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Want to make a difference but don’t know how? Year three of this Vancouver lecture series features four leaders who are using creative thinking and 
courage to create positive change in the world. Explore the tactics, creativity, pitfalls, and challenges of what it takes to create change. In a potent mix of storytelling and skill sharing, these leaders will reveal their personal struggles and the leadership lessons that have made all the difference. Come away with information, insights and inspiration to make change in your community and beyond.
Brought to you by Hollyhock and UBC Continuing Studies. Generously sponsored by Vancity. 
LUNCHTIME (12:00 – 1:30 pm) Organic coffee and tea provided.
Per lecture: $15/$12 for non-profits, seniors & students; 10% discount for signing up for more than one lecture.
TO REGISTER CALL UBC CONTINUING STUDIES: 604.822.1444
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Building a Conscientious Marketplace: How Harry Potter helped to secure the World's Largest Conservation Agreement.
Oct 13, 2010
Nicole Rycroft is the Founder and Executive Director of Canopy and a recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship and a Canadian Environment Award Gold Medal. Named one of Canada's 50 Most Influential People in Graphic Communication for the past four years, she has also accepted numerous awards on behalf of Canopy including the Benny Award for Outstanding Corporate Campaigning. www.canopyplanet.org
Are You Web Ready? Key Learnings in Working Online for Change.
Nov 9, 2010
The internet is a powerful network that's creating a fundamental shift in the way organizations work, connect, engage and effect change. What qualities and skills does your organization need to make a bigger impact within this landscape? How can you achieve your mission by catalyzing the necessary shift towards openness, collaboration and innovation? Learn the frontline and behind-the-scenes strategies of highly successful organizations and people-powered campaigns. This is an open forum where you will be exposed to the newest models and strategies for 
world-changing groups. Get 'web ready' with two veteran leaders.
Lauren Bacon is a partner at Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. Lauren’s work can be seen amongst some of the premier websites in the non-profit, government, and progressive business communities. www.raisedeyebrow.com. Jason Mogus is the CEO of Communicopia, a digital agency that helps local and global social change organizations become more open, collaborative, and citizen-driven by deeply embracing the web.
Reinventing Social Action: Is Collaborating with Opponents Selling Out or Smart Strategy? 
Nov 23, 2010
There are new demanding problems that call into question traditional approaches to social action. Significant strife has arisen in recent years within the BC activist communities over collaboration with other parties such as industry, First Nations and governments. Is collaboration needed to solve intractable social and environmental intractable problems? Should it be an essential part of campaigning? Join a discussion around the forms and applications of collaboration and consider what a new understanding of collaboration could mean for a reinvented activism.
Ross McMillan is the President and CEO of Tides Canada. Ross was a principal architect of the Great Bear Rainforest project – one of the most significant conservation programs in North American history. Ross has extensive experience managing organizations and coalitions to achieve success in complex circumstances. www.tidescanada.org
2009 LECTURE SERIES
September 17, 2009
David is President and CEO of Spud!, the Vancouver based organic delivery service which has grown to be the largest in North America. David talks about the intersection of social entrepreneurship and sustainability and lessons from his work furthering food sustainability and conscious consumerism. www.spud.ca
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Leveraging Sustainability: Creating tipping points for sustainability in the marketplace. 
October 1, 2009
Coro is the Principal of Strandberg Consulting, an associate with Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, and a member of UBC President’s Advisory Council - Sustainability External Advisory Board. Learn the vital role that leadership from boards, purchasers, human resource professionals, trade association executives and investors play in scaling up sustainable business in Canada and beyond. www.corostrandberg.com
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Beyond just survival … it is still about progress. 
October 22, 2009
Faye Wightman is President and CEO of Vancouver Foundation, Canada’s largest community foundation. Faye will share lessons and insights on the type of leadership needed to ensure our non-profits and our communities not only survive this economic collapse, but continue to move forward. www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca
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Healing the Hungry Ghost: Addiction, Suffering and Possibility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. 
November 19, 2009
Gabor is a physician, counsellor, seminar leader and bestselling author. For over ten years Gabor has worked as staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and also at Insite, North America's only supervised injection facility. Moving far beyond traditional treatments, Gabor proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. www.drgabormate.com
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2008 Lecture Series
Give me Shelter- Bringing homeless voices out front. 
David Eby is a lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society and will share the tactics and stories that have led both to victory and defeat in the struggle to protect low-income housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He is a regular contributor to the website MatthewGood.org and maintains his own blog at davideby.blogspot.com
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Oct 15, 2008
Tzeporah Berman is Program Director and Co-Founder of Forest Ethics, and a leader in a number of key BC campaigns including the Great Bear Rainforest and Clayoquot Sound. Hear about the effective and revolutionary anti-brand that got a global giant, Limited Brands, owner of Victoria's Secret, to go green. www.forestethics.org
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Nov 26, 2008
As the former CEO of Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada’s most popular outdoor gear retailer, and now as CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation, Peter Robinson has often played the role of uniting environmental perspectives with business, government and the public interests. Learn about what’s effective in getting business and government to take heed of environmental priorities. www.davidsuzuki.org
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Building Power without Domination. 
Dec 10, 2008
Judy Rebick is the Sam Grindin Chair for Social Justice & Democracy at Ryerson University. Judy will talk about new approaches to social and political change that build on the knowledge and practices of the women’s movement but are going well beyond it. Judy will share her insights and experience with power at a personal, social, and political level and how they can interact towards a politics of transformation.
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Brought to you by Hollyhock, UBC Continuing Studies, and generously sponsored by Vancity.
