The Coalition has Six Areas of Focus for Action coming from the oneNS Commission Report:
Work Plan
03/27/2015
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 Retention
Youth & Social
Entrepreneurship
Immigration, Welcoming Communities &
Tourism
Workforce Participation
Coalition Meeting Date
September 16th
October 2nd
November 14th
November 27th
January 13th
February 10th
Me to We – The Power
of Youth and Social
Enterprises
Attracting and retaining interprovincial
and international immigration
Assessing and removing
barriers to workforce
participation
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
Nova Scotia’s Global
Competitiveness and
Trade
Youth retention &
international student
attraction and retention
Introduction to Collective Impact
Nova Scotia in a 2
Speed World
GHP Connector Program
example
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 of
Finance
Marc Kielburger,
Co-Founder
Me To We
Iain Klugman, CEO, Communitech
Kevin Lynch, BMO
Fred Morley,
Former Clerk of the Privy Greater Halifax Partnership
Council
Saeed El-Darahali
oneNS Coalition
Immigration & Retention
Action Team
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:
Action Items:
see App. A for more
see App. A for more
-Support & capitalize on -Tourism Proposal Endorsed
the Social Enterprise
sector’s ability to
engage, train, retrain and
attract youth
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
Framework Development
Framework Development
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
-Coalition outreach
Launch Social Media
-Mobilize action and tracking
Events [guest tweeters]
Action Items to
-One NS Inforgraphic
One NS Comms plan
-Monthly newsletters updating One
NS activity
A Plan for Reaching Our Tourism Goals
International Students
“Convene and Focus”
Session
Opening up our workforces to
greater participation
Gerry Mills, Director of Operations,
Immigrant Services Association of NS
Ben Cowan-Dewar, Chair, Nova Scotia
Tourism Agency
David Upton
Michele McKenzie, Former CEO
Common Good Solutions Canadian Tourism Commission
Joella Foulds oneNS Coalition
Immigration & Retention Action Team
Social Enterprise
“Convene and Focus”
Session
Chief Bob Gloade, Millbrook First
Nation Twila Gaudet,
Consultation Liaison
Jennifer MacGillivary, Benefits
Officer
Chris Googoo, GM, Ulnooweg
Dev’t Group Inc.
Michael Wyse, CEO, BBI
Bob Bennett, ED, Summer Street
Industries
Action Items:
see App. A for more
- Convene employers: workforce
participation
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 21th
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 & Culture
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
Presentation: [TBD]
Bill MacAvoy,
TBD
Cushman Wakefield
Atlantic
Daniel Holland,
Beacon Securities
(YES) Nova Scotia
Jevon MacDonald –
Startups
Henry Demone, Chief
Peters – Natural
Resources
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
Action Items:
see Appendix A
Plan Framework
Approved
TBD
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”)
TBD
Determine the Legislative
changes required
-Form Recos to legislature to
introduce in spring Session
•
Review & approval of final
CDP
• Coalition as Board overseeing
development of CDP
• Input, review and approval of CDP
• Public Review & Feedback
Approve CDP
Coalition leading by examples with
Action Items to action
• Coalition as symbol/ catalyst for action
• Modeling leadership behavior on multisector collaboration
-Volta Start-up
Showcase
-oneNS Hackathon
-Ready Willing and
Able Workforce
Participation
Discussions
Cradle to Career
Engagement and
“Convene and Focus” Consultant on CDP
session
oneNS Secretariat
Getting More Out of
Universities “Convene
and Focus” session
Green & Natural
Resource Economy
“Convene and
Focus” session
Economic Growth
Clusters “Convene and
Focus” session
Phase Two Shift to Phase III
• Coalition as engagement /consultation
partner
• Ongoing engagement and input
• Mobilizing and encouraging broadbased 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.
December 2014
Youth & Social Entrepreneurship
• Bring Social Enterprises and the Private Sector together to determine how social enterprise support can be incorporated into private sector models.
January 2015
Immigration, Welcoming
Communities & Tourism
• Tourism Proposal Endorsed
February 2015
Workforce Participation
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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.