Events

REDESIGNING THE TREE OF LIFE: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD A participatory learning conference, informed by expert presentations, with time to build the relationships and shared learning that make future shared work possible. Theological and ethical reflection, learning, organizing. This event is designed to provide an opportunity to share and ground our work

Join us on October 24th during Responsible Investing Week and World Development Information Day for an evening of conversation with Brittany Lambert, Women’s Rights Policy and Advocacy Specialist for Oxfam Canada. She will talk about how investors and citizens can step up to reduce gender inequality and make the world a better place.

Join us on October 5th to help empower girls to protect themselves from threats of violence, stand up for their human rights, become leaders in their community, and transform themselves from victims of violence into voices for change. This year’s event will feature renowned psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Vivian Pender. Dr. Pender has extensive clinical

Join us on Monday October 16, 2017 in Toronto for the 6th Annual Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute. We will be having a number of speakers covering different legal and compliance issues affecting Canadian charities and non-profits. It will be a full day packed with practical legal and ethical compliance information geared toward charities, professional

The Stephen Lewis Foundation is proud to announce the upcoming publication of: Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa. The book launch will feature a conversation between Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC) with author Joanna Henry and editor Michele Landsberg, along with African and Canadian grandmothers featured in the book. Special performance

Location: Vancouver Date: October 19-22, 2017 Cost: 1495 CAD (The cost of the program includes access to our 32 hour online Core Professional certificate program) Format: Online learning, one day in class, 3 day field simulation exercise Interested in volunteering or working in humanitarian or disaster response? Take part in this unique training opportunity to

OCIC Strat Plan 2018+ Online Member Dialogue Join us for the second of three OCIC Strat Plan 2018+ Member Dialogues, as an opportunity to review and discuss our proposed new strategic priorities and Theory of Change, and to share innovative ideas and insights on how best to realize them in the coming five years. This

In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending The Arc—a new documentary about Partners In Health that premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—has been chosen to kick off the 2017-18 Docs Soup season at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto.