Our Sector, Our Vision: The Provincial Conference for Ontario's Nonprofits and Charities
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 4:00 PM (ET)
Toronto, Ontario
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Our Sector, Our Vision 2010, The
Provincial Conference for Ontario’s Nonprofits and Charities, is selling out
fast! Join the Ontario Nonprofit Network and your sector colleagues on April
12th and 13 for our third annual provincial conference: Our Sector, Our Vision
2010! This cross-sectoral, action-oriented event will bring together
hundreds leaders from the nonprofit, public, and private sectors to shape the
course of Ontario’s nonprofits and charities. We've invited many of our
own to share their experiences and knowledge on a variety of topics, including:
How to Build Successful Campaigns, Making Nonprofit Work a Career of
Choice, Vocational Renewal, Improving Government Relations, Youth Engagement
and Leadership, and much more!
This year we focus on moving ideas into action. Since our last conference
in May 2009, ONN has travelled across the province to meet with you and to
learn about the issues that you, your organizations, and your communities are
facing. Together, we identified the top four priorities for Ontario’s
nonprofits and charities and we are now ready to move into the next phase—ACTION!
HIGHLIGHTS of this year's conference include:
Day 1 — April 12, 2010
KEYNOTE: Judith Maxwell
With extensive experience in both public and private sector think tanks, Judith Maxwell has established a national reputation as a leading thinker on Canada’s social and economic policy choices. In this discussion, Judith Maxwell shares strategies on how the sector may adapt to emerging financial restraints and diminishing social priorities so as to commit more of our energy towards strengthening our communities and our organizations.
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS:
1. Building Effective Campaigns
Campaigning can be a powerful tool, if carried out strategically. To help you strengthen your campaigning process, we’ve brought in leaders from the environment, arts, and sports sectors: Sarah Winterton (Environmental Defence), Jini Stolk (Creative Trust), and Ian Bird (Sports Matters). Join them as they share their lessons learned about how to build effective, long-term campaigns, how to successfully mobilize communities, and how these lessons can be transferred to your own sector!
2. Competing for People: Why the Nonprofit Sector is a Good Place to Work
When it comes to competing for human resources, the nonprofit sector is at a severe disadvantage. While nonprofit work can be rewarding, to keep people in the sector, organizations must provide the basic employment benefits that people are looking for and that private and public sectors already provide. If the nonprofit sector is to compete for talented human resources, then it must start offering benefits such as comfortable working conditions, pension plans, and financial benefits. Joining us we have, Lynne Toupin, Executive Director of the HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector, who will speak about efforts in Quebec to establish a pension plan for small and medium nonprofits and what we might consider for Ontario. Other speakers include, Rob Howarth, Toronto Neighbourhood Centres; Eric Meerkamper, DECODE; and Dick Stewart, HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector Board Member.
3. Vocational Renewal
When it comes to leading nonprofits, we must make the most of what we have and invest our organization’s financial, human, and reputational assets wisely. When analyzing the balance sheet, are we underestimating the value of the leadership resources that we bring to our roles and to our organizations? How do we protect and grow these assets? Can they be renewed when depleted? Join Pat Thompson (Metcalf Foundation Innovation Fellow) as she engages us in a conversation about the motivations and passions that keep us working in the nonprofit sector.
4. Supporting Youth Leadership and Engagement in the Nonprofit Sector
In the recent years, there has been a surge of youth-led initiatives in the nonprofit community. What issues are these youth responding to? How does our sector see youth involvement? How do youth envision the nonprofit sector in the future? In this session, we bring in young leaders and youth supporters to speak about the issues the youth face in our sector, the influences that have contributed to current perceptions of youth engagement in nonprofit work, and what youth envision for themselves and our sector as a whole. Joining us we have Elizabeth Fraser, YouThink project; Ana Skinner, Laidlaw; Neemarie Alam, Frontline Partners with Youth Network; Chalo Barrueta, Youth for Change; and Josh Bean, Brantford Arts Block.
FIREWORKS PANEL: Perspectives on the Nonprofit Sector's Relations to the Government
Provocateur extraordinaire, Jamie Grant, GM of Centre in the Square, probes ONN’s intrepid panel of quick minds as they respond to rapid-fire questions that get to the heart of the matter: What defines the nonprofit sector's relationship to government? What is its public value? What could it be? Expect sparks to fly as Jamie's penetrating questions ignite rapier wit and insights. Not for the faint of heart or mind, and definitely entertaining.
Fireworks
panel includes:
Jamie Grant, Centre in the Square; Katherine Carlton, ED Orchestras Canada;
Judith Pfeifer, Hill and Knowlton; Margaret Emin, Sport4Ontario; Michael
Shapcott, Wellesley Institute; Other speakers TBA
RECEPTION
Enjoy an opportunity to discuss and engage with your colleagues from across the province.
Day 2 — April 13, 2010
IDEAS INTO ACTION: MOBILIZING OUR SECTOR
ONN is your network of networks. Together, we can have our voices heard, our issues addressed, and our work known and understood. Goodness knows we have our challenges—government deficits, changing patterns of charitable giving, new restrictions on earning revenues, antiquated regulation, and a public that knows too little about the work we do.
On the other hand, we have tremendous strength, commitment, and energy, and we are just beginning to understand the impact we can have working together. Our new confidence in our ability to work together to effect important change is demonstrated by the repeal of the Charitable Gifts Act, our position on accounting standards to meet our needs, HST accommodation for our sector, and changes to the fundraising guidelines. We are now ready to be more proactive to drive an agenda for ourselves, and not a moment too soon, but we can’t do it alone. We need your help. Just think of the impact if everybody chipped in and spoke up.
In the last year, ONN organized over a dozen consultations across Ontario, bringing our sector together to identify our most pressing and shared priorities. As individuals, organizations, and communities we have a lot of work ahead of us and we need you, the leaders of our sector, here on day two of our conference to help shape the future of the nonprofit sector in Ontario. Help us chart the course of what ONN and our sector will be working on together in 2010 and over the next several years. We are ready to move into action, for our work, for our communities, and for our sector.
THE PATH AHEAD: What We Know and Don't Know
Tonya Surman, ONN Steering Committee Co-Chair and ED of the Centre for Social Innovation, reviews the key provincial priority areas. Did we get them right? Are we missing anything? This is your opportunity to refine the sector priorities that ONN will use in our discussions with government.
COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS: Figuring It Out Together
We've identified the what and the why of our sector's key priorities and now is the time to determine the how. What are the best strategies for addressing our priorities? Who needs to be involved in this work? Who are we missing at the table?
SECTOR PRIORITIES:
1. Raising Our Profile
Every person has been
touched by the work of a nonprofit. We know this, but many others do
not. As long as the general public and our stakeholders remain unaware of
the sector's value, our potential remains limited. Indeed, we have often
let others describe and define us and not always in the ways we would
like. It is time to turn this around. What do we wish to say about
ourselves? How do we get our message out and engage the public?
Where do we begin? Who should be doing what, when?
2. Renewing Our People Power
Every person has been
touched by the work of a nonprofit. We know this, but many others do
not. As long as the general public and our stakeholders remain unaware of
the sector's value, our potential remains limited. Indeed, we have often
let others describe and define us and not always in the ways we would
like. It is time to turn this around. What do we wish to say about
ourselves? How do we get our message out and engage the public?
Where do we begin? Who should be doing what, when?
3. Maximizing Our Impact
What we have learned so far
through ONN’s constellations is that our sector is rich in its differences and
its resources. We can learn from each other, and when we come together
and pool our energies and perspectives we can do amazing things. Finding
innovative and effective ways to network and collaborate is necessary if we are
to tackle the challenges facing our communities and our sector. We have
sector infrastructure that is no longer working for us, funding practices that
slow us down. New innovations have nowhere to go. Where do we start
on making Ontario a hospitable place to be a charity or nonprofit? Who
does what?
4. Engaging Our Provincial Government Our sub-sector associations and other sector collaborative groups relate to over 15 different provincial government ministries, but as a sector there is no formal link, no way to improve the infrastructure that shapes, governs, and structures all of our work. Effective collaboration with the government is key to advancing important public policy objectives and public financing. How do we partner up with our government and work together for public benefit? How do we leverage our existing government relationships to obtain the kind of sector-wide focus we require to renew and improve our capacity to do our work? What are our priorities for infrastructure renewal? Where and how do we begin?
Together we can make a difference!
**Registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks for both days and a reception at the end of the first day.
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News & Updates
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Conference Update: ONN is excited to announce that the Honorable Minister Eric Hoskins, Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Government of Ontario, will be speaking at ONN's Our Sector, Our Vision 2010: The Provincial Conference for Ontario's Nonprofits and Charities.
In the March Throne Speech, the Government of Ontario recognized Ontario’s 46,000 nonprofit organizations as the unsung heroes of Ontario’s economy. Over 15 % of Ontario’s paid workforce is in the nonprofit sector and nearly five million Ontarians volunteer their services in their communities, some even helping the government reach its goal of reducing poverty rates by 25 per cent in five years. Indeed, our sector plays a vital role in contributing to the social and economic health of our province. The health of our sector is integral to the province’s efforts to help people hurt by this recession and to help lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity.
The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration and ONN have been working together for the past few years to encourage growth and prosperity within our sector and our communities. ONN regards this partnership as an essential foundation upon which we may begin to address the many issues that affect the health and effectiveness of our sector and to ensure a good quality of life for all Ontarians.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Limited Number of Conference Subsidies Now Available for Our Sector, Our Vision 2010!
With the generous financial support of Ontario Trillium Foundation, ONN is now able to offer rural and low-income participants a limited conference subsidy. For more information, contact: manjula@ontariononprofitnetwork.ca
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Robin Cardozo, CEO of Ontario Trillium Foundation, to speak at ONN's Our Sector, Our Vision 2010!
ONN is excited to announce that Robin Cardozo, CEO of Ontario Trillium Foundation, will be speaking at our upcoming conference, Our Sector, Our Vision 2010. OTF has provided generous financial support to ONN, enabling us to grow and develop so that we can help our sector colleagues address the many issues facing our sector. Most recently, OTF has generously agreed to sponsor our upcoming conference, enabling ONN to further support the participation of rural and low-income organizations at our event. We now have a limited number of conference subsidies available for participants who wish to attend but cannot due to funding limitations. For more information, contact: manjula@ontariononprofitnetwork.ca
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Do you need a place to stay?
ONN has arranged an excellent rate of $89 per night with the Super 8 Hotel(www.super8downtowntoronto.com). We have 30 rooms on hold until March 26. Call 647-426-8118 to book and say that you are with the Ontario Nonprofit Network.
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