The Collaborative Leadership video is paired with CP+S On Location video spotlight Changing Course, a short film by Melissa Gomez that profiles the issues, challenges and successes of a unique community collaboration that have taken place in the city of Toronto: the Toronto Sports Leadership Program. Told through the voices of five partners in the program, the film shows how the Toronto community came together and provided an answer to 2005’s “Summer of the Gun”.

If you haven’t already watched the first series of videos from our conference series featuring the thought-provoking Sir Ken Robinson, David Buckland, Richard Florida, Charles Landry, the Open Access Science Panel with Aled Edwards, Pekka Sinervo, Ilse Treunicht, or the Interventionist Media Panel with Katerina Cizek, Gerry Flahive and Dr. Katherine Rouleau, you can check them out on Artscape’s Youtube Channel or click directly on their names above.

Collaborative Leadership

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"Collaborative Leadership"

Video Resources:
One Drop
Cirque du Soleil  and www.twitter.com/CirqueClub 
PROGRIS
Centre for Social Innovation: and www.twitter.com/csiTO 
Tamarack: An Institute for Community Engagement
Demos: The Collaborative State
Book: Collaborative Leadership: How to succeed in an interconnected world 
Book: The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Lessons for the Learning Organization
Book: Collaborative Leadership: How Citizens and Civic Leaders Can Make a Difference
Madeleine Carter on Collaborative Leadership, writing for the Center for Effective Public Policy  

Changing Course
Directed by Melissa Gomez, on location in Toronto, Ontario

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"Changing Course"

In 2005 Toronto experienced a spike in gun violence that shocked the country. To reverse this trend a group of non-profits, school boards and the municipal government stopped competing and started acting as a team. The result was the Toronto Sports Leadership Program which offers youth paths to employment, self-respect and motivation through sports. Changing Course highlights two stories, the collaboration between organizations that created the TSLP, and the co-operation among the youth engaged in it. 

Video Resources:
The Toronto Sports Leadership Program  
United Way  
Toronto Catholic School Board 
Toronto Community Foundation 
YMCA       
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation  
Life Saving Society 
Toronto District School Board (TDSB)   
Melissa Gomez, Documentary Filmmaker  

Upcoming Related Events in Toronto
Toronto Mayoral Debate on Real Estate Issues 
The Urban Land Institute Toronto is hosting the highly anticipated Mayoral Debate: Real Estate Issues on Monday, June 21.The debate will be moderated by John Tory, former Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Newstalk 1010 host and Chair of the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

Panelists will identify their priorities for Toronto if elected Mayor followed by a debate specifically focused on real estate issues facing the next term of City Council. Panelists include: Rob Ford, Giorgio Mammoliti, Joe Pantalone, Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman and Sarah Thompson.

Date: Monday, June 21, 2010
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 am 
Place: The Toronto Board of Trade, First Canadian Place, 4th Floor, Toronto
Cost: $45 ULI members, $30 public (members/non-members), $70 non-members, $30 Young Leaders (ULI members under 35), $20 students/non-members

To register or for more information visit www.toronto.uli.org or call 1-800-321-5011.