We have an exciting line up of workshops to provide you with tools and training to more effectively run your organizations and better serve our community. Along with great networking opportunities with leaders from across Canada, this will be a must attend event. Don’t miss out!
Take a minute to review our line-up of sessions and agenda.
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William Petruck
President, FUNDING matters Inc. |
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The UCC Community Development Workshop is an educational training workshop and best practices sharing day focusing on specific areas of community development such as Board Governance, Influencing Decision Makers, Engaging Youth and New Immigrants and Serving your Membership along with many other current issues.
The intent of this workshop is to enhance the capacity of our community leaders, organizations and communities to achieve our goals and priorities, address community issues and make a positive impact on the continued development of our community in Canada.
The agenda and program delivery has been developed to ensure specific learning and training opportunities in order that you can leave with concrete ideas that will translate into results for your organization, to better serve the needs or your organization, members and our Ukrainian community in Canada.
- All Ukrainian community organizations
- Attendees may be directors, board members, committee members or anyone involved in the activities of our community organizations
- Any community organization that would like to increase organizational efficiency, capacity and membership
- UCC Member Organizations
- Ukrainian Event and Festival Presenters
SPECIAL STUDENT RATE OFFER
$50.00 Registration Fee
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| 8:00pm |
Opening Reception |
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| 8:00am |
Coffee and Registration |
| 8:30am |
Welcome & Overview of UCC Policy & Priorities
Paul Grod, UCC President |
| 9:00-10:15am |
Governance and Highly Effective Boards
Organizations continually evolve and need to meet current expectations around governance, transparency and effective operations. This workshop will provide you with a reminder of the basics in best governance practices. It will also clearly outline and provide you with a guidebook about the role of your Board, role of your Executive, how to engage your members, develop clear board and staff roles and responsibilities, board member recruitment, training and orientation and much more. |
| 10:15-10:30am |
Break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Fundraising That Works!
To ensure short-term organizational viability and future sustainability, organizations must have diversified sources of income. This workshop will focus on fundraising activities that work in our community as well as review effective fundraising
practices that will maximize your efforts in today’s economy. |
| 11:45-12:45pm |
Lunch |
| 12:45-2:00pm |
Influencing Decision Makers
In order to attain our goals, secure funding and have our community voice heard on issues of importance, our community regularly needs to connect, engage and influence key decision makers, particularly elected government representatives. How can we best do that? This workshop will focus on how to expand our
community’s political influence to help move our priorities forward and provide you with ideas and practices to implement in your community. Learn the most important activities in working with decision makers for the community. |
| 2:00-2:15pm |
Break |
| 2:15-4:15pm |
Creating the Vision: Meeting the Needs of Your Future Members
Building for the future of our community and our organizations will be the key focus of this workshop. How can we attract young professionals into our community organizations? What are their needs? How can we more effectively engage new Ukrainian immigrants into our structured community? Why do we think they
should become involved in our organizations? Is what we do today relevant to potential new members? Do we accurately anticipate what will attract new members to our organizations?
Another key question will be about how our organizations operate today. We will look at what services your organization provides, what makes you different from other organizations and what will attract new members to your organization.
Do we need to change our focus to become a more services oriented community?
You will leave this session with a plan of action of what you are going to do to engage your future members. You will have a stronger organization when more members start joining because you know what will draw them to you. |
| 4:15-4:30pm |
Concluding Remarks and Evaluation |
| **All sessions will conclude with a segment for participants to share your best practices within each topic area. This is an opportunity for us to learn from one another and gather new ideas to take back to our communities. We encourage all participants to come prepared to share their experiences, materials, ideas and successes with others. |
| 6:00pm |
National Leaders Gala
Banquet and Award Presentations to Leaders in the Ukrainian Canadian Community |
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