NEW ON CSEW’S WEBSITE, LEARNINGWORK.CA

• Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives (CEARC) Working Paper: Towards an international statement of recommended practice for co-operative accounting and reporting

  Co-operatives do not always fit well into accounting frameworks designed with others in mind. CEARC proposes to develop a draft iSORP on accounting and reporting by co-operatives, with a view to exploring its potential. This research project aims at both building a practical accounting tool for co-operatives, while also providing a means for researching, discussing and developing a co-operative accounting perspective. For more information go to: http://www.learningwork.ca/node/242

• Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) Report: Redefining how success is measured in First Nations, Inuit and Métis learning
  
  The report:
  • outlines the key characteristics of holistic lifelong learning for First Nations, Inuit and Métis;
  • identifies data gaps and challenges that limit non-Aboriginal understanding of Aboriginal learning;
  • presents three Holistic Lifelong Learning Models for First Nations, Inuit and Métis; and proposes how each model can be used to develop a national, holistic framework for measuring lifelong learning.  To view report please go to: http://www.learningwork.ca/node/244

• Learning to Learn: The Very First Program in Cognitive Education for Individuals with Little Schooling
  
  Learning to Learn, the very first training program aimed at teaching adults with little schooling in the methods necessary to learn, was jointly achieved by the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the Centre DÉBAT, a literacy group working in an impoverished district of Montreal. Created with the financial participation of the National Literacy Secretariat, the program was initially published in French in the autumn of 2000, then translated into English and launched in Montreal in April 2006.  For further details go to:  http://www.learningwork.ca/node/243

• The Canadian Labour Congress, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Quebec Federation of Labour (FTQ) and the United Steelworkers recently commissioned a major, technical report on the manufacturing sector from the economic consulting firm Informetrica. This paper summarizes the main conclusions of the report from a labour perspective, stressing the continuing importance of manufacturing to a strong, modern economy; the threats caused by changing patterns of trade; and the need for governments to develop a plan. For more information go to: http://canadianlabour.ca/index.php/Andrew_Jackson_Paper/1276

APPLY NOW FOR THE 2008 YORK UNIVERSITY – MAYTREE FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS' INSTITUTE

• The York-Maytree Executive Directors’ Institute focuses on the development of strategic leadership in a rapidly changing voluntary sector. The program is designed for innovative non-profit management executives who are interested in developing networks, tools and knowledge to enhance their abilities to lead effective organizations and communities. The Institute is open to executive directors from the non-profit sector. The deadline for applications is Friday, December 14, 2007. For further details go to: 
  http://www.maytree.com/index.asp?section=2&art=edi_yorkmaytree

"THE BOSS" RECOMMENDS A BOOK

• "When a company comes and exploits natural resources, there are laws that say they have to replenish those resources. Yet, when a company comes into a town and exploits our greatest natural resource, our workers, there are few laws that protect the people. Tony Mazzocchi spent his life fighting to protect workers like those who lost their jobs in my hometown and all over the country."

  The words are those of Bruce Springsteen -- and I hope that's enough to get some of you to pay attention to an important new biography of man most of you will never have heard of -- Tony Mazzocchi.

  The book is entitled The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: Tony Mazzocchi and it's this week's LabourStart Book of the Week.
  https://ssl30.pair.com/unionist/ccp51/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?rrc=N&pg=prod&ref=mazzocchi&affl=labourstart

SEMINAR – MAPPING THE SOCIAL ECONOMY: THREE VIEWS

• David Lasby, Imagine Canada; Mark Ventry, Ontario Co-operative Association; and Sherida Ryan, OISE/University of Toronto

  Wednesday, January 16, 2008, noon - 1:30 pm
  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
  Room 12-199, 12th floor, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto

  David Lasby will discuss the recently completed mapping of Ontario’s social economy that combines nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and other community organizations.

  Using data taken from the first-ever census of Ontario co-ops, credit unions and caisses populaires, Mark Ventry will discuss the social and economic impact of the province's co-op sector, what census information surprised On Co-op, and what the data confirmed.

  Sherida Ryan will discuss Ontario organizations that meet the broad definition applied to social economy enterprises and that rely on internet-based technology to achieve their organizational objectives, their similarities to traditional social economy enterprises, use of information technology and their understanding of an online social economy enterprise.

  Bring your lunch and mug. Water, coffee and tea will be provided. For more information, contact us at: (416) 978-0907 or mailto:secspeaker@oise.utoronto.ca.

  The webcast will be broadcast live at the time of the event. For instructions and to view the webcast: http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/webcast.php.
  

THE 2007 MYERS CENTER OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARDS ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS ANNOUNCED

• BOSTON, MA (Dec. 5, 2007) - They definitely are passionate about books, and about social justice. For twenty-three years, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America has identified books speaking of too-often erased histories and too scantily noticed ideas and strategies for a more humane future. Today the Center announced the 2007 winners:

  ·       Kenny Fries, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory (Carroll & Graf)
  ·       Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  ·       The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (South End Press)
  ·       Sara Littlecrow-Russell, The Secret Powers of Naming (University of Arizona Press)
  ·       Tina Lopes & Barb Thomas, Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations (Between The Lines
  ·       Micki McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Harvard University Press)
  ·       Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the US (Pluto Press)
  ·       Alex Sanchez, Getting It: A Novel (Simon & Schuster
  ·       Chip Smith, The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism, (Camino Press)
  ·       Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)

 You may visit the website: http://www.myerscenter.org/

 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS – SPRING 2008 TORONTO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

• Deadline for submission: January 15, 2008

  Date & location of event:
  Thursday - Saturday, April 24th - 26th
  OISE/University of Toronto
  252 Bloor Street West (St. George Station)

  “Community development” . . . “community engagement” . . . “community organizing” . . . “neighbourhood action” . . . “community capacity building” . . . “popular education” . . . “community economic development” . . . “participatory action research” . . . “community asset building” . . . “community-based research” . . . “social justice movement building” . . .we have many names for what we do, but whatever we call it and whether we are volunteers or paid workers, we all have some things in common. Primarily, we’re trying to make a difference in our world by finding ways for people in neighbourhoods, communities, or regions to gain more control over their lives, and mobilizing for better living conditions, more social justice, peace, equity, and opportunities to participate, contribute, and benefit from society. Working together towards collectively and democratically chosen goals, we know that people can achieve significant changes.

  We are planning a three-day CD institute with workshops, open discussion forums, social events, and cultural sharing (music, art, theatre) in a learning environment. Opportunities for community work practitioners to reflect, learn, share (ideas, resources, perspectives, and insights), develop strategies, and gain skills for more effective work. Build and/or strengthen networks, work against that which divides us, improve our foundations for analysis and planning. Hope and vision to sustain progressive social change and yet still have fun.

  We encourage proposals with creative and unique workshop formats, as long as they are interactive and participatory. Attendees will expect popular education or adult education modes of learning, with lots of opportunity to share knowledge and expertise that they have developed. These formats may include presentations, case studies, short papers, theoretical discussions, culturally-based arts, demonstration, skill training, small group discussion, field visits, or any mixture providing ample hands-on or interpersonal interaction, as well as knowledge sharing.

  For more information:

  Toronto Community Development Institute
  2 Carlton St. #1001
  Toronto, ON M5B 1J3
  Tel: 416-828-0133
  Fax: 416-351-0107

Web: http://www.torontocdi.ca/

Email: mailto:TorontoCDI@gmail.com

JOB POSTING – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ONESTEP

• For over 20 years, ONESTEP (Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects) has taken a leadership role to advance the value, the services and the contributions of the community based training sector.

  ONESTEP advocates for appropriate and sustainable funding to invest in training and employment organizations, who are working to meet the needs of marginalized clients with barriers to accessing sustainable jobs.

  Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will continue to shape this dynamic organization, reinforcing its credibility as the voice of the community based training sector.

  The ED will:

  ·       Work with the Board to achieve the organization's short- and long-term Strategic Plans
  ·       Maintain strong communication with the membership
  ·       Act as a connector and unite the efforts of the membership
  ·       Practice financial vibrancy by seeking new sources of revenue
  ·       Sustain relationships with all levels of government and other industry stakeholders

  The successful candidate will be passionate about the sector, have strong management skills - a strategic thinker, be an excellent relationship builder and be highly resourceful with exceptional communication skills. Click here for a more detailed job description:
  Web: http://www.bettermail.ca/ct/302/43645/1891685/e86943e0bc3b1a9bbf78e848b4c42cc4

  Please reply in confidence by:
  Dec. 31, 2007

  Attn: Hiring Committee
  Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP)
  517 Wellington Street West, Suite 207
  Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
  M5V 1G1  Please respond by email:  mailto:hiring@onestep.on.ca.

  Applicants will not be considered unless a 1-3 page attachment in point form is included with their resume. The attachment must clearly demonstrate how their previous skills and experience correspond to the listed qualifications and job description.

  ONESTEP embraces diversity and encourages all qualified candidates to apply.http://www.torontocdi.ca/

JOIN SANTA AND WORKERS' ACTION CENTRE ON OUR HOLIDAY BAD BOSS BUS TOUR

• Monday December 17th, 10:00am sharp!

  Join Santa Claus, Workers' Action Centre members and Scarborough residents as we say PAY UP to temp agencies who don't pay public holiday pay.

  This Holiday BAD BOSS BUS TOUR will be visiting three Scarborough temp agencies on Santa's naughty list. These temp agencies routinely violate the law by refusing to pay holiday pay to temp agency workers, or by making up their own unfair rules on how they want to pay.

  Because of these unfair practices, thousands of temp workers will receive no pay this Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. Workers are being pushed further into poverty because of this unequal treatment.

  Workers' Action Centre believes that temp workers should have the same rights and benefits as regular workers

  Call Workers' Action Centre to reserve your seat on the bus!

  (416) 531-0778, ext. 221

JOURNAL ARTICLES ONLINE

• Enterprise, diversity and inclusion: a new model of community-based enterprise development 
  Connections and disconnections between civic engagement and social capital in community-based nonprofits

  Author: Jo Anne Schneider
  Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, 572-597 (2007)
  http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/4/572

• Enterprise, diversity and inclusion: a new model of community-based enterprise development 

  Author: Tony Swash
  Local Economy, Volume 22 Issue 4 2007
  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a788291536~fulltext=713240930

• Working for less? Women's part-time wage penalties across countries 

Authors: Elena Bardasi; Janet C. Gornick
Feminist Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1 January 2008, pages 37 - 72
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a788403923&fulltext=713240928

• So seldom for us, so often against us: blacks and law in Canada

  Author: Esmeralda M. A. Thornhill
  Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3, 321-337 (2008)
  http://jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/38/3/321

• Micro-level social justice projects, pedagogy, and democratic movements

  Authors: Rodney D. Coates; Nancy A. Heitzeg
  American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 51 Number 5, January 2008 595-598
  http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/5/595?etoc

• The philanthropic poor: in search of explanations for the relative generosity of lower income households

  Author: Pamala Wiepking
  Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol.18, No. 4 / December 2007
  http://www.springerlink.com/content/h100nx4116751711/fulltext.html

 

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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)

Social Economy Centre (SEC) - http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/index.php
Tel: 416-978-0907, Fax: 416-926-4749

Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca or http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751