Events

Free Webinar about the Common Approach to Impact Measurement

Bryn Sadownik — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:44:36 +0000

The Common Appoach to Impact Measurment, an initiative led by Carleton University's Centre for Community Innovation is convening a community of non profits, social purpose organizations (SPOs), grant makers, investors and academics to build a better way to measure social impact. The initiative is profiled in this blog posting last summer.

Potential and Limits of Impact Measurement - Upcoming Forum in Montreal (April 9)

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:04:38 +0000

TIESS (L'organisme Territoires innovants en économie sociale et solidaire) is organizing a one-day forum to discuss impact measurement practices, as well as its challenges and opportunities. Several international initiatives and viewpoints will be presented in order to bring out points of convergence around which we can mobilize. The event also includes and unveiling of the Quebec Declaration on Evaluation and Social Impact Measurement.

Events on my radar

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:50:19 +0000

There are some pretty interesting events coming up that relate to evaluation, measuring social impact and data visualizations. I would love to attend them all!

November Conference to Focus on Evaluation in Non-Profit Initiatives

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:35:18 +0000

Upcoming social enterprise events in BC

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:18:47 +0000

This spring is full of social enterprise events, many of which touch upon measuring, understanding and communicating impact. Thanks to enp BC for these event listing!

SFU Employment Dialogue Series: Social Enterprise

Tonight: April 14, 2015 (Surrey)
http://www.sfu.ca/surrey/employmentdialogues/

Social Impact Breakfast Session
April 28, 2015 (Prince George) Contact enpBC for more details

Learn more about DV at Dashboard workshop in Victoria, B.C. Feb 12

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:18:03 +0000

NET2VIC Workshop: Demonstrating Value: Build a Management & Reporting Dashboard for your organization
Thursday, February 12, 2015
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

In this workshop Steve Williams will show you how to demonstrate value by building a management and reporting dashboard for your organization. In this interactive session, you'll develop the outline of a management dashboard that combines financial, social and environmental indicators you can use to lead your team, pitch funders and investors and track your progress.

Location: Fort Tectoria

Demonstrating Value for Local Food Organizations and Funders

Bryn Sadownik — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:26:46 +0000

Foodies take note! If you enjoyed reading about the Farmers Market Impact Toolkit and what we learned from it, here is an opportunity to explore the potential for your own food-related impact measurement project. On March 19 Junxion Strategy is presenting a Demonstrating Value workshop for funders and investors in local food and the organizations they love.

Stepping out and Connecting in Calgary for SEWF 2013

Bryn Sadownik — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:05:53 +0000

With its singular history of rugged collective-individualism, Calgary played host to the Social Enterprise World Forum as over a thousand people descended to share, connect and advance social enterprise world-wide during the first week of October.

The Art of Storytelling: Our Favourite Discussion from SOCAP12

Sarah Cruickshank — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:34:43 +0000

Last week from October 1 – 4 San Francisco was host to Social Capital Markets 2012 (SOCAP12), an annual conference that connects global innovators, investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs in a discussion about directing the power and efficiency of market systems towards creating social good.

Expert advice from the Demonstrating Value event

Sarah Cruickshank — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:09:08 +0000

Yesterday evening Vancity Community Foundation and SAP co-hosted a special event to share advice about creating performance snapshots. With over 50 guests in attendance at the SAP Executive Briefing Centre, the event was a huge success. For those of you who missed out, here’s some highlights and useful recommendations that were shared yesterday evening.

Social Enterprise Socials are back!

Sarah Cruickshank — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Our friends at enterprising non-profits have a round of social enterprise socials coming up on topics suggested by social enterprise practitioners. Each social will be interactive and you will have the opportunity to learn from your peers, and to share your thoughts and experiences – register now!

What is Program Sustainability and How Can You Achieve It?

Sarah Cruickshank — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Webinar presented by Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation (Facilitator: Kylie Hutchinson)
January 31st and February 7th, 2012 (10:00 - 11:30 AM)

Business Improvement with JDQ Systems

Sarah Cruickshank — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Social Enterprise Social hosted by Enterprising Non-Profits

Thursday, December 1st, 5:30-7:30pm

Learning How to Measure Impact Together

Sarah Cruickshank — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:00:00 +0000

Shared Measurement is a growing area of impact measurement that realistically considers that multiple organizations contribute to the same desired community impact, and tracking outcomes collectively is smarter and more economic than having every organization prove its impact as if they existed in isolation. FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm based in the US, is holding a webinar in early November about shared measurement systems.