The Coalition has Six Areas of Focus for Action coming from the oneNS Commission Report:
Work Plan
12/17/2014
1. Renewing Education and Our Future
4. Rebuilding our Trading Economy: Going global
2. Our Universities and NSCC: Co-op, apprenticeship and other opportunities
5. Responsible Development of Our Natural Resource Advantages
3. Energizing Entrepreneurship & Innovation
6. Adapting to a Changing Demographic: Retaining youth, attracting and retaining immigrants, enhancing workforce participation and aging well
September 2014
October 2014
November 2014
November 2014
January 2015
February 2015
Monthly Theme
Startup
Ecosystems
& Driving Youth
Entrepreneurship
Global Competitiveness &
Exports
Youth & International Student Youth & Social
Retention
Entrepreneurship
Immigration, Welcoming
Communities & Tourism
Workforce Participation
Coalition Meeting Date
September 16th
October 2nd
November 14th
November 27th
January 13th
February 10th
Nova Scotia’s Global
Competitiveness and Trade
Youth retention &
international student
attraction and retention
Me to We – The
Power of Youth and
Social Enterprises
Attracting and retaining interprovincial Assessing and removing
and international immigration
barriers to workforce
participation
A Plan for Reaching Our Tourism
Goals
Opening up our workforces to
greater participation
Marc Kielburger,
Co-Founder
Me To We
Gerry Mills, Director of Operations,
TBD
Immigrant Services Association of NS
Ben Cowan-Dewar, Chair, Nova
Scotia Tourism Agency
Michele McKenzie, Former CEO
Canadian Tourism Commission
Joella Foulds oneNS Coalition
Immigration & Retention Action Team
Objective 1:
SETTING A COMMON AGENDA
Define and assess our OneNS population, economic,
and attitude challenges and set common agenda for
concerted action across sectors, defining roles and
responsibilities for actions along the way.
Youth out migration
/fostering startups with PSE’s
and the private sector
Speaker(s):
Subject matter experts will present directly to the
Coalition at each meeting.
Where appropriate, presentations will be recorded and
available to the public via the One NS Website
Thomas Storring, Department Kevin Lynch, BMO
of Finance
Former Clerk of the Privy
Council
Iain Klugman, CEO,
Communitech
Fred Morley,
Greater Halifax Partnership
Objective 2:
TAKING ACTION NOW
Following each meeting, the Coalition will publicly
commit to undertaking 1-2 tangible actions toward
achieving the One NS Report goals and game changers
Action Items:
see Appendix A
-Collective Impact
-Start-up Ecosystems
-Brilliant Labs
-Volta
-Ocean Sciences
Action Items:
see Appendix A
-cluster development
-coordinated economic plan
-Enhance private sector
leadership
Action Items:
see Appendix A
-Strengthen connections
between social enterprise
and private sector
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Objective 3:
DEVELOP 10-YEAR PLAN
Provide oversight and input into 10 year Comprehensive
Development Plan (“CDP”)
Update Coalition on research
and planning underway
Research and Analysis
Research and Analysis
Coalition review and
feedback on 10 year
framework
Coalition review preliminary draft
White Paper on CDP
Public consultation review
White Paper, Draft
Development Plan, and
approve and commence
consultation
Objective 4:
MODEL BEHAVIOUR
Collaborate to foster and encourage concerted broad
based action to achieve the 19 Goals of the OneNS
Commission Report
Coalition Team Photo
Attitude and Economic
Growth: A Breakfast
Conversation with Frank
McKenna, Deputy Chair, TD
Bank
Social Event:
oneNS Holiday
Reception “Winter
Warm-up”
Social Event:
oneNS “Winter Warm-up”
hosted by Cape Breton Partnership
Business Community
Leadership Event: “Push &
Pull” of One NS
Objective 5:
COLLECT, CONNECT AND AMPLIFY: TRACKING
Action ItemS TO ACTION
• Communications and Outreach
• With Engage NS - Communicate with and engage
Nova Scotians in setting the path for Nova Scotia’s 10
year comprehensive development plan
-Coalition outreach
-Mobilize action and tracking
Action Items to
-One NS Inforgraphic
-Monthly newsletters
updating One NS activity
Launch Social Media Events
[guest tweeters]
Introduction to Collective
Impact
Nova Scotia in a 2 Speed
World
One NS Comms plan
GHP Connector Program
example
Saeed El-Darahali
oneNS Coalition Immigration
& Retention Action Team
International Students
“Convene and Focus”
Session
David Upton
Common Good
Solutions
Social Enterprise
“Convene and Focus”
Session
Commence consultation and
additional engagement for 10
year CDP
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
Energizing
Entrepreneurship
Cradle to Career:
from Early Childhood
Education to the
Workforce
Getting More Out of
Our Universities &
Colleges: R&D,
Innovation Labs &
Entrepreneurship
March 10th
April 7th
May 19th
Energizing
entrepreneurship
Education and our
workforce: “cradle to
careers” and “lost
sheep”
University R&D
business
Presentation: HBR
“How to Start an
Entrepreneurial
Revolution”
Presentation:
Innovation
Presentation: [TBD]
June 2015
Green Economy:
Sustainable Natural
Resource
Development
June 16th
Green economy
perspectives and
our plan for
economic growth
July 2015
August 2015
September 2015
Growth Clusters,
Rural Communities
& Economic Growth
Our Natural
Resources
Advantage
TBD
TBD
TBD
Economic growth
around clusters
Natural resources
development and
rural industries /
effective
development of our
natural resource
economy
Setting the path for Phase III
Presentation: [TBD]
Presentation:
[TBD]
[Other topic(s) as
determined by
Coalition]
October ~November 2015
Planning for Next Phase
Rural communities
and global supply
chains
COALITION OUTPUT
• Coalition as Collective Action Leader
• Defining the challenge and confirm common
understanding of the problems to be addressed
• Consensus on common agenda
• Shared vision for change
• Setting clear and measurable objectives
• Strategic action framework (e.g. Collective
Impact) to achieve goals
• Feed into Comprehensive Development Plan
(“CDP”)
Presentation: [TBD]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Action Items:
see Appendix A
-Determine the
Legislative changes
required
-Form Recos to
legislature to
introduce in Fall
Session
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Assess and
incorporate feedback
on White Paper
(CDP)
Review draft of CDP
OneNS Public
Session(s): Sharing
the Whitepaper Draft
and One Year
Update
TBD
TBD
•
Review & approval of final
CDP
Approve CDP
Getting More Out of
Universities “Convene
and Focus” session
• Coalition as Board overseeing development of
White Paper and CDP
• Input, review and approval of CDP
• Public Review & Feedback
• Coalition as symbol/ catalyst for action
• Modeling leadership behavior on multi-sector
collaboration
Multicultural Event
Entrepreneurship
Cradle to Career
Engagement and
“Convene and Focus” “Convene and Focus” Consultant on CDP
session
session
oneNS Secretariat
Coalition leading by examples with Action Items
to action
Green & Natural
Resource Economy
“Convene and
Focus” session
Economic Growth
Clusters “Convene
and Focus” session
Phase Two Shift to Phase III
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•
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•
Coalition as engagement /consultation partner
Ongoing engagement and input
Mobilizing and encouraging broad-based action
Communicating, collecting and amplifying
Appendix A: TAKING ACTION NOW
Following each meeting, the Coalition will publicly commit to undertaking 1-2 tangible actions toward achieving the One NS Report goals and game changers
Month + Theme
Action Items
September 2014:
Startup Ecosystems & Driving
Youth
Entrepreneurship
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October 2014
Global Competitiveness and
Exports
• Identify our comparative strengths and support cluster development of ‘champion’ industries and sectors to effectively compete on a global scale.
• Facilitate the development a clear and coordinated economic plan that addresses leading economic sectors and includes the roles of universities, community colleges, industries, and governments
• Ask the private sector to enhance leadership, serve as champions, become more vocal, provide mentorship, as well as support the 4Front Atlantic recommendations
November 2014
Youth and International Student
Retention
• Support and capitalize on the Social Enterprise sector’s ability to engage, train, retrain and attract youth, increase workforce participation of visible minorities and workers of all abilities, and to create
economic growth across the province.
• Bring Social Enterprises and the Private Sector together to determine how social enterprise support can be incorporated into private sector models.
December 2014
Youth & Social Entrepreneurship
January 2015
Immigration, Welcoming
Communities & Tourism
February 2015
Workforce Participation
March 2015
Energizing Entrepreneurship
April 2015
Cradle to Career:
from Early Childhood Education
to the Workforce
May 2015
Getting More Out of Our
Universities & Colleges: R&D,
Innovation Labs &
Entrepreneurship
June2015
Green Economy: Sustainable
Natural Resource Development
July 2015
Growth Clusters, Rural
Communities
& Economic Growth
August 2015
Our Natural Resources
Advantage
Use collective impact as a foundational model for the work of the Coalition and the change that must take place in Nova Scotia.
Foster start-up ecosystems through effective interventions that begin early and continue throughout the lifecycle of a developing entrepreneur.
Work to bring Brilliant Labs to Nova Scotia to encourage early development of entrepreneurial skills.
Endorse Volta expansion to incubate more start-ups.
Encourage multi-sector mobilization to create an Ocean Sciences Innovation Centre in Dartmouth at the former Coast Guard Base.