Change Agent Series with Geoff Cape

Sign up today to hear Geoff Cape,  Executive Director of Evergreen, Ashoka Fellow and award-winning Canadian Social Entrepreneur.  Geoff will talk about Evergreen's expansion into social enterprise with the new Brick Works development, a centre for innovation and fresh thinking that will inspire future generations to rethink their place in the world. 
A networking reception with hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will follow Geoff's talk.

 

Agenda:

5:30 pm - Registration

6:00 pm - Event Begins

7:00 pm - Networking Reception

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Geoff's Biography:

Geoff is a co-founder of Evergreen and has been its executive director since their inception in 1991. Selected in 1999 as one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” by The Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine, Geoff has also been honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of “Canadians who have made outstanding and exemplary contributions to their communities or to Canada as a whole.” In 2005, Cape was inducted into an International Fellowship by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. In 2007, Cape won the prestigious Schwab Foundation’s “Canadian Social Entrepreneur of the Year” Award, Canada’s top social entrepreneurship honour. Cape is currently a board member of Parc Downsview Park, is on the Steering Committee of Lake Ontario Park, was founding Chair of the Sustainability Institute, and is a past member of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation Selection Committee.

Since 1991, Evergreen has been engaging Canadians in creating and sustaining dynamic outdoor spaces—in schools, communities and homes.  By deepening the connection between people and nature, and empowering Canadians to take a hands-on approach to their urban environments, Evergreen is improving the health of our cities—now and for the future.

Through Evergreen Common Grounds and Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds, they are a leading national funder and facilitator of local, sustainable greening projects in schoolyards, parks and communities across Canada.  Evergreen Brick Works is a unique environmental community centre and green cities centre for urban sustainability currently under construction in the heart of Toronto’s Don River Valley.  This spectacular natural and industrial heritage site and its ongoing engaging programming from Farmers’ Markets to seminars and plantings, is already inspiring and educating the community to embrace a sustainable future.