What are the top reasons that social entrepreneurs struggle? What can you do to guard against burnout, design mistakes, insufficient community support, over-expenditure and self-doubt?

Join us at this Brown Bag Lunch to hear from Jonathan Wade, a social enterprise consultant who can share the experience borne from working with over 600 social entrepreneur clients in the last two decades. Learn about how to choose a governance model, how to conduct solid market research, how to work with like-minded partners and how to move from ideals to action!

Jonathan Wade has over 15 years supporting individuals, nonprofits, and co-operatives wishing to create, launch and grow a social enterprise. With expertise in governance, research, business planning, marketing and operations, Jonathan works with clients across the country who seek to create social value through the sale of goods and services.

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

F*ckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. In this string of events across the globe, we put three to four people on spotlight to share their own professional fuckups.

The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, we tell them all.

This episode, it’s F*ck It! Feeling the fear but doing it anyway.

Our speakers are:

Arts Serrano

Founder and Principal Designer

One Zero Design Co.

Joseph Jiao

Head of Marketing

Schema

Apol Massebieau

Founder and Designer

Good Luck, Humans

JOIN US!

Date: April 21, 2022 | Thursday

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the Philippines, Fckup Nights are sponsored and organised by Impact Hub Manila.

Impact Hub is a global network of impact makers, entrepreneurs and global organizations driving change.

Follow Impact Hub Manila and FckUp Nights Manila on social for updates.

#ImpactHub #ImpactHubManila #FuckUpNights

Life is full of challenges. Some are bigger than others, but everyone faces them nevertheless. Whenever challenges come our way, most people say we can choose to either run away from them or run toward them.

Join us at this Brown Bag Lunch to explore the practical ways to overcome challenges by not running away or towards them but simply holding your ground. We will explore how to recover from challenges and grow from them and become a better version of yourself.

Milind Kumar is a high school student in Ottawa who values helpfulness, accountability, and ambition. He has an excellent combination of leadership abilities, intelligence, and curiosity to learn more while questioning the status quo. Most importantly, he continues to choose joy while facing the difficulties life has to offer, like cancer. His infectious personality rubs off on others, making him a force to be reckoned with. Want to learn more about Milind’s story, check out his Instagram or Youtube.

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

In this panel discussion and networking event, we’ll explore how a combination of obstacles can make it especially challenging for women_ to launch impact-driven businesses – but through resilience and adaptation, it can be achieved. Our panellists will discuss what resilience and adaptation looks like in practice, sharing stories from the perspective of entrepreneurship, social impact and psychology.

The event will be in-person, with a livestream of the panel discussion on Zoom.

Agenda:

19:00 – Welcome and Introduction

19:10 – Panel discussion Resilience & Adaptation: The Journey of the Female Entrepreneur

19:40 Q&A with panellists

19:50 Introduction of EmpowHER founders

20:00 Networking Apéro

Women are still highly underrepresented in the startup sector with a share of around 20% – looking at science and tech-based startups the share is even 10% female founders. The reasons for these disparities are complex, but women clearly have to overcome a whole range of obstacles on their way to the top. This underrepresentation is not only a societal and systemic issue for gender equality, but also a missed opportunity for the economy. Furthermore, in a 2018 article in the Harvard Business Review (Why Social Entrepreneurs Are So Burned Out) the authors report study results that show ‘when trying to achieve commercial goals and give back to the community at the same time, these entrepreneurs are likely to overload themselves with too many responsibilities and, consequently, deplete their personal resources.’

Panellists:

Dr. Mariana Christen Jakob has over 20 years experience in social innovation, CSR and impact entrepreneurship. Mariana is an expert within impact investing as well as non-financial support for impact entrepreneurs, and she founded SEIF in 2011.

Doris Erne is the co-founder of Wheycation, a Swiss company that upcycles food waste from side streams of food production into drinking shakes. She worked in the food industry for 12 years before trading her corporate life for entrepreneurship, and endured her fair share of challenges, but has persevered and adapted her businesses along the way.

Roxana Cristina Petrus is a coach, psychologist and consultant with a background in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and transformative coaching. She has been a start-up and an NGO co-founder, in addition to working with numerous female entrepreneurs over the years.

Event moderator:

Kate Bottriell is a program manager for the EmpowHER program, as well as an entrepreneur and founder of Möbel Kollektiv Basel. She has worked as a senior project manager for 15+ year on implementation of sustainability with corporates and international development agencies.

Through this event, run as part of the EmpowHER program, we aim to create and inspire change, and bring together women_ to connect and support each other on their entrepreneurial journeys. While this event has been developed with female_ founders in mind, everyone is welcome.

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Please note that by registering and participating in this event, you agree to the recording of your appearance and/or your voice, which Verein Impact Hub Basel can publish in photos, videos and accompanying sound recordings via online and offline media and for marketing purposes.

EmpowHER is a six-month inner and outer journey designed to support development for early-stage female founders. It is run by the Impact Hub Basel and Thrive with Mentoring, is part of the Female Founder Initiative, and supported by the Arcas Foundation.

Female Founder Initiative is run by the Impact Hub Zurich, and aims to tackle underrepresentation of women in the startup scene, which is not only a societal and systemic issue for gender equality, but also a missed opportunity for the economy. It aims to alter the narrative about women entrepreneurs in Switzerland.

The Impact Hub is a community of purpose-driven members working towards the Sustainable Development Goals and making a positive impact in the world. In Switzerland, there are five Impact Hubs. The EmpowHER program is run by the Impact Hub Basel (in collaboration with Thrive with Mentoring).

Thrive with Mentoring is a global network of women for women by women that catalyzes and sustains successful mentoring relationships.

Arcas Foundation promotes innovative, impulse-giving and entrepreneurial approaches with a sustainable impact with the aim of strengthening the social fabric in Switzerland through integration and greater equality of opportunity.

Are you a community-based organization working in Canada on peace, gender equity, or education? Are you interested in building your evaluation capacity? Curious about a community-led, grassroots approach to Canada’s SDG 2030 agenda?

The Centre for Community-Based Research and Conrad Grebel University College are hosting a four-part webinar series on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and community-based evaluation.

This webinar will provide an overview of community-based evaluation and how it can be used to localize the Sustainable Development Goals. While we ground our conversation in SDGs 4 (quality education), 5 (gender equity), and 16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions), anyone is welcome to attend.

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Co-facilitated by team members from The Centre for Community-Based Research & the Kindred Centre for Peace Advancement at Conrad Grebel University College, who are partnering on the project, “Building Community-Based Evaluation Capacity to Advance Sustainable Development Goals”.

Facilitators include:

• Sarah Switzer, Senior Researcher, Centre for Community-Based Research
• Jean de Dieu Basabose, Researcher, Centre for Community-Based Research
• Rich Janzen, Executive Director, Centre for Community-Based Research
• Madeline Docherty, Student Intern, Centre for Community-Based Research
• Paul Heidebrecht, Director, Kindred Centre for Peace Advancement, Conrad Grebel University College

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This webinar is just one part of the conversation. Register for the rest of the series:

• Webinar 1(April 1, 2022): Overview of Community-Based Evaluation: Evaluating SDGs for Local Impact
• Webinar 2 (April 22, 2022): Laying the Foundation in Community-Based Evaluation: Evaluating SDGs for Local Impact
• Webinar 3 (April 29, 2022): Planning your evaluation and data gathering and analysis in Community-Based Evaluation: Evaluating SDGs for Local Impact
• Webinar 4 (May 6, 2022): Acting on Findings in Community-Based Evaluation: Evaluating SDGs for Local Impact

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

Over the past two years, public transit agencies have grappled with plummeting ridership and revenue. Although transit systems are slowly inching back to normal, more support is needed from federal and provincial governments to improve their finances. Without new funding, public transit systems won’t be able to improve the quality of their service, the affordability of their fares, or the viability of greener transportation modes.

In this Brown Bag Lunch, we’ll discuss what steps have been taken to improve how transit is funded in Canada, and further explore what governments can do to make transit more sustainable in the long run.

Matthew Pelletier is a Data and Research Officer with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities – the national voice for Canada’s cities, towns, and rural municipalities. At FCM, Matt supports research on municipal finance, public transit, and infrastructure funding. He is originally from Ottawa but has been living on PEI for the past two years. He is passionate about climate change, public transit, and housing affordability.

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

De la patate au papet et retour : bouclons la boucle

Quand on parle de boucle, on ne pense pas qu’à celle de la saucisse au chou, mais tout l’écosystème alimentaire vaudois, de la ferme la table. Des vaudois et des vaudoises en pleine santé implique une économie, une société et surtout de la nourriture saine. C’est pour cela que nous voulons être hôte d’un espace de discussion, d’innovation et d’implication pour tout l’écosystème alimentaire vaudois afin de repenser radicalement notre rapport à ce qui nous fait vivre : notre sol et ce qu’il produit.

Ceci n’est pas une conférence où la parole ne sera donnée qu’à des experts, mais un espace d’échange et d’expérimentation ouverte où les participant.e.s seront responsable du contenu et de ce qu’il en ressort. Pour ce faire, nous avons mis notre plat cantonal l’honneur autour duquel tout tournera : le papet vaudois.

Les discussions se dérouleront autour de 5 thèmes clés :

1. LA NOURRITURE, comment elle est produite, acheminée, transformée et consommée.

2. LE SAVOIR, des low techs aux new techs, des Incas à l’EPFL

3. LES RESSOURCES, ou l’impact du sol, de l’eau, de l’énergie, de l’argent et de la politique sur ce que nous mangeons.

4. LA COLLECTIVITÉ, qui avons-nous envie d’inviter table ? Qui met les mains dans la terre ?

5. LE RYTHME, à table ou sur le pouce, croissance exponentielle ou rythmes naturels, quelle rythme pour notre vie ?

Au-delà de l’espace d’échange et de discussion central, il y aura de la place pour :

Se reposer – Regagner de l’énergie – Apprendre plus – Échanger et tisser des liens – Déguster une de nos reinterprétations du papet vaudois

Pourquoi et pour qui ?

Nous le sentons tou.te.s : notre système alimentaire est en train de changer drastiquement. Il devient la fois plus local et plus sain, mais aussi plus numérisé et rapide, tout en mettant de plus en plus de pression sur la biodiversité. Le savoir-faire oublié reprend les devants de la scène et se combine aux innovations de pointe pour faire face aux problèmes environnementaux et climatiques. De nouveaux modèles commerciaux circulaires sont en train d’émerger et de modifier profondément notre rapport à la nourriture. Pourtant une chose reste inchangée : la magie rassembleuse de la cuisine quotidienne, de boire et manger !

Lors de cette journée, tu :

Exploreras les défis actuels, les questions clées, les solutions potentielles et ce qui est déjà mis en pratique

Participeras des discussions et des échanges entre entrepreneur.se.s animés par des experts qui donneront lieu des recommandations concrètes échangeras et tisseras des liens avec des parties prenantes du secteur tout en faisant l’expérience de la circularité au sein d’un microcosme

Contribueras  à définir des engagements précis pour rendre l’écosystème agroalimentaire vaudois plus humain, juste et durable.

C’est pourquoi nous créons un événement qui ne parle pas simplement de ces problèmatiques mais qui est un exemple concret, du design à l’organisation, de l’écosystème agroalimentaire que nous souhaitons pour le futur. Nous voulons réunir des personnes, des entreprises et des compétences issues d’univers différents. Nous voulons combler des fossés et mobiliser l’intelligence collective en incluant tous les secteurs qui ont une influence sur notre manière de manger.

Paysan.ne, chercheur.se, politicien.ne, entrepreneur.se, musicien.ne… si tu te sens appelé.e, tu es de la partie.

Prix et inscription

Nous voulons un événement aussi divers que possible avec les bonnes personnes, pas seulement celles qui peuvent se le payer. C’est pour cela que l’événement n’a pas de prix fixe, mais un prix conseillé : 180.– par personne. Si tu peux mettre moins, ta participation est plus importante, si tu peux mettre plus, tu nous aide inclure plus de monde !

Inscriptions ici sur eventbrite

Programme détaillée

08:00 Ouverture des portes et café

09:00 Début de l’événement

09:30 – 12:00 Groupes de discussions entre professionnels

12:00 – 13:00 Dégustation des reinterprétations du papet

dès 13h00 Ouverture de l’événement au public

13:00 – 16:30 Continuation des groupes de discussion

16:30 – 17:30 Recommandations, engagements et prochains pas

17:30 Apéro zéro déchet

Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs have been historically excluded from society and creating their own income streams, and local entrepreneurs and getting less and less support from authorities and governments. Join us to discuss the systematic barriers that these entrepreneurs face, and discuss and learn ways in which business support organisations, authorities, financial institutions, and allies can support these entrepreneurs, and the steps we can take as a community to support healthy and diverse entrepreneurship.

The event will include a panel of experts that will share their experiences and actions that can be taken, followed by a market with local businesses founded by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs from Impact Hub King’s Cross’ New Roots programme.

New Roots is a programme run by Impact Hub King’s Cross and Impact Hub in partnership with GoDaddy to support Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs to start their businesses through mentoring and workshops. We’ve supported 90+ entrepreneurs to learn business skills and launch their businesses.

Panelists:

• TBA

Market sellers:

• TBA

Strategic planning is critical to an organization’s success, but in a constantly changing environment, traditional approaches just aren’t good enough. Before investing time, money, and energy on a formal strategic plan, it’s important to ask key questions about the kind of planning process that makes the most sense for your organization today. There are many options to consider. Let’s talk about them!

Monica Chohan works with people and organizations across Canada. As Founder and Principal Consultant at Wilbrod House Consulting, she pursues her love of facilitation, strategic planning, and good governance through varied projects with awesome people. Monica also provides legal services and conducts workplace investigations through Chohan Law. Originally from Calgary and now based in Ottawa,

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

Every year, CKX’s Cohort X holds space for 4-6 leaders working at the intersections of gender and climate justice. Drawing from their experience in designing and running this unique program, the team behind Cohort X will share strategies for cultivating equitable spaces that help leaders to tackle complex, intersecting challenges.

Learn how cohort-based programming can challenge traditional models of organizing for action, and leave with experience-backed strategies to help you centre co-creation, reciprocal relationships, and reflection in service of those at the forefront of transformative action.

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Juhi Sohani is a community organizer and digital communications specialist with a special focus on the impacts of capitalism and colonialism on climate justice. Her passion for movement-building was seeded by inherent collectivist principles in her Pakistani upbringing and the class struggle that affects us all.

Yas Hassen is a community organizer rooted in decolonial approaches to community engagement. They are interested in bridging the gaps and finding the intersections between Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, anti-racism, belonging and community, anti-poverty, and climate justice in pursuit of just futures.

Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX) is a social change agency that aspires to make shift happen in the pursuit of just futures, fundamental and healing change that challenges longstanding and entrenched paradigms.

This is one of four in a series of workshops on Stories, Skills, and Mindsets for Collaboration, made possible with the support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s SDG Programme.

Join us this February to hear from three inspiring leaders about the innovative strategies they’re using to support inclusive collaboration as they strive for social and climate justice in their communities.

More events in this series:

• Feb 3 | In Conversation with Alicia Richins – The SDGs: What Are They Good For?
• Feb 17 |In Conversation with Diane Roussin – Part 1: Understanding Indigenous Wisdom & Social Innovation
• Feb 24| In Conversation with Diane Roussin – Part 2: Applying Indigenous Wisdom in Social Innovation

Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

• A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
• This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here. Note that our opening hours may be affected by current COVID-19 restrictions. Please check with us if you have any questions about visiting our space.