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Fielding Graduate University Announces the Seventh Year of the Award-Winning Graduate Level Certificate Program in DIALOGUE, DELIBERATION, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

It’s 2010. Your community has never faced more pressing issues, and it has never had a better opportunity to solve them. Whether you’re struggling with empty storefronts, changing demographics, or the loss of local character, your challenges matter. Whether you have years of experience or you’re just starting out, your ideas matter. And whether you’re working in a mountain town in the Rockies, a booming suburb in the heartland, or a rural village in the Northeast, your community matters.

A training opportunity for professionals and volunteers working with people impacted by psychological trauma.

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Toronto Region Group, invites you to a breakfast session on Friday morning, June 11, 2010, entitled "The Future of Public Sector Governance: The Impact of Social Media". The expert panel will explore whether there are grounds to predict the erosion of traditional models of corporate governance in the public sector with the emergence of social media technologies and the second wave of e-government.

Why do some groups of people manage to solve complex problems, while others stumble or fall? We invite you to explore this question through a dialogue with Adam Kahane, internationally acclaimed facilitator and author.

PrivacyCampTO is an unconference about digital privacy in the age of social medial ubiquity. The goal of PrivacyCampTO are is to look at privacy issues relating to everyday users and everyday situations. In other words, privacy for everyone. Many of these areas have not yet been explored, such as how gender and privacy relate, or how children understand and negotiate digital privacy. PrivacyCampTO is the first PrivacyCamp in Canada, following the growing number of PrivacyCamps in the US (first started by PrivacyCampDC last year).

Join Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) for a conversation about how to improve the evaluation of civic engagement efforts. In response to the call for better tools for assessing progress and framing the impact of civic engagement, the Building Movement Project (BMP) has partnered with groups like the Innovation Network to collect these new tools and uncover a useful framework for how groups can think differently about how to approach civic engagement evaluation.

An Unconference for Uncommon Leaders.

In October 2010, 250 young Canadians will attend a once-in-a-lifetime learning event that will turn their good intentions into concrete actions to protect our most precious natural resource: water.

It’s called the Canadian Water Innovation Lab 2010, a natural extension of the Waterlution mission. We have already hosted more than 30 workshops in nine provinces for over 650 youth and 100 scientists, business, Aboriginal, and community leaders, and policy makers — exceptional people looking for creative solutions to our complex water resource management problems.

Register Today for June 16 CCPH Conference Call, "CES4Health.info: Publishing Diverse Products of Community-Engaged Scholarship." The call, from 3:30-5 pm ET, is free for those dialing in from Canada and the US. On the call, you'll learn about www.ces4health.info, an exciting new outlet for publishing and disseminating training curricula, educational videos, policy reports, online toolkits and other diverse products of community-engaged scholarship!

Advancing a Canadian Knowledge Commons. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) has joined with Community-Based Research Canada, the Canadian Alliance of Community Service Learning and Social
Innovation Generation at the University of Waterloo to co-sponsor this free national summit on the role of knowledge in society. For more information, visit http://knowledgecommons.ning.com/