Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo

Festival of Neighbourhoods 2008 Program Coordinator

The Kitchener Festival of Neighbourhoods Organising Committee is seeking an action oriented program coordinator for the 2008 Festival. The successful candidate has proven administrative skills, is committed to values of community and community connectedness, understands the local community and its various facets, has highly developed people skills and can take up the reigns to keep a successful initiative going and growing.

Festival of Neighbourhoods: Call for Proposals

The Festival of Neighbourhoods Organising Committee is seeking proposals from qualified practitioners to facilitate a project to enable this initiative to meet challenges that the Festival has identified. These challenges have arisen from the growing realisation by the project sponsors and participating partners that the Festival is clearly an innovative nascent model for facilitating community capacity building. This model must be explored and captured for the benefit of the initiative, its founding community of Kitchener, and neighbouring communities.

Focus on Inclusion

The Social Planning Council in partnership with Waterloo Mayor Brenda Halloran invites you to participate in a unique community forum, Focus on Inclusion.

Urban Poverty Project 2007

Canadian Council on Social Development: "The Urban Poverty Project 2007 is a series of comprehensive analytical reports, resource tools, and data profiles which take a broad look at different aspects of urban poverty in Canada, using detailed data from Statistics Canada Censuses and other sources."

22 October 2007

Stand Up Against Poverty

Social Planning Network of Ontario: "On October 17, 2007 - The United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty - join millions around the world as they STAND UP and SPEAK OUT to Make Poverty History. STAND UP is an innovative and exciting challenge issued by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the United Nations Millennium Campaign."

17 October 2007

Women and Poverty

Kitchener-Centre All Candidates Meeting

Disabilities and Poverty

Kitchener-Waterloo Riding All Candidates Meeting

Poverty Reduction Strategy

The Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO) today launched its cross-community campaign to make poverty reduction a priority election issue across Ontario. Read more

12 September 2007

Employment Posting: Administrative Assistant

The Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo is seeking an energetic and highly organized person to join our administrative team to provide overall agency administrative support.

Employment Posting: ConnectKW Project Workers

The Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo is seeking three (3) project workers to assist with achieving the objectives of ConnectKW, a network of public internet access sites across K-W. These positions are made available through Government of Canada Community Access Program funding to provide career related experience to eligible candidates 15-30 years of age currently taking post secondary courses, having completed at least one post secondary course, or intending to pursue full time post secondary education in 2007. These positions are suitable for co-op placements.

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