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Kari Raymer Bishop
Claire Francis
Tim Des Islets
Karen Wettlaufer
Kim and Steve Prokopowich
Steve Howes and Brian Jenkins
Mark Staplehurst
Jayne Gervais & Kelly Warne
Ida Adamowicz
Amandah Wood & Matt Quinn
Anne & Rick Vernon
Adele Service
Julie Buckrell
Holly O
Backyard Beekeeping
Claire She Goes Podcast
Noisemaker Management
Found Studio
Studio50
Town of Paris Poster (1989)
The English Language
Working Hands, Volume I.
Day in a Life Series
Ways We Work
Rooms & Blooms
My Journey Home
My art
Acrylic painting
19 SPEAKERS
2 MINUTES EACH

CREATIVE WARM-UP
You’re Awesome
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The Evolution of the Drumset
CHRIS BODEGRAVEN
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CHRISBODE@ROGERS.COM

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CHRISBODE@ROGERS.COM

My Musical Journey & Vision
ALISON JEAN ADAM
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Sharing a Love of Reading
SUSAN GIBSON
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WWW.AYEAROFBOOKSBLOG.COM

Andrew Carnegie Dictum
To spend the ﬁrst third of one’s life
getting all the education one can.
To spend the next third making
all the money one can.
To spend the last third giving it
all away for worthwhile causes.

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Franklin Street Little Free Library
& A Year of Books Blog
WWW.AYEAROFBOOKSBLOG.COM

Creative Ways to Protect Brant County's
Farmland and Natural Heritage
ELLA HALEY  
RICHARD TUNSTALL
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LCONSERV.ORG

Protecting Brant County’s Watershed,
Farmland & Natural Heritage  
Richard Tunstall and Ella Haley
Langford Conservancy
ella@lconserv.org
Lconserv.org, 519-647-0307

Two greatest barriers
to new farmers are lack of
access to land and capital.
1 National Young Farmers Coalition Report, 2015

The Ontario Greenbelt – 10 Year Review

No Farmland =
No Local Farmers =
No Local Food

Sprawl – Brant/Brantford Boundary Deal

Brant County: 1980 Protected Agricultural Ribbon

1) If the Minister Approves the Brant/
Brantford Boundary Deal – Appeal
2) Grow the Greenbelt
3) Conservation Easements
4) Land Trust buys land
Creative Solutions:

1) Challenge the Brant/Brantford  
Boundary Deal

2) Create a Grand River Watershed Greenbelt

3) Protect Land with Conservation Easements

4) Purchase by Land Trust and Lease to New Farmers

SOLUTION
Preserve farmland and provide
new small-scale organic farmers
access to affordable farmland

Our Aim:
• To initially sell community bonds to raise
funds to buy a farm
• Organic farmers will be able to hold
long-term leases on protected land
Community Bond Campaign

Timeline & Milestones
Sept 2016
March 2017
✓ Complete Fundraising
✓ Recruit New Organic Farmers
✓ Make the offer on the Farm
✓ Complete Renovation for 5 Housing Units
✓ Complete building the pond for irrigation
✓ Review the applications for New Organic Farmers
✓ First round of New Farmers start farming (no housing req)
Sept 2017 ✓ Second round of New organic farmers move-in & start farming
✓ Ultimate vision: knowledge sharing to scale the project elsewhere

Contact ella@lconserv.org
or richard@lconserv.org
519-647-0307
lconserv.org
For More Information

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Langford Conservancy
LCONSERV.ORG

Literacy Matters
LIZ GOSSE
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WWW.BRANTSKILLSCENTRE.ORG

9 Essential Skills
These nine essential skills
provide the foundation for
success in work, learning,
and life.
1. Reading
2. Document Use
3. Numeracy
4. Writing
5. Oral Communication

6. Working with Others
7. Thinking
8. Computer Use
9. Continuous Learning

In 2012, the Programme for the
International Assessment of Adult
Competency discovered that
47% of adults in Ontario do not
have the literacy and essential
skills for learning, work, and life.

What does this mean to our people
and our community?

Parents play a vital role in their
children’s learning. The higher
the level of a parent’s education
and skill level, the higher the
likelihood that the child will
succeed in school.

• People with low literacy skills are more
likely to experience unemployment and
are twice as likely to be unemployed
for six months or more.

• Low literacy skills can represent a risk
to workplace health and safety.

Based on the 2011  
National Household Survey,
24% of people in
Brantford do not have
their high school diploma.

• Young people are dropping out before
completing their high school education.

• Approximately 29% of Grand Erie
students who wrote the grade 10 literacy
test in the 2014-2015 school year were
unsuccessful.

• Money /Poverty

• Job

• Health issues

• Disability

• Lack of childcare

• Transportation

• Lack of personal motivation

• Home situation

• Ontario will experience a skill shortage in the near
future. Improving literacy rates will be critical to
our province’s future economic health

• It is estimated that by 2031, Ontario will need 77%
of its workforce to have post-secondary credential

Only 21% of people with low
literacy skills try to access further
education or training programs.

Close to 50% of adults with the
lowest levels of literacy live in
low income households.

Raising the literacy levels
of people is one of the
most important ways to
encourage lifelong learning
in our community.

• Provide people with the opportunity  
to learn while understanding their
personal barriers to learning and
education

• Provide a positive, open-minded learning
environment

• Have an understanding of past learning
experiences and how it may affect their
learning now and in the future
• Ensure people have their basic
needs met by referring people to
programs and services

• Understand that people of all walks
of life can experience challenges
with literacy

• Break down the barriers
We need to…

Provide a positive,
open-minded learning
environment

Increased literacy skills are strongly
linked to economic growth and
prosperity. A 1% increase in literacy
skills would lead to an increase of
$18.5 billion per year in Canada’s GDP.
Literacy and the Economy

• Having the essential skills to
obtain and maintain employment

• Having the digital literacy skills
needed for the 21st century
• Upgrading your math skills to start
an apprenticeship

• Access to education and training

• Having the ability to succeed in
completing high school credit
courses
Literacy means…

• Writing your GED

• Being prepared to enter a post-secondary
school program

• Being able to read to your children or
grandchildren

• Financial independence
Literacy means…

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Brant Skills Centre
WWW.BRANTSKILLSCENTRE.ORG

The Legacy of Glenhyrst
ANA OLSON
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WWW.GLENHYRST.CA/

+
What is Glenhyrst?
■ 1914
■ 1922
■ 1956

+
What is Glenhyrst?
■ 16 acres
■ 3 buildings
■ Banks of the
Grand

+
We are ART!
■ 6 exhibits per yr
■ 197 artists in 2015

+
We Sell and Rent Art!
■ 250 works
■ over 60 artists

+
We are History!
■ 650 works

+
We are History!
■ Andy Warhol,
■ Group of Seven
■ Robert Whale
■ Painter’s Eleven

+One of the most important things we do.
■ 3500 kids
■ 112 schools

+One of the most important things we do.
■ 500 campers

+
Inspire Creativity!
■ 3 Seasonal Sessions
■ painting, drawing, mosaics,
stained glass, calligraphy,
photography, cartooning……

+
All about community.
■ 23 events in 2015
■ 17 were free

+
Building community in
new ways.
■ Brantford Lights at
Glenhyrst

+
■ 470 members

+
■ 114 volunteers

+Partnerships with Community
■ Active Brant
■ Brantford Broderers
■ Brant Museum and Archives
■ Brant Museum & Gallery Association
■ Brant Catholic District School Board
■ Brant Literacy Foundation
■ Brant Studio Tour
■ Brantford Cultural Advisory Committee
■ Brantford Food Bank
■ Brantford SPCA
■ Brantford Visual Arts Guild
■ Brantford Potter’s Guild
■ Crawford Collective
■ Guitar Society of Brant
■ Grant Erie District School Board
■ Grand River Chorus
■ Grand River Grannies
■  Great War Centenary Association
■ Ichthys Theatre
■ Roots of Empathy
■ Salvation Army
■ Shellard’s Lane Association
■ The Carnival Museum
■ Tourism Brantford
■ Woodland Cultural Centre

+Corporate/Granting Partnerships

+
What is Glenhyrst?
■ It’s you!
■ 33,445

+
Our Goal?
To be a leader and
cultural ambassador
in our community.

+
Thank you for your support and
for helping to bring art, beauty
and culture to our children and
to our Community!

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WWW.GLENHYRST.CA/

Brant Death Racers
DAN NAMISNIAK
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@BRANTDEATHRACER
#RUNBRANT

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Brant Death Racers Running Club
@BRANTDEATHRACER
#RUNBRANT

Every Dollar Counts
MARILYN SEWELL
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BCHSYSFOUNDATION.ORG

! Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) encompasses
programs and services offered at the Brantford General
Hospital and the Willett in Paris
! Tonight I’m talking about the Foundation – the fundraising
partner for the system
! I’m not talking about the future of the Willett in Paris – that’s a
good discussion for another time
Brant Community Healthcare System
Together we are transforming healthcare in our community. Every Dollar Counts!

Independent organization dedicated to:
1. Raising awareness of the gap in funding
2. Communicating the needs in the system
3. Engaging the community and raising money
4. Managing donor dollars with accountability and responsibility
What is the BCHS Foundation?

! Joined the board as a volunteer in 2010
! Appointed to the Executive in 2012
! Served as Chair from January 2015 to June 2016
! Currently Past Chair
! Also cross appointment to the BCHS Hospital Board as non-
voting member
What’s my connection?

I was searching for:
1. Something just for me with no connections to anyone else
2. A way to use my board governance skills
3. A brand new area of learning
What’s in it for me?

1. Volunteers who care about healthcare in our community
2. People with skills in business, legal, government all with
community connections
3. Diverse representation of the community
4. Gap matrix system for recruitment
5. Six year term
Our Volunteer Board

! The Foundation provides money to:
1. purchase medical equipment and capital expenditures that are
not paid for by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care,
2. provide essential resources to maintain the exceptional level of
compassionate patient care,
3. invest in new and innovative technology, and
4. handle emergency repairs
Government spending isn’t enough!

Just over $21.7million raised
in the last 12 years
How has the community responded?

! Wheelchairs and critical care beds
! MRI and CT Scanner,
! Portable ultrasound and other ER
equipment,
! Diagnostic imaging equipment,
Where does the $$$$ go?
! Lab equipment,
! Music therapy program,
! Refreshing the cancer clinic and
paediatric unit, and
! More………………..
Short answer – for everything in every place

1. Appropriate recognition and thanks
2. Stewardship reports
3. Newsletters
4. Updated website
5. Annual reports
6. Ability to direct gifts - restricted funds or priority needs
7. Wise investments
Accountability to our donors

1. Small team of dedicated fundraising professionals
2. 3rd party partners
3. Dedicated volunteers
4. Anyone with a good idea
5. We all can through social media – Foundation is connected!
Who does the work?

1. Signature events
2. Annual programs and events
3. Major gifts
4. Planned giving
5. Monthly donations
6. 3rd party programs
7. Wise investments
How do we raise funds?

1. Annual Spring Gala
Signature Events raise over $100,000
In common –
! Huge volunteer
commitment
! Community connections
2. BCG Logistic Group Charity Golf
Tournament
2016 – Bright White Bling to support the MRI
2015 – Helping Hands for Critical Care
2014 – Cancer Care Close to Home

! Smile Cookie Campaign with Tim Horton's
! 1st Annual Ladies Night Out – March 2016
! 1st Annual Men’s Night Out – November 10, 2016 (Paris)
! 12 days of Giving Campaign – December 2016
! 12th Annual Firefighters Golf Tournament every September
! The inaugural Supporting Patient Care – One Step at a Time Run/
Walk to benefit the ER – October 22, 2016
! Memorial Gifts and Grateful Patients
Annual programs and events

! Don’t just happen
! Corporate donations, for example
◦ SC Johnson digital mammography and ultrasound imaging
! Personal donations and estates
! Connections to the cause - i.e. Family Birthing Center
Major gifts

! Intentional conversations
! Bequest in a will
! Insurance policy
Planned Giving

! Automatic
! Any amount of donation
! Quick
! Convenient
! Consistent for Foundation budgeting
Monthly donations

We love these partnerships!
1. Closet Door Clothing Store
2. Kate Broddick Team
3. Brantford Comedy Festival
4. Weigh your Scrap and Give Back
5. Kettlecorn popcorn, Easel program
6. Lemonade stands to dress down days, and more…….
3rd Party Program!

! The need for funds never stops
! Technology changes so quickly
! Lots of great causes to support
! Understanding why we give – what motivates a donor?
◦ People just don’t write cheques, we need to continually engage donors
What are the Challenges?

! Healthcare affects everyone in our community
! Hospitals will continue to need donor dollars
! The future of the delivery of our healthcare will define our
future needs
! Endless opportunities to connect with our growing
community, and
! Everyone can participate because every dollar counts!
Looking ahead

! Insight into the world of health care
! Friendships and connections outside my normal circle
! Experience as Board Chair for a very important cause
! A desire to continue to give of my time and resources
I’ve gained….

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BCHS Foundation
BCHSYSFOUNDATION.ORG

My Seaway Story
MARY COPE
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CHERRYLANE@HOTMAIL.CA

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CHERRYLANE@HOTMAIL.CA

The First Five Years Lasts a Lifetime
ANN TAYLOR
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“You’re never
too old, too wacky, too wild,
to pick up a book and
read to a child.”
-Dr. Seuss

Paris – We Are Not Alone
JOHN BELL
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There are 53 active cities/towns named Paris

Paris
Tennessee
Paris
Tennessee

Paris
Paris
Kiribati
(deceased)

Chris Bodegraven
Alison Jean Adam
Susan Gibson
Ella Haley & Richard Tunstall
Mary Cope
Ann Taylor
John Bell
My Seaway Story
The First Five Years Lasts a Lifetime
We Are Not Alone
The Evolution of the Drumset
My Musical Journey & Vision
Sharing a Love of Reading
Creative Ways to Protect Brant County’s
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Farmland and Natural Heritage
Literacy Matters
The Legacy of Glenhyrst
Brant Death Racers
Every dollar Counts
Liz Gosse
Ana Olson
Dan Namisniak
Marilyn Sewell
Thank you!

Mike Boudreau
Stuart & Jennifer Budd
Marc Laferriere
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Thank you!

Thank you!
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WWW.MILLARDS.COM

YOU
Thank you!
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