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Nourishing Ideas
Hospitality
“Hospitality (noun): the friendly reception and treatment of guests or
strangers; the quality of receiving and treating guests and strangers in a warm,
friendly, generous way.” Hospitality is deeply rooted in all our traditions,
east and west, north and south. But what about our organizations?
BACI (the Burnaby Association for Community
Inclusion) made a conscious commitment to infusing hospitality into everything
it does.
Find
out how...
The Earth Charter
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building
a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. Formally endorsed by over 2400
organizations, including UNESCO and the World Conservation Union, the Charter
“seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared
responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living
world.”
Learn more...
Good Conversation
dropping knowledge
dropping knowledge is a global initiative to support the free and open
sharing of knowledge among the people of the world. A freely accessible
knowledge portal and dialogue forum, dropping knowledge’s web platform
invites the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange viewpoints and
ideas, and join in conversation around the most comprehensive database of social
topics ever compiled.
Drop in...
Blogging for Inclusion
Glenda Watson Hyatt has lived with cerebral palsy for 40 years, and shares her
experiences, thoughts and activities through her chatty and witty
blog. Recently Glenda joined over 100 other bloggers in “Blogging Against Disablism,”
an online conversation about the discrimination still facing people with
disabilities. Read Glenda’s thoughts on
Blogging
for Inclusion – then
join the conversation...
Inspiring
Action
Communities Collaborating Institute
Tamarack’s Communities Collaborating Institute is back! The 5-day urban
retreat will bring together community leaders from across Canada to focus on
collaborating for change. It will include workshops, renowned speakers, and a
host of activities designed to inspire and rejuvenate. But it’s more than just
an event – it’s the start of a powerful learning community in which participants
will form strategic groups to facilitate ongoing learning and innovation.
Learn more...
Measuring Up Accessibility and Inclusion
Fund
The Province of BC is investing $2 million to
support community projects aimed at increasing accessibility and inclusion for
persons with disabilities. The Measuring Up Accessibility and Inclusion Fund,
managed by
2010
Legacies Now, will provide some 70 grants of up to $25,000 in support
of community projects aligned with the
Measuring Up
initiative and the Province’s
10 by 10
Challenge,
which aims to increase the employment of people with disabilities in BC by 10%
by 2010.
Check it out...
“What is there
more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
– Aeschylus
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Vol. 6, Issue
4, June 2007
2007
Fraser Valley Community Conference: "Creating Community Systems Change
through Collaboration"
June 5-6, Abbotsford, BC
Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving,
Disability, Aging and Technology (FICCDAT) brings together
5 conferences collaboratively addressing aspects of these issues
June
16-19, Toronto
Communities Collaborating Institute
October 15-19, Kitchener, ON
The 2nd Canadian Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation (C2D2) will follow up
on the highly successful 2005 C2D2 conference – stay tuned! November
12-14, Vancouver
Taking IT Global
is an online community that connects youth to find
inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their
local and global communities.
Future Search is a planning process
used around the world to achieve shared goals and fast action. Meeting
over three days, people tell stories about their past, present and
desired future, discovering their common ground through dialogue and
devising new forms of cooperative planning.
Marion Botsford Fraser was one of four finalists for the 2007 British
Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her book, Requiem for My
Brother, is a tribute to her brother Dave, who was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis in 1992. In this poignant memoir the author describes
her brother’s illness and death, their deepening relationship, and the
enduring bond they forged on an epic canoe trip down the Coppermine
River.
Read
more...
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Us
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