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The Ripple Effect Campaign
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Every day we make decisions and choices, big and small, which make ‘ripples’.
At Women’s Centre of York Region, we witness the impact of those ripples, both positive and negative, on our clients and our community. We know when we help a woman regain self-esteem and control of her life, the impact goes far beyond her. Her children and family feel the positive ripple and in turn make their own ripples – her son does better in school with a full stomach and an eager mind. Her employer gets her focused effort and her community benefits from her renewed participation. Our ability to start that process begins with support and donations from individuals and businesses in York Region. In 2009, the state of the economy created a significant ripple for us – on average, demand for our programs grew by some 46% in less than 9 months. This caused us to consider not only how can we manage our operations but how can we contribute to the broader community at a time when many businesses and individuals are also feeling the impact. And thus The Ripple Effect campaign was born. Through this campaign we want to increase awareness of the work we do and opportunities for businesses and individuals to get involved. But we want to do more. We want to find people and companies that share our belief that by being more conscious of the impact of our actions on the environment, on people and on the community, we can ‘influence posi+ive’ .We want to find ways to support and help the companies that support and help us. We want to make business, individuals and the community at large part of our Ripple Effect – becoming partners in making York Region an even better place to work, live and play. The Ripple Effect ForumA big ripple we’re creating is The Ripple Effect Forum for business. The event is on Wednesday November 25, 6-10pm at the Richmond Hill Theatre for the Performing Arts. The programme includes:
Learn how to “do good” ethically, strategically, with the right partners, to create real sustainability. TicketsTickets are $100, with a $50 charitable receipt Forum Agenda
Forum SpeakersKeynote Craig Kielburger, Founder of Free the Children and Co-founder of Me to Wewww.metowe.com Host/Facilitator Debora Kelly, Editor-in-Chief, York Region Media Groupwww.yrmg.com Panel Gerry Doedens, President, Filebank Professional Serviceswww.filebank.ca Marg Hachey, Executive Vice President, Duocom Canada Inc. Gordon Hicks, President, BLJC Cathy Nesbitt, Founder, Cathy’s Crawly Composters Send out speaker Jody Steinhauer, Chief Visionary Officer, The Bargains Group The Ripple Effect ProjectWe are capturing Ripple Effect stories from the community. We will be compiling stories - of small or big ripples - in the programme for The Ripple Effect Forum as well as posting these on our website. If you have an example of The Ripple Effect in action, please share them with us by emailing to ripple@wcyr.ca.Ripples in the PressWomen's Centre Launches 'Ripple Effect'www.yorkregion.com/News/Regional%20News/article/97922
When we take small, meaningful and conscious actions, the ripple effect can be seen and felt throughout a community.
Logo designed by James Prior and Helen Bacik
   
  
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