Member Event: Finance, Farms, and Food Forum
Posted: March 18, 2013
Categories: Events / GoodFoodBites
The Rural Ontario Institute presents Finance, Farms, and Food, a forum aimed at exploring ways of organizing and raising funds for sustainable food projects. The event takes place this coming Thursday, March 21, in Brantford. The forum will cover the principles and concepts behind social enterprise and finance and will also feature presentations from leaders and innovators behind current working sustainable food projects, including:
- John Richmond, West End Food Coop
- Graham and Emma Cubitt, founding members of Mustard Seed Coop Hamilton
- Bob Barnett, Exec. Director, Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy and Ella Haley, Langford Conservancy
Finance, Farms and Food
Exploring new ways to organize and raise money for sustainable food system projects
PROGRAM (Draft)
9:30am – Registration/coffee‐tea
10:00am – Welcome – Rural Ontario Institute and Langford Conservancy
10:30am – Key Concepts/Principles – Presentations What is social enterprise and social finance… demystifying the lingo
- Jennifer Girvin – Rural Social Enterprise Constellation
- Joanna Reynolds – MaRS Social Impact Investing
- Hannah Renglich – Local Food Coop Network, Ontario Natural Foods
- Shona Fulcher – Community Bonds, Centre for Social Innovation
- Sally Miller – FarmStart research project on models for financing access to farmland
12:30 LUNCH – Tabletop displays, networking, update on SustainOntario May conference
1:30pm – Project examples … innovations in the field…
- John Richmond, West End Food Coop
- Graham and Emma Cubitt, founding members of Mustard Seed Coop Hamilton
- Bob Barnett, Exec. Director, Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy and Ella Haley, Langford Conservancy
BREAK
3:00pm Small table group discussions…
4:00pm Wrap Up
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May I suggest strongly that your group or groups seriously think of supporting CACL as we support everything you stand for and intend to become a governing party in Canada to make sure that we have access to high quality local grown food and that Canadians have access to food of their choice with only quality and purity a government concern. This includes raw food including milk and the end of forced medication as in fluoride, chlorine, toxic vaccination and the like.. This is a small world and CACL is growing daily. There is no cost to associate membership and the numbers send fear into the ivory towers of corrupt government. Regards in Health Royce Hamer Leader CACL