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Working in urban centers today involves working with members from varied ethnic and racial groups. The continued impact of globalization and immigration ensures that diverse communities will experience increasing levels of contract. This workshop will outline the overall context of CBR in ethnoracial communities

Participants Will Learn:

• Do issues of race, ethnicity and difference impact on the process and outcome of research projects?
• In what way do community building and reciprocal research strategies affect the nature of the research and in turn affect policy guidelines?
• This workshop will examine issues such as these and the overall experience of conducting research with ethnoracial communities.

Who Should Attend:

The workshop will be beneficial to members of organizations working within diverse settings and communities.

Volunteers donate millions of dollars worth of labour to the non-profit sector every year. Many organizations although fully staffed, retain volunteers to help govern and implement programs, as well as perform many roles to help achieve the organization's mission. This workshop is interactive and fun and you will learn about the effective management of volunteers and come away with new ideas and strategies to recruit and retain volunteers.

Participants Will Learn:

As leaders in the non-profit sector we are always scanning our funding environment to find new sources of funding. Do you sometimes wonder why funding opportunities seem to follow the flavour of the month?
Do you wonder why application forms are so detailed and onerous? Do you wonder why funding rules are evolving the way they have?

If so, come to this session with Marilyn Struthers a Program Manager with Ontario Trillium Foundation and think together with other Executive Directors about the complex and systemic issues surrounding funding that face the of the non-profit sector.

Lunch and Learn sessions are restricted to the Executive Directors of Toronto non-profits and are designed to provide an opportunity for networking and to listen to a speaker on a current topic of interest.

About The Speaker:

This workshop is an advanced 'how to' designed for those interested in doing qualitative research from a community-based perspective (focus groups, interviews, participant observation, etc.) Sometimes people think that doing qualitative research is easier than quantitative research, because there are no statistics involved. However, managing qualitative data can be an equally difficult and overwhelming task. We will explore how to design open-ended questions, manage qualitative data, and do collaborative data analysis.

Participants Will Learn:

Who Should Attend:

Non-profits often hate the term "marketing". However, marketing skills play a critical role in our day-to-day work. We market ourselves in order to reach and attract clients. If we charge for a service we need to determine an acceptable price. To obtain grants we promote ourselves to government officials and funders. If we fundraise we have to get the public committed to our organization. When we find our service niche we must brand ourselves. And lastly, we make social change by selling the community and social systems on the benefits of change. Come to this interactive workshop and develop a marketing strategy customized for your organization or social change process.

Participants will learn:

We are increasingly being asked to develop, describe and document and the impacts of our programs and services. This brief interactive seminar will give us a chance to workshop existing tools. It will also provide some brief tips on administration, analysis and dissemination of findings. Feel free to bring a tool that you have already been using and see how it can be improved!

Participants Will Learn:

• What makes a good client satisfaction tool
• How to critique and improve existing tools
• Get feedback on tools they have been using
• Tips for administration, analysis and dissemination

Who Should Attend:

• Front line practitioners
• Those seeking to develop or improve client satisfaction tools
• Community members
• Students