Beyond Miles Partnership - 7 Years Strong!
On May 17, 2013 SWB's partnership with Aeroplan & the Beyond Miles Program turns 7 years old. Please help celebrate this partnership by following @BeyondMiles on twitter and liking Aeroplan on facebook.
DOC Accelerator 2013 Applications Now Open
Doc Accelerator is an innovative program designed to help 50 aspiring documentary
filmmakers aged 18+ take their careers to the next level. Get exclusive access to Hot Docs, Canada's premiere international documentary festival, and take part in a powerful workshop series from some of the industry's best and brightest. Plus it's FREE! Apply today! DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: The deadline for applications is Wednesday March 13, 2013 at 4:00pm. All applications must be received by this date. Brought to in a partnership by Hot Docs, Manifesto, SWB, Jumpwire Media and Media Intelligence, with support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. 
SWB 3.0 Launching end of 2012SWB has been in deep reflection of our work over the past decade. We're revisiting foundational moments, challenges, successes and of course, key LEARNINGS. Stay tuned for the launch of SWB 3.0 at our Annual General Meeting!
SAFE SPACES from Jackie Mak on Vimeo. Safe Spaces Exchange - Kenya to Toronto
From May 21st to June 4th Schools Without Borders had the privilege of hosting 5 participants from our Safe Spaces program in Toronto. These wonderful women had the opportunity to fly from Kenya to Toronto to learn and gain knowledge about how programs and partnerships work on this side of the world!
Here are some highlights from there trip: These young women had the chance to visit Montreal. While in Montreal they met with the University of McGill, went on a tour of the Cirque du Soleil facility, connected with the YWCA and visited the Aeroplan Canada Head office. In Toronto they received a tour of the Air Canada Centre where they had the chance to play basketball on the Raptors court. A Zumba fundraiser was held at Lula Lounge where over 80 participants came out and over 2 thousand dollars were raised to support their local programming. The girls connected with a variety of different organizations and partners during their stay including: University of Toronto, Aeroplan, The Stephen Lewis Foundation, ACAF, Boss Magazine, Cisco, City of Toronto and many others! What an amazing opportunity and thank you to everyone for their gracious support to make this exchange possible! Donate your Aeroplan Miles today!
Make Your Miles Matter. from Tiffany Hsiung on Vimeo. Safe Spaces: "We are the Change!"How do we identify and recognize change? We feel it within ourselves. It churns up emotion. It makes our hearts race. It challenges us to question everything we thought we knew and forces us to imagine something different. We exercise our power when we begin to turn these new ideas into reality. We’re genetically geared to do it. It’s a part of our survival and our evolution, so why deny it? We’re only human.
This week I had the privilege of participating in a change process, which began by connecting people who were once worlds apart: a talented management team from Aeroplan and a group of fierce young women from the Eastland slums of Nairobi. Aeroplan’s Beyond Miles Program has the profound vision to bring such brilliant minds together to deepen the relationships between their company and the communities that they support. We took this opportunity to redefine “global citizenship”. Read More 
Ground Floors Report Published
This report starts by providing a clear picture of what organizations, groups and young leaders have identified as key learning’s necessary for supporting Youth Organizing.
"SWB has done an excellent job at providing us with a deep and thoughtful understanding of how our sector can work together to strengthen youth organizing. The report offers us an innovative and emerging solution to meet the complex challenges of sustaining and supporting youth work." - Arti Freeman, Ontario Trillium Foundation Read more... Platform.swb.ca
To learn more about our projects, groups and partners please go to: www.platform.swb.ca
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Inspiring Links
TED TALK - Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
Stanford Social Innovation Review - Collective Impact
Large scale social change requires broad cross-sectoral coordination, yet the social sector remains focused o the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Harvard Business Review - The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community.
For more links click here
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
Stanford Social Innovation Review - Collective Impact
Large scale social change requires broad cross-sectoral coordination, yet the social sector remains focused o the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Harvard Business Review - The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community.
For more links click here
