Renewal Network Upcoming Events

Natural Products Expo West

Anna Strom — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:05:02 -0800

Start: Mar 5 2009 - 12:00am

End: Mar 8 2009 - 1:00am

The Natural Products Expo is the world's largest natural and organic products trade show with over 50,000 attendees. The show features 3000 exhibits with tons of new products to sample and the opportunity to explore new ideas that can help your business grow. Speakers include Woody Tasch, Hollyhock regular Andrew Weil, and many more. Attend this show to:

See new products and developments
Find new companies to do business with
Keep up-to-date on industry issues and trends
Increase your industry awareness
Network with colleagues and vendors
See specific companies or products
Get technical information
Attend seminars and workshops
Place orders

Click here and register today.

CVCA Networking Reception

Anna Strom — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:37:02 -0800

Start: Mar 10 2009 - 5:00pm

End: Mar 10 2009 - 7:00pm

The CVCA - Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association - represents the majority of private equity companies in Canada, with over 1500 members. CVCA members have over $75 billion in capital under management, in three distinct market segments:

Buyout is characterized chiefly by risk investment in established private or publicly listed firms that are undergoing a fundamental change in operations or strategy. Buyout funds are often called such, even if their mandates are not exclusively buy out related.
Mezzanine is characterized chiefly by use of Subordinated Debt, or preferred stock with an equity kicker, to invest largely in the same type of companies and deals as buyout funds.
Venture Capital is characterized generally by investment in early stage companies, mostly in technology businesses.

The CVCA is a leading source for advocacy, networking, information and professional development for venture capital and private equity professionals

Please join CVCA's President, Executive Director and other members' of western Canada's venture capital & private equity community at this networking reception.

Speak out for Change - Vancouver

Anna Strom — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:01:09 -0800

Start: Apr 3 2009 - 12:00am

Build your communication skills to catalyze personal and planetary change. Presented by Gail Larsen and sponsored by Hollyhock Leadership Institute. A condensed course with master teacher Gail Larsen that provides a solid foundation on which to build. Whether you want to enhance your non-profit, business or social enterprise impact, or discover kindred spirits who resonate with your ideas, this work will serve you well. Become more effective with audiences whose worldviews and values vary from your own and learn ten essential principles for speaking out for change, whether you are speaking to one person or to thousands.

Gail's classes are lively, engaging, supportive, and fun, inviting you to call forth your best as you stretch to the size of your calling.

Discover and appreciate your individual communications strengths and the power of your story, then practice the three speaking skills that count
Build bridges rather than walls to open new avenues of understanding and potential support
Make the human connection that sets the stage for your message to be more readily heard
Catalyze change that is ready to happen

If you've considered joining Gail's Transformational Speaking class September 6-9 at Hollyhock, this introduction to her work will prepare you for more hands-on experience and practice in developing your skills. Hollyhock's spectacular setting affords the opportunity to synthesize what you're learning as you work with Gail on a more personal level.

Gail Larsen is the author of Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story, and the founder of Real Speaking, the premier presentations coaching program for people of purpose & catalysts of change. A U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year award and former executive vice president of the worldwide National Speakers Association. Learn more at www.realspeaking.net.

"Perfect for anyone who cares deeply about their mission and wants to express it with depth, clarity and passion." - Nina Utne, Utne Reader
"Powerful guidance in using your voice for change." - Marc Lesser, ZBA Associates
"Remarkably powerful - transformative and practical." - Nina Simons, Bioneers

Fri, April 3rd: 6:30pm-9:30pm and Sat, April 4th: 9:30am-4:30pm. Location to be announced upon registration. Tuition: $195 plus GST. Register for two or more Vancouver programs and receive a 10% discount on each one. See Hollyhock Registration for more details.

SVN Member Gathering

Tara Smedbol — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:39:50 -0800

Start: Apr 23 2009 - 3:37pm

End: Apr 26 2009 - 3:37pm

For the past 21 years, the members of the Social Venture Network (SVN) have been at the vanguard of leading a historic change in our planet's history, forging a new way of doing business that attends not just to profits but also to justice, ecology, and the human spirit. They've supported and inspired each other and thousands of others through a collaborative network of socially responsible leaders. SVN member gather every year for the SVN 2009 Annual Member Gathering to recommit and re-inspire each other. This is a member only event.

Women's Funding Network

Anna Strom — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:44:50 -0800

Start: Apr 29 2009 - 8:00am

End: May 2 2009 - 3:30pm

The Women's Funding Network is 135 organizations that fund women's solutions across the globe. They give women the money and tools to transform their ideas into lasting change -- in every critical area from combating poverty to achieving advances in healthcare, education and human rights. With $450 million in collective working assets, The Women's Funding Network funds $50 million per year in global investment in women and girls through tens of thousands of donors, change-makers and thought leaders - all with a shared passion for bringing women's ideas to the fore of global problem-solving.

Join The Women's Funding Network for their 25th annual conference, Investing in Women: Worldwide Return, held in Atlanta from April 29 through May 2, 2009.

EPIC: The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo

Anna Strom — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:45:12 -0800

Start: May 8 2009 - 12:00am

End: May 10 2009 - 12:00am

EPIC: The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo is Western Canada's largest green consumer tradeshow and eco-marketplace. Established in 2007, EPIC is produced by GLOBE Events, a division of the GLOBE Foundation. Visit EPIC to learn about environmentally-friendly products and services, as well as the companies providing them. Join this three day celebration of smart living; surround yourself with insightful people, innovative businesses and inspiring ideas. At EPIC, you'll "Shop and TH!NK."

Stacy Malkan, award-winning author of "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry" will present at EPIC 2009!

Media That Matters 2009

Tara Smedbol — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:25:03 -0800

Start: May 13 2009 - 3:00pm

End: May 17 2009 - 3:00pm

Take your strategic media projects to new levels in an oasis of creativity and professional support. Media that Matters, program of Hollyhock Centre, sponsored by Hollyhock Leadership Initiative, is an invitational conference and retreat for all disciplines of conventional and independent media. Media justice, activism, and the power of telling new stories intersect here, in an atmosphere that engenders new alliances, strategies, ideas, and friendships. For a list of the confirmed speakers, click here. By invitation or application only.

SCI 2009

Tara Smedbol — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:34:17 -0800

Start: May 27 2009 - 12:00pm

End: May 31 2009 - 12:00pm

Sharpen your skills, deepen your impact, generate new possibilities! A unique skills building program, the Social Change Institute (SCI) brings together seasoned and emerging leaders with leading thinkers and trainers from the worlds of social and environmental change-making. Designed to strengthen the capacity of social justice and environmental sectors to advance their agendas and foster the ability to collaborate on issues of shared concern, SCI offers workshops, creative practices, dialogue circles, and community-building events over a 5 day period.

Viewing change-making as an integrated process, SCI will spark insight, deepen understanding and provide tools for advancing change on the interpersonal, community and systemic levels.

Tuition: $495 CDN (meals and accommodation extra), 4 nights

Interested participants - please contact Rhian Walker at Rhian@hollyhockleadership.org or 604-669-4802 ext 262 for an application form.

The Hollyhock Leadership Institute is dedicated to empowering current and emerging leaders to create high impact social and environmental change.

Play BIG at Hollyhock 2009

Anna Strom — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:40:07 -0700

Start: Sep 2 2009 - 4:00pm

End: Sep 6 2009 - 12:00pm

Play BIG, an invitational think tank for people with large capital reserves, was created in recognition of the unique role individual wealth holders can play to support social and environmental innovation. Play BIG participants gather as peers and colleagues to help advance their ability to effect change with their resources and to support each other in their work.

Guest Speaker Abigail Disney

As an heir to the Disney family fortune, Abby has become increasingly public in her encouragement of fellow wealth-holders to put their money to work in service of their values. Founder and the President of the Daphne Foundation, Abby is also a filmmaker whose documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell tells the story of the bold and successful peacemaking women of Liberia.

“…We have got to start a quiet revolution...”
–Abigail Disney
"Play BIG is a great initiative. The collective Renewal story-- and how it all fits together--gives even those of us who have been at this quite a while a real inspiration to do more. "
–Bill Young, Social Capital Partners

Play BIG welcomes newcomers by invitation as well as alumni from previous gatherings. Play BIG is designed for people with discretionary capital of 15 million dollars or more who are interested in becoming more strategic and proactive with their wealth.

For more information or to save your space, please call Marian Moore 612 -377-2701 or email marian@playbig.ca.

Social Venture Institute (SVI) Hollyhock 2009

Anna Strom — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:43:09 -0700

Start: Sep 9 2009 - 4:00pm

End: Sep 13 2009 - 12:00pm

Join business leaders and social entrepreneurs at the Social Venture Institute (SVI) for an intensive, interactive inquiry into how to face the day-to-day challenges of running a socially conscious enterprise, September 9-13, 2009 at Hollyhock Centre, Cortes Island, BC.

True Confessions Speakers are Sounds True's Founder Tami Simon and President and CEO Grant Couch, and Vancity's CEO Tamara Vrooman.