Program: This is a full-time program with varied activities, workshops, and projects which focus on personal growth and skills building, teamwork, and community involvement. (please see flyer or ask what type of personal growth, skills building, teamwork and community involvement will be targeted before you apply….and then decide if this will be suitable or not suitable for your lifestyle) Target: Youth 17-24 years...

Register for Maytree’s Fall 2010 Program Reimagining Your Organization with Nick Saul, Executive Director, The Stop Community Food Centre Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Nick Saul, Executive Director of The Stop Community Food Centre, will share Five Good Ideas gleaned from his work in transforming a small, local food bank into a thriving community food centre: a place where people come together...

Civic Engagement Workshop for Youth Tuesday July 20, 2010 6:00pm to 9:00pm Civic engagement can be defined as acting on a sense of responsibility to one?s community. Through civic engagement, individuals – as citizens of their communities, their nations, and the world ? are empowered as agents of social positive change. Civic engagement involves being informed on social issues; participating actively in public life...

This workshop will provide you with the basics for running an event, from concept, budgeting, and partnerships to execution and promotion. You will learn valuable skills that will allow you to produce small scale to large scale events. You will be given some tools to go home with and get started on your own events right away! Facilitators: Andrea Zammit, Rated Inc Nayani Thiyagarajah, Manifesto Norm Alconcel, YOUnited...

We wanted to make the start to your week a bit brighter by announcing a 50% discount for our upcoming Build Your Business Plan series, which begins on Wednesday. The discount is on par with YSEC members, and applies to all members of your organization. This 4-part series will focus on how to build a business plan (in principle and practice), and will actually give you space to draft one with the help of a team from George...

Seed to Table is doing and fast and furious outreach campaign for our program launch next month. We’re looking for youth ages 14-17 from Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park and surrounding East Scarborough neighbourhoods to do hands on cooking and gardening skills development, as well as explore food issues in the neighbourhood and city using film, photography and other creative arts. Check out the attached doc for detailed...

Free Youth Workshop. Please share! Grant-writing 101 Wednesday May 26 , 2010 , 6pm to 8:30pm Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St. W.), Council Chambers’ Members Lounge This interactive session will explore the basics of preparing a grant application. It will breakdown the main components of an application including the proposal, work plan and budget; and provide tips for creating a clear, concise application – one...

We are getting ready our next training session. It is starting on Tuesday May 25. This will be the first session in our new space. We are not moving far. Our new location is right next door to Phoenix. We will have the same address. The move next door allows us the opportunity to revise the start time for the program. We will now being starting at 8:30 (instead of 7:30). The program still runs Monday to Thursday. Please...

Focus On Youth 2010 On Monday May 10th, 2010, the Toronto Catholic District School Board in partner-ship with Leadership and Cooperative Education will be accepting application for summer employment opportunities, as part of this year’s Focus on Youth Program which runs from July 5th – August 13th, 2010. TCDSB students aged 16 to18 are encouraged to apply. To receive your application, applicants MUST attend one...

I’m not going to respond to the workshop questions in order – just in the order I feel motivated to answer them in. And speaking of motivation the question I want to respond to first is “How do you motivate people without monetary incentives?” with this video. It’s Daniel Pink, author of ‘A Whole New Mind’ and ‘Drive’. Here he is at TED talking about intrinsic motivation: