This is my video site for sharing work that I'm doing with social benefit organizations.I am also using Blip TV to talk about using social media for personal development or for increasing your "reach" when working with others or as a creative vehicle for community building.
Beka Economopoulos, created and ran the Online Organizing department at Greenpeace USA. She is also the co-founder and director of Not An Alternative, a volunteer-run non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism, technology and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history.In this presentation, she describes how she developed an social media strategy with Greenpeace that took on Steve Jobes and the Apple co...
This is the service portion of the Celebration of Life event held for Maggie Bell.
David Collins from the Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force was a guest speaker at our first Awareness Building Event hosted by the York Region Harm Reduction Coalition. His overview of the harm reduction movement in Toronto was very helpful for the senior managers, community leaders and Board members in attendance.
This is the second segment of Jenny's presentation.
I give an overview of Streetjibe assisted by 2 of our founding members and a youth who participated in two of our workshops.
Here is the 3rd installment of Jenny's presentation.
Get Honest - Our Youth Matter workshop is now over. To keep the message and conversation going, I'm pleased to share the presentation made by Jennie Vengris from the Hamilton Social Planning & Research Council.The workshop organizers are encouraging community groups to continue the work of the Streetjibe Project. As past Program Manager of the project, I am very interested in seeing how the community uses the learning gained from our capacity building project (staff, community and organization).
The cast members of Recovery speak about their participation in the play and how beneficial this experience was to their own recovery.
This play is entirely created, directed and acted by mental health survivors. Support for producing Recovery was provided by the Krasman Centre, a mental health drop in and support centre located in Richmond Hill Ontario and the Richmond Hill United Church.