Making Your Work as a Board Member Easier
   

How to Connect with Immigrant and Refugee Communities

   
Celebrating Diversity series
   
Fund Raising Success Video Conference
   

Now accepting applications! Executive Leadership in the Non-profit Sector program

   
CharityVillage Campus
e-learning courses
   
 

Upcoming Workshops and Events
(for On the Road events, please see the OTR schedule)


Making Your Work as a Board Member Easier (series)

Various dates between
September 7 - September 30, 2010
at various iCCAN locations
(for details, please download the schedule)

The Community Learning Network along with their partners iCCAN, Board Development Program and the Community Development branch (both part of Culture and Community Spirit) will be offering one and a half hour evening sessions in September on "Making Your Work as a Board Member Easier." This four-part series runs once per week on EITHER Tuesdays or Thursdays for four consecutive weeks and will focus on the following topics:

  • Being an Effective Board Member

  • Meetings That Work

  • Strategic Planning

  • Policies, Procedures and Bylaws – What are they?

For session descriptions, times, locations and registration information, please download the schedule. For further information, please contact Barb Hudkins at 780-485-4948 or coordinator@iccan.ca.

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SectorCast Webinar Series

6 Wednesdays, September 15, 2010 -
Wednesday December 8, 2010
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

ECVO is pleased to offer the opportunity to view the following topical issues via webinars:

  • The nonprofit starvation cycle

  • Best practices in corporate and foundation fundraising

  • Government relations

  • What's the status of your nonprofit's HR health?

  • Utilizing skilled volunteers: are you ready?

These FREE web/audio conferences are designed to give participants an opportunity to share and discuss of-the-moment issues affecting the nonprofit and charitable sector. For more information on sessions and dates, and to register online, visit ecvosectorcastseries.eventbrite.com.

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Welcoming Newcomers to Canada in the Workplace Workshop

6 Fridays (September 24, October 1, October 8,
October 15, October 22 and October 29)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Support Network (#400, 10025-106 Street, Edmonton)

Nonprofit/voluntary sector executive directors, board members, volunteer managers and nonprofit/voluntary staff members will benefit from attending this 6-session workshop series that explores how to create an inclusive, equitable and respectful work environment in which the skills and knowledge of all volunteers are recognized and valued.

Participants will have an understanding of the different categories under which immigrants/refugees enter Canada, and ways in which newcomers can be welcomed and provided with ongoing support in the workplace. Participants will evaluate their current workplace/volunteer policies and practices to determine how effectively they currently support newcomers and discuss how their policies and practices can be modified to be more inclusive.

Cost is $300/person which includes all six sessions, materials and refreshments. For more information and to register online visit 2010newcomersworkshop.eventbrite.com.

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How to Connect with Immigrant and Refugee Communities: the Multicultural Coalition Experience

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
9:00 am -  4:00 pm
First Christian Reformed Church
10956 - 96 Street, Edmonton (free parking on the street)

This workshop will include:

  • Cultural Competency Workshop in context of the realities of Edmonton’s own ethnocultural communities
  • Understand who the emerging immigrant and refugee cultural communities are in Edmonton and how to connect with them
  • Coordinated opportunity to meet and build relationships with immigrant and refugee community leaders in attendance
  • Research results from the Coalition’s “Community Research on the Experience of Ethnocultural Communities in Supporting Newcomers” (see the report here)

Cost for the workshop (a fundraiser for community projects) is $120 per person. Please RSVP by August 6, 2010 to Humza at 780-423-1973 or makhdoom.coalition@gmail.com.

Download the invitation.

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Celebrating Diversity: New Opportunities for the Future series

First session of the series:
The Case for Building an Inclusive Workplace: What's in it for you?

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Santa Maria Goretti Community Centre
11050 - 90 Street, Edmonton

How can you make your organization more welcoming and inclusive? How can this improve your programs and services? Learn from a panel of HR experts from the nonprofit and private sectors as they discuss how your organization can benefit from a more diverse workforce and welcoming workplace. Discover employee recruitment and retention practices that will put your organization ‘ahead of the curve' and help you attract terrific staff from a broader labour pool.

For more details, contact Mandie Abrams, Workforce Strategy Program Manager at workforcestrategy@ecvo.ca.

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Fund Raising Success: Where to Start and How to Build it
(Video Conference)

Register for Fund Raising Success: Where to start & How to build it? (A series of four video-conference sessions) on Eventbrite

Speaker: Tim Haak

August 6, 13, 20 and 27 (Fridays), 2010

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, each day
Jasper, AB and Red Deer, AB

 

This series of four sessions is offered via video conference in Jasper and Red Deer, Alberta.
 

This primer will help you understand how to ensure that your organization is ready to raise funds, select the right prospects (those you hope will give) and the right method(s) for raising those funds. There will be a strong focus on the basics--the steps to building a fund development program that will allow your organization to successfully address its mission.
 

Most of all, you will come to appreciate that fundraising is not just about raising money. It is about inviting others to join you in support of making your community better by adding their time, talent and money to the effort and making a difference in the lives of others. 

 

The registration fee for all four sessions is $60 per person. Online registration is available at eventbrite.com. Download the workshop poster here.

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Executive Leadership in the Non-profit Sector
Grant MacEwan University

Now accepting applications for September 2010
 

The Executive Leadership in the Non-profit Sector program was developed in response to the need for leadership development for current and future executive-director-level employees of non-profit organizations. It has been designed for those who are already working in the non-profit arena, or who are looking to move into the sector. The program will provide the learner with skills unique to the non-profit sector, teaching leadership competencies as defined by the National Learning Initiative for the Voluntary Sector.

Delivered in a hybrid model, with most of the coursework completed through distance, on-line delivery, the program will take twenty months to complete. Assignments and projects will be tailored for completion within your current work environment or with the assistance of a non-profit organization.

For more program details visit Executive Leadership in the Non-profit Sector or email  executiveleadership@macewan.ca. For further information on registration or to arrange an in-person information session, please contact Kirsten Milner, Program Advisor, at 780-497-5268.

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CharityVillage Campus
e-learning courses (ongoing)

CharityVillage Campus offers 10 web-based, self-paced courses, including: Case for Support, Grantseeking, Getting Started in Planned Giving, Effective Policies and Procedures, How Boards Work, Proposal Writing, Event Planning, How Fundraising Works, Volunteer Management, and Strategic Planning. The courses are fun, informative and best of all can be done from the comfort of your own home or office.

Each course also offers downloadable resources that you can print out for future reference. Courses are $127.00 each for 3 months of unlimited access. Volume discounts are also available (click here to read about special offers).

For the catalogue of CharityVillage Campus courses, visit: http://www.charityvillagecampus.com.

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This page was last updated on Thursday, July 22, 2010