We would like to welcome you to our Conference on Non-Violence beginning Friday night, Oct. 14th, featuring Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of world's leading authors and thinkers on Non-Violent activism. In addition, we are proud to welcome one of the organizers of "Occupy Toronto" to the event to speak about the action starting the next day.

We are also proud to announce the Toronto Premiere of the award-winning documentary "How To Start a Revolution" on October 15th at 7:30pm. Director and producer Ruaridh Arrow will be attendance and will participate in a Q&A after the film. For more information please visit the film's website here.

WW 2011 is a global convergence to advance women's equality through research, exchange, leadership, and action.

Expected to draw some 2,000 participants from around the world, WW 2011 is a unique global event that will enhance women's leadership skills and organizational capacity, support the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and foster research and action networks on women's issues.

The first Women's Worlds event was a modest gathering of academics in 1981 in Israel to discuss the advent of Women's Studies and forge networks on feminist research. Today, the congress is a large event attracting researchers, activists, policy-makers, advocates, allies, and more.

Visit the website for more details: www.womensworlds.ca

North America's secular Jews will gather in Toronto from May 27-30, 2011 to examine the theme of "Jewish Traditions Today - Continuity in Change" through more than 40 workshops and social and cultural activities.

This 41st Annual Conference of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO) takes place at Humber College in Toronto. Its hosts are the Toronto-based CSJO affiliate groups, United Jewish People's Order, Canada (UJPO) and the Morris Winchevsky School. A significant part of the conference is organized by teens and young adults to address the theme's issues that concern them.

Women Entrepreneurs for Social Change will be an intensive, interactive Vancouver based gathering that focuses on ways to lead a successful, socially conscious enterprise. This unique forum offers women from small and large organizations the chance to explore their business challenges in an intimate and inspiring environment drawing on the successful Social Venture Institute (SVI) model. SVI is a practical, problem-solving, alternative "business school" that creates a confidential, supportive and inspiring setting.

We'll dive deep into the heart of business, connecting and learning with other women leading mission-driven businesses and social enterprises.

A hands-on conference working directly with data from the APCOL surveys and
case studies. We'll talk about how we can make good use of this research in
our recruiting, organizing and capacity-building work and look for answers
to questions such as:

- Why do some people get involved in neighbourhood groups working for
change, and others don't?

- What do people learn through their involvement?

- Why do some decide to stay and others leave?