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Download the NORDIK AGM Culture Panel Poster below
Download the Social Enterprise Training That Unites Peers (SETUP) below.
Download the Waubetek Enterprise Workshop Series PDFs below.
Food Matters in Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma. See below the poster for the Where’s the Food? Events.
Urban Indigenous Youth for Change, a project led out of NORDIK Institute, purpose is to engage Indigenous youth, ages 13 to 35, to empower them with the skills needed to become social entrepreneurs. By engaging the youth with the social economy we can encourage them to increase their capacity in social enterprise development. In simple terms, we recognize that as young change makers, we can be the ones to better our world and this program is focused on encouraging those capacity building skills needed to take something from a seedling of an idea and put it into action. Everything we do has a purpose and that is to engage and increase the knowledge/skills of our participants though youth-led workshops in a way that is culturally appropriate.
In the past, we have been guided by a youth-led steering committee who meets monthly to discuss the success and planning of events, as well as having elders to guide us and share their knowledge with us. This group’s purpose is to bring lived experience to the space and becomes the brain and heart of UIYFC. In essence, this youth circle becomes a peer network and mentoring opportunity for those youth who become involved—imagine being recruited to facilitate or co-facilitate workshops, bring others into UIYFC and meet/discuss opportunities for youth who want to make change in their community.
What we need to begin are participants who are willing to meet monthly and engage together to brainstorm, learn, teach and advise the rest of us in a way that will push this program into the right direction. This year the meetings will may be held outside of normal business hours to accommodate any youth who are in high school because we want to encourage them to become involved in the planning process as well as participate in the events.
If you would like to be a part of the UIYFC Advisory Circle please contact Samantha Kyle at email.
See below the Save The Date! Social Enterprise Round Table poster.
October 31, 2017 – SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – NORDIK Institute is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at its upcoming annual general meeting slated for Thursday, November 2nd, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Wishart Library of Algoma University, featuring guest speaker, Joan Kuyek.
The business meeting will be followed by a reception in the foyer of the Wishart Library from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., followed by Joan Kuyek’s address, “Fighting for Hope” in the university’s Shingwauk Auditorium from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Kuyek is a community organizer, mining analyst, and adult educator living in Ottawa. She was the founding National Co-ordinator of MiningWatch Canada from 1999-2009, and has taught Community Work at Carleton University and Community Economic and Social Development at Algoma University. She is author of Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach (2011) and a number of other books and publications. Before moving to Ottawa, Kuyek was a community organizer and facilitator for almost 30 years in Sudbury. Kuyek’s talk focuses on examples from her experience of how people resist forces that pillage our lives, lands and waters, how people create alternative ways to provide for their physical needs, and how to build a culture of hope.
NORDIK is a community-based research institute affiliated with Algoma University’s Community Economic and Social Development program. Its goal is to build Northern Ontario’s capacity to conduct research that contributes to social, economic and environmental justice in rural, Indigenous and northern communities and provides evidence for informed policy and decision making. Highlights of the past 10 years of change-making projects and research will be profiled in a retrospective poster display from October 30th to November 3rd in the foyer of the Wishart Library at Algoma University.
“We are excited to mark this milestone in NORDIK’s history with a celebration of community success stories from across the North,” says Sean Meades, Acting Director, NORDIK Institute. “NORDIK has partnered at local, regional, and international levels on over 100 projects, and the brilliant team of researchers, students and change-makers that have been part of NORDIK’s story have provided us with much celebrate over the past ten years.”
“NORDIK Institute is thrilled to have Joan Kuyek, a renowned community organizer, present at our 10-year celebration,” says Katie Elliott, Chair of NORDIK Institute’s Board of Directors. “Her presentation on the socially innovative ways in which people adapt relates directly to NORDIK’s vision of promoting more vibrant, caring and sustainable communities, and is sure to inspire all those in attendance.”
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For more information, please contact:
Sean Meades, Acting Director, NORDIK Institute, 705-949-2301, ext. 4235, or visit NORDIK Institute
See the poster below for more information regarding this event.
NORDIK Institute, Algoma University’s community-based research institute, is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and cordially invites you to attend its Annual General Meeting on November 2nd, at the Wishart Library at Algoma University.
The AGM meeting will be from 4:30 – 5:00 pm and a reception and research poster display will follow from 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Culminating NORDIK’s celebrations, renowned community organizer and educator, Joan Kuyek, will speak in the university’s Shingwauk Auditorium from 7:00 – 8:30 pm.
Although RSVPs are not required, they are appreciated and can be sent to Jordan Wettlaufer.
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NORDIK Institute’s Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) project to host nine weeks of workshops on Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Business basics
Monday, July, 31, 2017, Sault Ste. Marie ON – NORDIK Institute, Algoma University’s community-based research organization with ongoing goals of increasing employment and promoting community resilience is hosting a series of nine workshops geared to Social Enterprises, Social Entrepreneurs and new business start-ups.
The Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Northern Region Partnership workshops will be held at the Sault Community Career Centre every Wednesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. from Wed Aug 2 until September 27th. They will cover a variety of topics including Social Enterprises 101, Business Planning 101, Market Research and Financing and Capital 101. Open to everyone, a dedicated team will support the learning of these topics through interactive sessions geared at entrepreneurs and enterprises who are starting or expanding a business and taking that next step to apply for funding. These sessions will also be broadcasted online.
“Within the last three years, NORDIK and SEE have been instrumental in capacity building, training and support for social enterprises and entrepreneurs, starting from the conceptualization stage, to educating them on skills and components of owning and managing a business, to the process of writing a funding application in the Northern Ontario context,” says Sean Meades, Acting Director, NORDIK Institute. “These nine weeks of workshops will build on our previous efforts and help educate participants in learning about Social Enterprise and how one can begin a business that can help tackle community problems.”
Social Enterprises engage citizens and spark community change through developing innovative ideas and employment opportunities while responding to social, cultural and environmental needs. They differ from other small businesses in that they use the “triple bottom line” (People, Planet, Profit) to assess success, and their governance structure often reflects community or collective control, such as with cooperatives or non-profits.
“One needs to be very prepared to take on any business, especially a Social Enterprise, and these workshops will help interested Social Entrepreneurs understand the various aspects of business as it applies to their venture,” says Erika Luoma, SEE’s Project Lead and Communications Coordinator. “Our project is dedicated to developing supports and resources to allow social enterprise to succeed and these workshops will help us do just that.”
The Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Northern Region Partnership, part of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Growth’s ONE project. For more information on the workshops, please visit the SEE website, www.seethechange.ca
NORDIK Institute is Algoma University’s community based research organization whose goal is to build Northern Ontario’s capacity to conduct research that contributes to social, economic and environmental justice in rural, Indigenous and northern communities and provides evidence for informed policy and decision making.
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For more information, please contact: Erika Luoma, NORDIK Institute, Project Lead and Communications Coordinator, Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Northern Region Partnership, 705-949-2301, ext. 4393, www.seethechange.ca
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