Free, on Zoom Webinar
New Majority is Canada's non-partisan ground and canvassing engine, focusing on strengthening democracy by leading young people to the polls during election and ensuring their voices are heard by politicians outside of election season.
What makes New Majority unique is their focus on grounded, face-to-face engagement with young people under 30 inside but particularly outside of climate circles, listening to their perspectives and issues that matter to them. Young people consistently identify climate, mental health and affordability as their top concerns, and in order to identify and engage new audiences, all three issue responses must intersect to drive action at scale - which is what New Majority does best.
New Majority's theory of change is young people are deeply engaged and willing to take action, but need a fun, welcoming and targeted approach (that does not rely on digital algorithms!) to organize and mobilize. Their focus is local, youth-led, and face-to-face. As a result, New Majority has had direct conversations with well over 500,000 since their founding in 2019.
Leading up to the biggest election year yet, New Majority will share its strategic approach for identifying unengaged youth, and how to build a scalable relational organizing model that has direct, measurable outcomes.
You'll hear what the plans are to substantially increase youth voter turnout during the upcoming federal election, and how they'll do it. After sharing their learnings and approaches for building power within and surrounding the climate sector, New Majority's Executive Director will be available for a lively Q & A.
During a wildly busy political season, join this webinar to hear why it's New Majority's position that there is no climate policy without democracy.
The Climate Solutions Innovation Forum is a multi-year program that highlights newer innovative environmental nonprofits who share the story to inspire emerging leaders and/or to expose seasoned leaders to new ways of affecting change and reaching new audiences. CSIF shines a light on less traditional policy-oriented NGOs, youth led organizations as well as recently emerged culturally-focused ENGOs mostly at the fringes of the mainstream.
We thank the Ivey Foundation for their funding support of this series.
Our Presenter
Amanda Munday is the Executive Director of New Majority, a national non-profit organization focused on youth voter mobilization. She was previously the founder of The Workaround, a 13,000 sq. ft coworking and childcare centre cited as one of the most innovative social impact businesses in Toronto. Instrumental in Canada’s national childcare program, Amanda is also open and active about her mental health through her bestselling memoir, Day Nine. Amanda’s work is regularly featured in The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, The Toronto Star, Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, CBC, and more.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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