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How a game designer creates games to nurture and promote eco-activism.
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How a game designer creates games to nurture and promote eco-activism.
Studies have been done about the hardships that Black female entrepreneurs face. The proposed solutions are literally steeped in capitalism & white supremacy.–Althea Branton
In this personal essay, creative entrepreneur Timaj Garad shares her experience attending StrikeUp 2022– A ‘not business as usual’ conference for women entrepreneurs.
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When: May 4, 2022, 9:30-10:30pm ET
Where: Online
Cost: Free
Virtual Event: Sign-up here to participate for free in the online broadcast that will occur simultaneously, or to watch a recording that will be available through midnight, Sunday, June 4th
The Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation, in partnership with Peninsula Open Space Trust, is honored to host Indigenous Leader, Author and Scientist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer for a talk centered around the themes of her best-selling book “Braiding Sweetgrass.” A Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, Dr. Kimmerer writes about the intersections of traditional ecological knowledge and science, and how native traditions and scientific disciplines provide different languages through which we can interpret the world. Integrating the two can provide us with a roadmap for how people can come into relationship and care for the land where they live, honoring the past and planning for a sustainable future.
The event will be opened and closed by Charlene Nijmeh, Chairwoman of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Charlene will share about a new effort by the Muwekma to form the Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit whose goals include connecting with and caring for their ancestral lands in the South Bay. A blessing and land acknowledgement will also be delivered by tribal members.
When: May 15, 2022, 10:00pm
Where: Online
Cost: Free
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When: May 19, 2022, 7:00-9:00pm ET
Where: Online
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Registration for our first-ever gender equality summit, Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit, is now open! Taking place from June 7 to 8, 2022, the summit will be held at the beautiful Richcraft Hall, overlooking the Rideau River, at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Through the theme “Collaboration, Collective Action and Community”, the summit will provide an in-person forum for the gender equality movement to come together, build connections, strengthen capacity, share expertise, and establish the collective actions that will pave the path forward for advancing gender equality in Canada.
More information, including programming details and keynote announcements will be communicated through the Equal Futures: A Gender Equality Summit mailing list and Equal Futures Network social media channels.
Applications for the Equal Futures 2022: Youth Bursary Program are now open! We are encouraging applications from youth between the ages of 18 and 30* who are:
The bursaries will provide financial assistance to youth including:
Carleton University (9376 University Dr, Ottawa, ON)
Conference will take place in Richcraft Hall.
Campus Map
Women and gender-expansive people have rich histories of resilience in the face of oppression and exclusion.
We’ve seen these communities — particularly women of colour, queer, trans, and non-binary people, disabled women, and Indigenous women — have to pull from wells of resilience throughout the pandemic.
What if they didn’t have to? How might policymakers and social purpose organizations build economic systems that work for women and gender-expansive people?
The Future of Good Women’s Economic Resilience summit, sponsored by Scotiabank, will convene changemakers and speakers working to advance gender equity and economic empowerment from across Canada and around the world. We’ll dive into feminist philanthropy, feminist movements, feminist public policy, entrepreneurship, care, leadership, and a whole lot more.
Hosted by Future of Good’s editorial fellow on women’s economic resilience, Sherlyn Assam, we’ll ask tough questions about whether the social purpose sector offers decent work for its 80 per cent women workforce. We’ll ask, too, about whether social policy development in this country is feminist and inclusive; how teams and organizations are driving gender equity; how funders might reckon with the trauma many women experience with money; and more.
We’ll also spotlight solutions led by women and non-binary people — from feminist activists on the frontlines of movements globally to women’s traditions of community care to the entrepreneurs, investors, and philanthropists building a better future for their communities every day.
When: June 8-9, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM each morning
Where: ONLINE
Are you passionate about a social justice cause and activism but don’t know how to interact with politicians? Then this workshop is for you! As activists, part of our job is lobbying politicians to support our cause, but to some this may be a daunting process. Canada has three levels of government, and you may be unsure which level to reach out to.
The workshop will present a brief overview of each government’s jurisdiction to give you a better understanding of who to contact depending on your cause. You will also receive tips on how to interact with politicians at the municipal, provincial, and federal government in the Canadian context.
Speakers:
Paige Mason is a fourth-year political science major at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. She has been a board member of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada since September 2020. She became interested in feminism and social justice advocacy as a teenager, which led her to pursue a degree in politics and become an activist for reproductive justice.
Paige has been involved with numerous feminist and human rights groups, such as representing her community in 2021 Daughters of the Vote, and volunteering with the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties, Justice4BlackLivesWinnipeg, the Manitoba NDP, and recently Access MB, a grassroots organization advocating for no-cost contraception. She has experience interacting with elected officials at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels and has worked as an executive assistant to a Winnipeg city councillor. Through her years as a political science student, Paige has gained extensive knowledge of the Canadian political system and has taken a specific interest in the intertwining of politics and abortion rights.
Date: June 18th (Saturday)
Location: Online
Cost: $10
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How a game designer creates games to nurture and promote eco-activism.
Studies have been done about the hardships that Black female entrepreneurs face. The proposed solutions are literally steeped in capitalism & white supremacy.–Althea Branton
In this personal essay, creative entrepreneur Timaj Garad shares her experience attending StrikeUp 2022– A ‘not business as usual’ conference for women entrepreneurs.
Meet three indie media mavericks who are challenging the patriarchal definition of journalism in Canada.
If the small business space is mostly conservative, where does a left-leaning woman entrepreneur go for solidarity and support?
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Join us for a two-day programme with presentations, keynotes and discussions seeking to speculate on the possibility of life after growth.
The programme features contributions by Rebecca Beinart, Kathrin Böhm, Angela YT Chan, Cooking Sections, TJ Demos, Fernando García-Dory, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, Giorgos Kallis, Landworker’s Alliance, Thandi Loewenson, Bahar Noorizadeh, Tonny Nowshin, Asad Raza, Frances Whitehead, Wild.ng, Pınar Yoldas, among others.
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Cost: Free
I’ve made some exciting improvements to how we can teach feminist business modeling using the Feminist Business Model Canvas. I’d love to share them with our community in a new, free Workshop: Applying the Feminist Business Model Canvas.
Background:
Over the past year, I’ve led two series of workshops where I taught entrepreneurship teachers, business coaches, and business mentors how to use the FBMC with entrepreneurs in their small business accelerator programs. This experience pushed me to create some new materials to introduce the FBMC using real business examples, as well as to design a 90 minute class where all the participants’ effort is focused on applying the FBMC to their own business idea.
I’d love to share these new materials and a redesigned workshop experience with anyone who’s encountered the FBMC before, whether you are a mentor/coach or a business creator.
What We’ll Do:
We’ll spend 90 minutes together working through the first two steps of the Feminist Business Modeling Process. First, you’ll outline a basic, bare-bones business model, just to see where you stand. Then, you’ll use the 12 elements of the FBMC and one set of FBMC questions to uncover the foundation of your Feminist Business Model.
You’ll leave with a complete, top-level picture of how all the pieces of your feminist, values-driven business idea fit together. This picture will help you identify what ’s already aligned, what needs to be developed, and where there might be great opportunities for innovation and impact.
This workshop will focus on applying rather than learning about the Canvas. We’ll skip over questions like “What is a revenue model?” and “What’s “feminist” about the FBMC?” We’ll focus instead on “What choices have I already made that shape the outline of my business model?” and “What beliefs and assumptions can I surface to establish a firmer, more comprehensive foundation for my business?”
Format:
We’ll kick off, as we always do, with a brief conversation about who we are, where we are coming from, and what we aim to learn. I’ll offer a very short (5 minute) overview of the FBMC and feminist business modeling, and then we’ll jump onto co-working on our models. We’ll do two rounds of work on our business models, and then re-group to discuss what we discovered.
This workshop is for:
The workshop will focus on “business” broadly defined, including for-profit businesses that sell things, non-profit businesses that earn some of their own revenue, and enterprises that provide services, products, or both. We will not address anything related to fundraising, or funders’ /donors’ values and motivations.
Cost: “Free” with a “Mutual Value Exchange”.
Anyone who’s taken a workshop about the FBMC is invited to join this workshop at no out-of-pocket cost. No dollars will be exchanged. Instead, by participating, you commit to a “mutual value exchange” — meaning you’ll share with me your feedback about how the workshop and tool worked for you. Specifically, you’re committing to
With this mutual value exchange, you’ll be contributing to our community’s knowledge pool while you develop your own business idea.
And:
All participants will receive a revised set of FMBC materials to update whatever they already have.
The presentation and discussion parts of this workshop will be recorded on Zoom. You’ll have the chance to redact your contributions, if you feel the need for your participation to remain anonymous.
Date: Thursday, April 14th
Time: 6:30PM-8:00PM PDT
Location: Online OR at SFU Vancouver Campus – Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Room 1400, Vancouver BC, V6B 5K3
Cost: Free
About Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit Collaboration, Collective Action and Community Are you interested in advancing gender equality in your community? Are you looking to connect with gender equality champions, innovators and influencers?
Equal Futures 2022 is a unique opportunity to re-energize Canada’s gender equality movement by expanding the capacity of champions working to advance gender equality in communities across the country.
The Summit will be an inspiring platform to strengthen our collective actions in creating real, lasting change to advance gender equality and ensure equal futures for all from coast-to-coast-to-coast!
Summit objectives:
1. Bring the members of the gender equality movement in Canada together to deepen partnerships and build community connections;
2. Create authentic spaces for attendees that allows them to share knowledge, strengthen capacity and collaborate. 3. Provide a platform for the gender equality community to come together and push for collective action in the key areas that impact them.
Registration for our first-ever gender equality summit, Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit, is now open! Taking place from June 7 to 8, 2022, the summit will be held at the beautiful Richcraft Hall, overlooking the Rideau River, at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Date: June 7, 8 2022
Location: Ottawa (In Real Life)
Where: Carleton University (9376 University Dr, Ottawa, ON)
Conference will take place in Richcraft Hall.
Campus Map
For more information and to register, visit:
Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit
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