Family Resource Fair on Saturday June 16th, from 1 - 4 p.m. at KCL Hall (Satoo Park), 445 Knottwood Road W.

Our first PARENTS AS CHAMPIONS GET-TOGETHER will take place on Tuesday, May 29th from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. at KCL Hall

HIGHLIGHTS:

• 100th Anniversary Project to be voted on at AGM
• Solar Energy Projects
  
• Supplier Marketplace
• Leagues Alive Conference & Trade Show
  
• Board Development                     & much more

The new EFCL Board Development Director, Andrea Sage, hit the ground running with her first major project, scheduling workshops for the “Leagues Alive 2012 Conference and Trade Show”, set for Saturday, November 3, 2012 at the Mayfield Inn. This year’s Trade Show will be taking on an exciting twist with a whole new slate of educational programming which will offer something of interest for everyone on Community League Boards. To date, confirmed workshops will include ...

Free workshop on Motorized traffic and Health: Interventions to mitigate its impacts, June 11. Click here to learn more: http://www.ncchpp.ca/176/presentations.ccnpps?id_article=740

Board Leadership 2012 offers a variety of sessions as well as a great networking opportunity. The event will be held at The Robbins Health Learning Centre on MacEwan University’s City Centre Campus. For more information have a look at the agenda. Registration deadline is Friday March 9, 2012.

If you missed the Winter Event Workshop on January 28, you can still read the event planning material and winter activity suggestions online in our resource guide or download the pdf.  Click through for lots of good sound advice.

In the last few weeks, over a third of the mature neighbourhood community leagues had representatives meet with the Community Sustainability Task Force to explain the challenges facing their neighbourhoods and to suggest solutions.  

Tim Haak will help you understand how to ensure that your organization is ready to raise funds, select the right prospects, and the right methods for raising those funds.

Are you planning a fundraising event or campaign?
Would you like to learn more about the Canada Revenue Agency’s Guidance on Fundraising by Registered Charities?

If you’re a new board member wanting to learn more about your role, or an experienced board member wishing to enhance your skills and work effectively as a team member, this workshop is for you! 

New projects in Edmonton will help keep at-risk youth off the streets by using schools as community hubs to increase accessibility of services and providing ways for youth to participate in sport and creative opportunities. In addition, a new restorative justice project will help at-risk youth to take responsibility for their actions and learn to make positive contributions to their communities.

Public interest in climate change and energy, the economy and the environment have prompted considerable innovation and enterprise for commercializing clean technologies and sustainable communities. (whether the results of Copenhagen will contribute to fusing or fragmenting, frustrating or financing, the various initiatives, we’ll know better in the coming weeks). The Alberta Council of Technologies and the AB Chapter— Canadian Green Building Council, propose the following forums for the purpose of helping define the status of clean technologies in Alberta and advancing their commercialization.

Host a Jim Dier's Community Engagement Workshop in your community.  Find out how . . .

In memory of our past board member Edo Nyland, the EFCL Board has voted to approve $2000 worth of scholarships to pay half of the tuition for community league members to become certified through the Planning Academy workshops. 

The City of Edmonton once again invites residents and neighbourhood leaders to its Planning Academy – a series of courses in land use planning, transportation planning and urban design.

As a step in this direction, the City of Edmonton is launching a new "learn and serve" program for Edmontonians who are interested in learning more about ecology and naturalization in our city, and being involved in the stewardship of local natural areas.