Program

This roundtable is intended to explore pedagogical considerations unique to teaching courses within the domain on the social economy. Within the broad category of social innovation multiple definitions, often tied to specific stakeholder outcomes, can present challenges to clearly articulating concepts and practices to students. Introducing critical thinking skills and encouraging creativity with a set course structure also poses unique challenges to instructors. Through narrative inquiry, this study seeks to understand the experiences of ten Toronto and high school students with disengagement from school, the impact of Covid-19 on learning and schooling, and whether elements from an approach taken by a community-based tutorial program could be drawn on and applied more widely by other organizations and the formal school system. The findings can assist practitioners in formal and informal settings in their efforts to assist youth from marginalized communities, to maintain their motivation for learning to achieve their aspirations and contribute to society. This paper will explore how a variety of individuals and organisations responded spontaneously to the critical shortage of personal protective equipment for front-line workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in England. It will identify the different ways in which people across the voluntary, private and public sectors and the informal world came together in various combinations to address this urgent need. This work-in-progress paper advances Nucleus Data System as a 3-tier organizational structure that collects, captures, processes, analyzes data and finally reports on findings related to equity, diversity and inclusion. The 3-tiers comprise of government and policy makers, technology core and communities. The technology core is formed by syncing the network of community builders, technology and experts in various subject matters, reporting on findings and acting as intermediary between communities and governments/ policy makers. We introduce a new term Digitalization of culture - defined as a real time analysis of situation where two opposing cultures meet and provide real time information to each stakeholder based on facts, history and cultural background rather than emotions. At the heart of our presentation and project—funded by a SSHRC-CMHC Grant within one of the research nodes within the Collaborative Housing Research Network—is the goal to understand the roles and effects of affordable rental housing in the lives of marginalized individuals and families and to do so in a community-university partnership adopting a GBA+ lens and engaging lived expertise so critical to policy, cultural, and systems change. In an important case study, we address systemic barriers, including racism (and impacts on evictions and victimization). A national longitudinal study analyzed the impact of Work-Integrated Social Enterprise (WISE) programs on at-risk youth in Canada. Many different universities across Canada studied this WISE employment holistically evaluating their economic, physical, social and health impacts over a number of years. As few social enterprises operate in First Nation communities, post-secondary internships with colleges and universities in Manitoba became the model studied for providing training and community development to build culturally-appropriate homes and food systems in First Nations. This panel with academics from four universities across Canada will provide their preliminary findings on the many diverse benefits to the youth of WISEs. This presentation will examine the application of a systems approach to effect change due due to Covid in nonprofit organizations. Based on the experience of nonprofit organizations, the paper will describe the context of the change and the change imperatives that form the basis of an integrated systems approach for the pandemic induced change in nonprofits. A summary longitudinal analysis of relevant data will be provided to illustrate the outcome of the transformative change initiative related to the pandemic. The article will emphasize the importance of integrating diverse ingredients as key to effective strategic change in nonprofit organizations. This presentation will examine the application of a systems approach to effect change due due to Covid in nonprofit organizations. Based on the experience of nonprofit organizations, the paper will describe the context of the change and the change imperatives that form the basis of an integrated systems approach for the pandemic induced change in nonprofits. A summary longitudinal analysis of relevant data will be provided to illustrate the outcome of the transformative change initiative related to the pandemic. The article will emphasize the importance of integrating diverse ingredients as key to effective strategic change in nonprofit organizations. This paper draws on a series of case studies of Ontario-based, social service nonprofits that successfully navigated these first two years of the COVID -19 pandemic. Given the key role of strategic planning in adjusting to environmental change, the study aims to explore how these organizations approached strategic planning and any specific relationship between their planning practices and their capability to cope with change. While the study is still ongoing, initial findings show that successful organizations implemented multiple planning modes, where formal plans were complemented with emergent and experimental planning practice. This roundtable situates a community of practice (CoP) as central to spurring more effective, equitable, and just community-campus partnerships. A CoP provides spaces for members to actively exchange perspectives around a common concern and learn together through in-person gatherings or an online platform. Participants streamline efforts and forge innovative partnerships to address critical community issues. Drawing on their experiences in developing national and regional communities of practice in Canada, roundtable participants from Community Campus Engage Canada, Research Impact Canada, and the Maple League of Universities will discuss how they have harnessed knowledge-sharing spaces over the past two years to navigate COVID challenges and meaningfully support community responses to the pandemic. During this roundtable discussion, we will explore the concept of community-driven, engaged learning internships, capstone projects, and course-based projects. We will start with three short presentations of case studies that embrace meaningful, reciprocal connection between university faculty, staff, and students with members of community-based organizations. Our goal with this session is to lead a rich conversation about strategies to ensure the current push from governments, private funders, and academic leadership to offer experiential, work-related learning, does not privilege benefits for the post-secondary institution and industry, over collaborative learning opportunities like the ones illustrated by the presenters. global of the professional a literature review a mapping of the professional in Canada conducted. review, the existing Canadian professional sport club foundations. As part of the data collection, descriptive and financial data from 2018 to 2020 gathered through T3010 information returns published on the Agency (CRA) and annual reports (if This study explores the way in which British international development charities (INGOs) represent their relationship with local partners. Data were collected from 270 donor-focused Letters, Annual Reports, and Annual Accounts published by 39 INGOs. Results highlight differences in the way in which INGOs present their partnership relationships in these communication types, with the letters and narrative reports emphasising co-implementation, while the managerial and financial reports describing a quasi-grantmaking relationship between INGOs and their local partners. Furthermore, findings suggest that concerns around power inequalities associated with the aid chain are not limited to government-funded operations Academic and grey literature has given cooperative boards virtually no consideration in how to understand/express and act in their organization’s best interest. First, we ground our discussion in the importance and understanding of the cooperative’s purpose and the overall Cooperative principles. From this grounding, we explore two broad theoretical frameworks, shareholder (member) primacy and stakeholder approaches as options to ensure boards are acting in the best interest of the cooperative. In particular, we consider two stakeholder models, the Trustee Model, and the Team Production Model, for boards to consider applying to express and uphold their duty. Precarious work and workers have increased due to economic changes, new forms of “gig” work, and environmental conditions (e.g., Covid.) Our research on home healthcare workers in cooperatives and unions indicates that job crafting helps to mitigate the negative impacts of precarious work on workers. Some of the work and working conditions of human service workers can be viewed through a precarity lens. This includes paraprofessional workers, peer workers, and others with structurally limited access to professional educations. This paper utilizes our research on precarity and job crafting among home healthcare workers and applies it to precarious work in HSOs. We tell many stories in the sector to explain how we structure our decision-making, and this facilitated discussion will explore the stories we have and want to tell about accessibility in governance and decision-making. In the context of COVID-19, meetings being ‘open to the public’ took on new meaning in an online setting and there was an increased potential for accommodations that recognized different types of diversity. This session will explore how we might seize opportunities to retain the flexibility and innovatio