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Listen & Learn: a catalogue of past webinars

2023

April 4, 2023   Meaningful Corporate Engagement in National Volunteer Week by Volunteer Canada  In this webinar, we identified best practices for corporations to engage their companies and their employees in National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 16-22, 2023. 

2022

Skills-based Volunteering to Support Affordable Housing, presented in November 2022 with Ian McCann, Manager, Community Investment & Partnerships, Meridian Credit Union and Brian Sibley, Executive Director, Kiwanis Homes Inc.

Corporate Volunteering for a Post Pandemic World, presented in July 2022 with Lorrie Foster, Director Corporate Strategy, IAVE. A blog is also available.  

Community Impact and The Role of Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s), presented in April 2022 with HSBC’s Kate Minson, Manager, Community Investment and Laurel Jay, Manager, Inclusion and Talent. A blog is also available.

2021

Employee Autonomy in Corporate Citizenship, presented in November 2021 with Wendy Cooper, Senior Specialist, Global Partnerships, Sun Life. A blog is also available.

The 10 Best Employee Community Engagement Practices, presented in October 2021 with Sarah Bevan, President and CEO, UBS Bank Canada and Elizabeth Dove, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada. A written summary is located here.  

Promoting Community Engagement to Customers, presented in September 2021 with Fran Ulbalde, Senior Program Manager, Community & Social Impact, TELUS for TELUS’s Day of Giving. A written summary is located here.  

A Journey of Reconciliation in Corporate Canada, presented in April 2021 with Alexandra Biron, Manager, Deloitte Indigenous and Audra Santa, Strategic Communications Lead, Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund. A written summary is located here.  

How to Move Mountains in a CSR Team of One, presented in March 2021 with Brooke Cromar, CSR Manager & Executive Director, Randstad Canada Charitable Foundation. A summary is also available here. 

Discovering New Ways to Virtually Engage Stakeholders in the Community, presented in January 2021 with members of Home Depot Canada Foundation and Community Investment team. A written summary is located here.  

2020

Navigating Multi-Sector Partnerships for Social Impact, presented in December 2020 with members of Tata Consultancy Services. A written summary is located here.  
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Beyond Protesting: Productively Engaging Team Members in Social-Justice Efforts at Work, presented in November 2020 with Bea Boccalandro, President of VeraWorks. A written summary is located here.  

Effects of the Pandemic on Employee Community Engagement Programs, presented in October 2020 with Elizabeth Dove, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada and Teri O’Brien, Corporate & Programmes Manager, Volunteer Ireland. A written summary is located here. The full report in English can be found here and the full report in French can be found here

Innovation & Adaptability: Enabling and Inspiring Giving Through a Global Pandemic, presented in September 2020 with Allison Fary, Senior Project Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Communications, TELUS. A written summary is located here.  

Corporate Response to COVID-19 – Good Practices and Considerations, presented in April 2020 with Elizabeth Dove, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada. 

How to Tell if Your CSR Program is Boosting “Purpose” in your Company, presented in January 2020 with Bea Boccalandro, President of VeraWorks. A written summary is located here.  

2019

Weaving Social Purpose Into the Fabric of Corporate Culture, presented in November 2019 with Jeannie White, Director, Employee Experience, Symcor and Peggie Pelosi, Founder & Strategic Advisor, Orenda. A written summary is located here.  

Journey to Establishing an International Corporate Volunteering Program, presented in October 2019 with Rachel Dick, Corporate Campaigns Manager, Coast Capital Savings and members of Uniterra. A written summary is located here.  

9 Hottest Trends in Workplace Giving and Volunteering, presented in September 2019 with Chris Jarvis, Co-Founder & Chief Strategic Officer, Realized Worth and Elizabeth Dove, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada. A written summary is located here.   

Preparing Employees for Board Service, presented in May 2019 with Moira Taylor, Executive-In-Residence, Capacity Canada and Joanna Lohrenz, VP, Consumer Experience, Manulife Canada. A written summary is located here.   

Best Workplaces for Giving Back, presented by April 2019 with Alison Grenier, Head of Culture and Research, Great Place to Work Canada and Elizabeth Dove, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada. A written summary is located here.  

CSR & HR Collaboration for Employee Engagement, presented in March 2019 with members of Corporate Citizenship and HR at RBC and Deloitte Canada. A written summary is located here.  

Engaging and Empowering Employees to Lead Programs, presented in February 2019 with Chris Jarvis, Co-Founder & Chief Strategic Officer, Realized Worth and Rachel Dick, Corporate Campaigns Manager, Coast Capital Savings. A written summary is located here.

2018  

Health and Safety for Employee Community Engagement, presented in November 2018 with members of Volunteer Canada, BMS Canada Risk Services and Cenovus Energy. A written summary is located here.   

Unleashing Changemakers: Creative Approaches to Engage Employees in Community, presented in October 2018 with Tanya Bell, Senior Manager, Citizenship Engagement, RBC and Eileen Butler, Program Lead, SAP One Billion Lives. A written summary is located here.  

Pro-Bono and Skills-Based Volunteering: What’s New, What’s Working, presented in September 2018 with associates from LBG, Adobe and iSisters Technology. A written summary is located here.  

Past CCEC (Formally CCOV) Gatherings


Winter 2022: Inclusion & Belonging

Getting Comfortable with the Discomfort

  • Presentation
    • Dominique Riviere, Ph.D., Creator & Principal Consultant, Fictive Kin Equity Lab

Volunteering Through a Lens of Racial Equity

  • Recording
    • Breauna Dorelus, Founder and Chief Cause Consultant, Connecting the Cause.

Trust, Intention, and Influence: Exploring Inclusion & Belonging

  • Recording
    • Dominique Riviere, Ph.D., Creator & Principal Consultant, Fictive Kin Equity Lab
    • Brooke Cromar, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility & Inclusion, Randstad Canada

Exclusion by Tax Status

  • Recording
    • Richard Bridge, Charity Lawyer
    • Cathy Taylor, Executive Director, Ontario Non-Profit Network

 

June 2021: Build Back Better, Together

Fundraising: Zoom, and just like that it’s all different

  • Moderator: Ken Wyman (consultant, Professor Emeritus) Speakers: Laina Gibson (Vice President, Philanthropy and Communications; The Neighbourhood Group); Rachel MacLeod (Senior Manager, Citizenship Engagement, RBC); Jeannie White (Director, Employee Experience, Symcor).
  • Fundraising During a Pandemic

The changing nature of our partnerships

  • Moderator: Elizabeth Dove (Director, Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada) Speakers: Jessica Fisher (Senior Partnerships & Social Impact Advisor, The Co-operators); Fabrice Grover (Executive Director, Innovations for Learning Canada); Brittany Johnston (Manager, Partnerships, Enactus Canada); Andrew Lusztyk (Co-Founder and Program Lead for the Together Project); Rashmi Vohra (District Vice President, TD Bank Group); Jeannie White (Director, Employee Experience, Symcor).

Towards a National Voluntary Action Strategy


April 2021: Joint Conference with Points of Light – The New Normal

Welcome Remarks

  • Recording (passcode: x980KCb@)
    • Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe Cultural Consultant
    • Paula Speevak, President & CEO, Volunteer Canada
    • Natalye Paquin, President & CEO, Points of Light

What does the next moment of change look like for employees?

  • Recording (passcode: %N!pgu1F)
    • Jeff Schwartz, Principal and US Future of Work Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP; Author, Work Disrupted
    • Shauna Brail, Associate Professor at the Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga
    • Bea Boccalandro, Founder & CEO, VeraWorks and author of “Do Good at Work”
    • Elizabeth Dove, Director of Corporate Citizenship, Volunteer Canada

Beyond DEI Policy to Racial Equity Change

  • Recording (passcode: p&^b7w8#)
    • Latia Curry, Principal, RALLY
    • Robert Rizzo, Senior Director of Community Investment, Conagra Brands and Senior Director, Conagra Brands Foundation
    • Rachel Dick, Employee and Corporate Campaigns Manager, Coast Capital Savings
    • Jerome Tennille, Manager of Social Impact & Volunteerism, Marriott International

What about the SDGs? Articulating the Value of Social Engagement

Strategies for Supporting your Employees’ Voice

  • Recording (passcode: $5?EiG^V)
    • Nicole “Nikki” Clifton, President of Social Impact and The UPS Foundation, UPS
    • Nisha Kadaba, Global Social Impact, PagerDuty

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August 2020 Virtual Gathering

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  • Context for Re-Building: sharing the latest non-profit and corporate community engagement data
  • Building community resilience through strengthening organizational and individual capacity

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