January 2021

Find the full newsletter here: Updates for Albertan Changemakers (January 2021)

Innovator's Spotlight: AB Seed

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Our partners at AB Seed have officially launched their new website! AB Seed, Alberta Social Economy Ecosystem Development, is a collaborative of social enterprise and social finance leaders seeking to develop a strong social economy ecosystem in Alberta.

Join the ecosystem today to connect with others in the ecosystem, access resources to help guide your work, find more information about AB Seed, and stories of work and enterprises from across Alberta.

Opportunities

  1. Local Investing YYC Investor Information Session (Feb. 2)
    Interested in learning more about Local Investing YYC? Join them for their information session February 2 where you can meet the team and learn more about Local Investing YYC.

  2. Merger: A Strategy for Resilience in the COVID-19 Era (Feb. 4)
    Hosted by the Sustainability Network, the COVID-19 era and the emerging recession bring stark challenges to environmental NGOs. Merger is a strategy that organizations can consider to survive this storm and thrive in the years ahead. This webinar presents an overview of nonprofit mergers.

  3. Webinar: Seeking Funding Fairness for Black Communities (Feb 3)
    This webinar will explore Unfunded report implications for grantmakers and community leaders, and will showcase how tangible community-driven solutions such as the Foundation for Black Community can address the funding gap for Black communities.

  4. Financing Social Change (Feb. 9)
    Hosted by the Institute of Community Prosperity and Momentum. This workshop will explore what financing tools exist to support social change efforts from self-sustaining revenue for nonprofits to investment cooperatives to the growing impact investing sector. Learn from fearless pioneers that have succeeded in creating sustainable large-scale community change through different financing solutions.

  5. Trico Changemakers Studio: Changemaker Conversations (Feb 11)
    From Insight to Action, The Changemaker Conversations Project is a space for generative dialogue, meaningful connection and inspiration. We believe that everyone is a changemaker and that by sharing our stories, experience and knowledge, we activate and inspire the work of social change. Join us for our conversation Feb. 11 about the intersect of climate action and social justice.

We acknowledge that in Alberta we are on traditional territories of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.