its barriers.

Session #5: Pathways and People Management, Advocacy - May 3, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Participants will learn about how to use and track the power within their organization to influence decision-makers. Some of the topics include importance and strategies of tracking your supporters, how to handle and use data, databases, and the digital environment for change, how to integrate digital tools, and how to set milestones, metrics, and dashboards. In this session, participants will be able to tie everything together and see the connection between the EO methodology, people power and how they can advance their organization and their cause through EO.

Session #6: Tying It All Together and Where to Go From Here - May 10, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET - Voluntary session

This session is for participants who are interested to share their engagement organizing plans with the rest of the class and to get feedback from the instructor and colleagues.

‍OUR PRESENTER
The series will be delivered by Renata Woodward who is a seasoned land trust practitioner who has spent most of her career working to protect the environment. She has worked as an executive director with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick and is currently executive director of the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts. She is a consultant who helps non-governmental organizations with engagement organizing, capacity building, fund-raising, land conservation, and policy development. She is a progressive leader, effective decision-maker, visionary, great communicator, and manager who can display sound judgment and bring the best out of a team of passionate and diverse people. She continues to work on advancing environmental protection in Canada. She's lived, studied, and worked in Czechia, England, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. ‍

Webinar Series - $75

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Since 2010, we have been training Canadian volunteers to lobby for Climate Income. The facts are clear that

1. Carbon pricing is a keystone policy for reducing GHGs

2. Giving the money back to the people reduces income inequality

3. Other policies are needed to reach liveable world for all.

We are getting ready to lobby June 3 and June 4 and throughout June. In the spring of 2024 our volunteers have chosen to lobby for the following:

1. Getting Canada ready for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms - Improvements to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act

2. Climate Aligned Finance - Strong Clean Energy Regulations and regulations for caps in on emissions in the Oil and Gas sector

3. Strict limitations on advertising from fossil fuel companies akin to what was done with tobacco

Learn how to talk about carbon pricing like a pro, how do fortify Canada's climate policies and how to work with others to build political will for a liveable world using our proven methodology.

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Many young people face barriers and challenges on the journey through high school and onto further education and/or employment. Having basic needs met, positive relationships with trusted adults, access to an array of well-coordinated support services and relationships with adult allies as well as alternative pathways to a desired future can inspire hope and offer the encouragement needed to transform one’s trajectory.

Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) is a national network of 20 small, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities that – individually and together – are on a learning journey to better understand barriers that young people face. Using the Collective Impact Framework, these initiatives mobilize and unite entire communities to work with young people to identify, prototype and co-develop new approaches to promote youth success.  

In this webinar, the Tamarack Institute's CBYF Director Angelina Pelletier joins Sylvia Cheuy to share highlights and insights from the first four years of CBYF’s learning network.

More about Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF)

In partnership with young people and informed by their insights and needs, each CBYF community has mobilized multiple sectors and engaged its entire community to create new opportunities and prototype innovative initiatives that provide young people with the supports they need to complete high school and build plans for bright futures. The insights and successes achieved for youth within each of the CBYF local communities are inspiring AND they are only part of the story. These 20 communities have not only developed a deeper understanding of youth needs and solutions, but they have also been catalysts for systems-level impacts that are changing our collective understanding of what young people need to thrive; what’s important about how that is done; what communities can accomplish by working together; and, how actors in youth serving systems can better promote youth success.

Join us for a dynamic conversation about what it takes – and what becomes possible – when whole communities are mobilized to creatively reimagine new solutions with and for young people.    

Learn More: 

• Learn more about Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF)

• Discover the member communities of the CBYF National Learning Network 

• Read CBYF’s Community Innovation Fund Impact Report

• Explore the Tamarack article Interconnected Practices for Community and Systems Impact

Green 13 and PHP4 Climate Action invite you to a discussion on heat pumps and more including selection and installation considerations.

It is that time of year, when we come together as a community for a Spring cleaning! Businesses, residents, local organizations and the City are working together to coordinate supplies, arrange garbage pick up and celebrating afterwards. 

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Sign up as an individual member and we can connect you with a crew or you can sign up your own crew. We're providing free cleaning supplies (garbage bags, gloves) and a wrap party invite to all the Clean up Crews. 

Pick up supplies: Saturday, April 20, 10am to 2pm. Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen Street East 

Wrap Party for Clean Up Crews: Saturday, April 20, 1-2 pm. Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen Street East.

NOTE: We are also arranging for specialized crews to assist with hazards. This will be explained when you pick-up supplies.

Engagement Organizing 101: A Series of Six Two-Hour Sessions on People Power and Your ENGO

Hosted by: Sustainability Network

Fri 5 Apr 2024 1:00 PM - Fri 10 May 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Online, Zoom

Dates: Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2024 from 1-3 PM ET

Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Cost: $75

All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and the presentation slides following each session. Please note, all participants will receive a confirmation email from TicketTailor with a link to join the meetings in Zoom.

Engagement organizing (EO) involves building your organization’s people power by identifying and recruiting people who share your organization’s interests, cultivating relationships with them, and supporting them in specific ways to volunteer, donate and advocate for your cause.

It allows organizations to scale up their efforts with the help of digital technologies and a shift in management roles to support ever greater levels of volunteer participation and leadership. The result is resilient, robust and effective organizations that operate at a level much higher than those who follow conventional organizing approaches.

Through EO 101, participants will learn the basics of engagement organizing, how to help your organization to become a people-powered organization and how to apply EO in your day-to-day work life while advancing the mission of your organization.

Session #1: Introduction to Engagement Organizing - April 5, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

This session offers the big picture of EO and why we need to organize. This session will highlight several success stories in the environmental movement. You will learn the importance of storytelling when transitioning to people power organizations.

Session #2: Engagement Organizing Elements - April 12, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will learn about EO elements and link the mission and vision of your organization to engagement organizing methodology. We will cover how to develop effective Theory of Change and engagement pyramids. The basic elements of engagement pyramids and paths such as recruitment, mobilization and distributed leadership that allow your organization to meaningfully engage people, gain more power that eventually leads to change will be introduced.

Session #3: Recruitment and Mobilization - April 19, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

In this session we will focus on the recruitment and mobilization levels of the pyramid and develop lists, strategies and paths associated within these levels of engagement.

Session #4: Distributed Leadership - April 26, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

You will dive into the distributed leadership potential within your organizations, particularly focused on volunteers. We will unpack the volunteers and leadership power base, volunteers’ stewardship and long-term engagement. We will also touch on the readiness for a culture shift and its barriers.

Session #5: Pathways and People Management, Advocacy - May 3, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET

Participants will learn about how to use and track the power within their organization to influence decision-makers. Some of the topics include importance and strategies of tracking your supporters, how to handle and use data, databases, and the digital environment for change, how to integrate digital tools, and how to set milestones, metrics, and dashboards. In this session, participants will be able to tie everything together and see the connection between the EO methodology, people power and how they can advance their organization and their cause through EO.

Session #6: Tying It All Together and Where to Go From Here - May 10, 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET - Voluntary session

This session is for participants who are interested to share their engagement organizing plans with the rest of the class and to get feedback from the instructor and colleagues.

‍OUR PRESENTER
The series will be delivered by Renata Woodward who is a seasoned land trust practitioner who has spent most of her career working to protect the environment. She has worked as an executive director with the Nature Trust of New Brunswick and is currently executive director of the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts. She is a consultant who helps non-governmental organizations with engagement organizing, capacity building, fund-raising, land conservation, and policy development. She is a progressive leader, effective decision-maker, visionary, great communicator, and manager who can display sound judgment and bring the best out of a team of passionate and diverse people. She continues to work on advancing environmental protection in Canada. She's lived, studied, and worked in Czechia, England, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. ‍

Webinar Series - $75

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Growing our Movements: Panel & Fundraiser for the Groundswell Fund

Date & Time: Apr 18, 2024, 07:00 PM in Toronto

Register:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7L5oNBNpSyqv5vLxTOKy7Q#/registration

Register now to join this conversation with three incredible social justice leaders, as we talk through some big questions:

• Why aren’t charity and philanthropy enough to overcome the interconnected crises of our time?

• How do we cultivate strong social movements, making powerful demands, led by the communities most impacted by oppression?

• Why are these movements often shut out from the resources of philanthropy? And what can we do about it?

Whether you’ve been thinking about these questions for years already, or they feel brand new - this webinar is for you! We’re deeply honoured to be in conversation with Desmond Cole, Mostafa Henaway, and Sarah Jama. They bring incredibly rich and complementary perspectives to this discussion, and we really hope you’ll join us to be a part of it.

Of course, this event itself is part of our answer to that third question: we need funding institutions that are truly by and for grassroots social movements, and Groundswell is exactly that!

This event isn’t simply about raising dollars - it is part of a long-standing redistributive justice tradition to shift the ways in which we think about power, privilege and change. By supporting and resourcing those most impacted by systems of oppression, we are committing to building a better future for all.

ACCESSIBILITY

Automated Zoom closed captions will be supported with designated CC monitors to catch and correct any mistakes. ASL interpretation will be available. Please flag any other accessibility needs in the registration form and an organizer will reach out to you directly.

Oversized Danger: Report on the lethal danger of pickups and large SUVs

Oversized Danger: Report on the lethal danger of pickups and large SUVs to pedestrians and cyclists

Hosted by: University of Toronto Mobility Network

Date and time: Thursday, April 18 · 12 - 3am EDT

Location:

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

252 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1V6

Eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/oversized-danger-report-on-the-lethal-danger-of-pickups-and-large-suvs-tickets-876726952917

Thursday, April 18, 2024

12 noon to 3 pm (light lunch served from 11:30 am)

OISE, Rm 2214

252 Bloor St. West

University of Toronto

This event is brought to you by the Coalition to Reduce Auto Size Hazards (C.R.A.S.H.), an initiative launched in August 2022 by an Ontario-wide coalition of 16 road safety and other community groups. The coalition is led by Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC), Bike Law Canada, Bike Windsor Essex, Community Bikeways (TCBC), Friends and Families for Safe Streets (FFSS), and Walk Toronto.

We believe everyone should be and should feel safe as they move about on public roads, whether for work, school, shopping, or recreation. In the context of today’s urgent problems—beginning with the climate crisis—this means ensuring people who travel on foot, bicycles, or mass transit can do so safely.

Based on current research, the report outlines the safety problems posed by the proliferating number of pickups and large SUVs on our roads and canvasses lessons and approaches from other jurisdictions in dealing with these over-sized and underregulated dangers. Our panellists will set out recommendations to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for effective measures to address the dangers posed by pickups and large SUVs to people walking and cycling.

Our recommendations for action are premised on an approach that prioritizes the safety of pedestrians, which includes virtually everyone at some point, and cyclists on public roads.

This panel discussion will be of interest to policy makers, advocates, the media, academics, and all who care about safe streets.

The report launch and symposium are supported by the Centre for Cities (University of Windsor) and the Mobility Network (University of Toronto).

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Join us for a timely webinar on the role of communities and residents in preparing for and responding to climate-related events. As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, and heatwaves, continue to rise, posing significant challenges to local governments and communities across the country.

The 2023 wildfire season was the worst ever recorded, with roughly 18.5 million hectares of Canadian land burned and extensive damage to communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure. The town of Celista, British Columbia, was one of the communities that experienced devastating impacts. Jim Cooperman, a prominent author and conservationist in the Shuswap community, will share firsthand insights and lessons learned from the 2023 fires when it comes to strengthening municipal-community collaboration in emergency response.

Meanwhile, in Ontario, the City of Mississauga teamed up with several partners including University of Waterloo to host an RU Ready Workshop and launch Climate Crisis Connect, a youth-led initiative dedicated to improving emergency preparedness in Mississauga through raising awareness and educating residents about the importance of emergency preparation. Ben Gallagher and Larissa Parekh with the City of Mississauga will share their experience collaborating with community partners for greater climate resilience.

As we look ahead to the upcoming summer, projections indicate that Canada may face another season of heightened wildfire activity, along with other climate-related extreme weather events. Municipalities and communities must prepare effectively and strengthen their collaboration to mitigate risks and ensure swift response and recovery efforts.

In this webinar, we’ll explore: 

• Lessons learned from the experiences of Celista, BC, and Mississauga, ON, when it comes to centering community and activating local resources where possible in emergency preparedness and response
  

• Strategies for improving collaboration between municipalities and communities in the face of extreme weather events 
  

• Best practices for engaging residents in emergency preparedness efforts and fostering a culture of resilience at the community level