Past Community Partner Programs & Events
Throughout the year, the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) hosts events and shares resources and opportunities that align with the priorities and interests of our community partners.
See below for some of our 2022-2025 events. To stay up to date on upcoming events, you can subscribe to our community partner newsletter.
Unlocking Potential: Practical Approaches to Systems Change from Where You Stand
April 8, 2025
Systems change work isn’t just for policymakers. This interactive virtual workshop is designed for service providers on the frontlines looking to drive impactful, system-level transformation. Take a step back to reflect on your day-to-day challenges through a wider lens, and leave empowered with tools to make a bigger difference from where you stand as frontline workers.
Facilitator: Catherine Dyer (she/her), CFRE, MBA (qualifying), is a community builder and systems change leader with over two decades of experience in youth mental health, child welfare, and community development. A former Crown Ward, Catherine has firsthand experience navigating complex systems.
Taking Care of Your Career: Reflect and Plan to Sustain Your Work for Change
February 13, 2025
This interactive and participatory workshop offers a space to pause for frontline change-makers in the nonprofit sector. Reflect on your social change roles, clarify your core values, and plan for your needs and next steps in your career and social change work. Walk away with practical new tools for reflection and self-care, and bring more sustenance and greater alignment across your professional and personal paths.
Facilitator: Rima Athar (she/her) is a facilitator, educator and consultant. She has over 16 years of experience supporting community groups, social organizations and philanthropic institutions in their collaborative efforts to bolster civic engagement, social justice and human rights around the world.
Decent Volunteering: Towards Decolonial and Anti-Racist Volunteering
April 18, 2024
Over the last few years, volunteering rates have been declining in Ontario and organizations are reporting sustained shortages of volunteer labour. While efforts to recruit and retain volunteers are ongoing, this session asked community organizations to consider how they can advance decent volunteering and introduce guidelines for fostering decolonial approaches to volunteer recruitment and screening. Attendees were asked to consider how systems of volunteer engagement exclude, harm, or marginalize some community members and imagine new ways of fostering communities of belonging in volunteer programs.
Facilitated by Kasandra James, Director of Programs at Volunteer Toronto.
Unpacking Ableism 101: A Workshop for Community Organizations
February 24, 2023
If you are currently working with a community, or a grassroots, nonprofit, or public sector organization, join us to learn more about ableism, ways it can appear within an organization, and how to address it.
Presented in partnership with the Community Resistance Intimacy Project (CRIP Collective) and the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP).
Pandemic Safety for Community Organizations: Lessons from the Past, Looking to the Future
Friday, October 14, 2022
10:00 – 11:30 am ET (online)
The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invited grassroots, nonprofit, and public sector organizations to an online panel discussion focused on short-term and long-term strategies that can be used to address COVID-19 health and safety. The panel featured University of Toronto faculty working in the fields of medicine, epidemiology, and engineering who have been vocal public advocates for health and safety during the pandemic.
Watch the recording of Pandemic Safety for Community Organizations.