Guest Speaker
Thank you to Alasoba Kelsy-Braide and Michele Newton for joining us last week to share more about Making Change SC. For anyone who has follow up questions, please see Alasoba and Michele’s contact information below.
Alasoba Kelsy-Braide: lala@makingchangesc.com
Michele Newton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelenewton/
Making Change SC’s Website: www.makingchangesc.com
New Job Board
The BTI relentlessly strives to create access to career opportunities for our Talent and greater community. On Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, BTI began issuing a new job board via Substack that moving forward, will be deployed bi-weekly on Wednesdays. If your organization has a job opportunity they’d like to share with our community, please feel free to reach out to Lushwana Anderson-Stewart for more details.
If you’d like to receive BTI’s newsletter and job board publications, please subscribe here: https://blacktalentinitiative.substack.com/subscribe.
Holacracy
Building a structure that better represents the BTI community of today, BTI will be implementing a new holacracy model later this month.
At a previous Friday meetup, Rosanne Leung introduced the holacracy to our community and shared BTI’s organizational structure evolution to date. If you missed this, would like to learn more about this exciting change or would like to sign up to join a volunteer team, please read more here.
BTI Community Insights Survey
We are currently working on refreshing how we tell our BTI story in some of our corporate and community partner presentations, and no one tells it better than ALL OF YOU. We’ve put together a very brief survey with a few questions to gather insights from our community. Please take a moment to provide your thoughts by filling out the survey here. It will truly be a big help in inspiring our future BTI partners!
BTI Equality Partners Job Opportunities
With the assistance of BTI, Mill St. Brewery is looking for a Black Marketing co-op student to step into a cross-functional role on the marketing team, where they will assist in the Mill St. and Brickworks Ciderhouse E-commerce Home Delivery program, support in content planning and creation, photoshoots, and work with the Brand Manager, Community Manager and Associate Digital Manager on developing and measuring organic equity campaigns.
The ideal candidate is a student in marketing or business-related co-op program and is based in Toronto. Although this role is remote, you will have the opportunity to attend photoshoots located in Toronto. For more information regarding this exciting role, such as start dates, pay, hours and roles and responsibilities, check out the job description here.
You can apply directly through emailing your resume to brendan.fontyn@labatt.com using the subject line: “[NAME]: Marketing Co-op Application”. All applications close on August 27th, 2021.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Community Programming Coordinator, Nikiesha Lawson.
Upcoming Guest Speakers
August 27th: Brandon Hay – The Black Daddies Club
Brandon Hay is a father of three boys, and the founder of a Toronto based grassroots social movement called the Black Daddies Club. He works as the Community Development Officer for the City of Toronto and manages several portfolios which includes: the Community Healing Project, Support for Parents and Caregivers Program and Workforce Development. Brandon is a strong believer in equitable and innovative approaches to his community work; he works with an intersectional lens around issues of marginalization. Most importantly, he brings 14 years of mobilizing, community-based research, event planning, and leadership experience to this role. Please join us at this Friday’s Meetup, where he will share his journey!
September 3rd: No Meetup
September 10th: Guest Speaker TBD
September 17th: Jonah Chininga – MICC Financial
Have a great week!