Presentation to the partners of this project across Ontario

1. HSC 10th Anniversary
Celebration

2. What are we celebrating?
• HSC’s achievements
• Achievements of housing
• Achievements of our clients
• 10 years of service
• Future of HSC and housing

3. Themes
• Bringing people together
• Improving on foundations
• Leadership
• Making an impact
• Spirit of service
• Inspiring others
• Innovation
• Excellence
• 10

4. The HSC Big 10
Tune-up
• 10 days
• 10 locations
• Tangible gift to a community
• One day project
• 5 models for projects
• Party

5. Look and Feel
• Low budget
• Low tech
• High personal investment
• Community
• Working together
• Fun
• The DOnation
• Jamie’s Big Feastival
• Extreme makeover

7. The Projects
 Weatherproofing a building for energy efficiency
 Community centre facelift to make it a more viable
resource to its residents
 Existing community garden facelift, root cellar in
the building for vegetables, build a greenhouse
 Safety and energy landscaping and lighting
 Full day cooking class with a local chef & home
economist

9. Who’s involved?
The big day
• Community housing staff (HPs, SMs)
• Community volunteers
• HSC staff
• Board members of HSC and its subsidiaries
• Residents
• Politicians/ council
• Professional volunteers (master gardener, chef,
contractor, landscape architect, electrician)
• Local business people (catering, professionals)
• Other sponsors (to be present)

10. Day Schedule
• 8:00 – volunteers arrive for breakfast buffet, meet
and greet
• 8:30 – local professional lead will instruct the team
on how the day will go, assign jobs to team members
• 9:00 start
• Lunch 12:30 to 1:30
• Finish project at 5:30 – clean up
• Ribbon cutting at 6:00 to kick off celebration!
BBQ on site with live music from local musicians.

11. Locations

12. Potential Dates
September 2012
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Labour Day
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
SMs Housing
Network
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30

14. Budgeting
• Approx. $3000 direct project expenses
• Does not include catering and travel costs
• Costs managed by HSC
• Contingent on donated time from professionals
(i.e. electrician or landscape designer)
• Projections exclude sponsors and donations

15. Challenges
• Ease of maintenance for the recipient
• Financial involvement
• Scheduling
• Timeline

16. Summary
• Visibility of our work
• Collaboration of a community
• Gift to our clients
• Symbol of our leadership in the community
• Call to action for the sector
• Good feeling

17. Next Steps
• Locations and Board Champions
• Outreach to Service Managers
• Selection of Housing Providers
• Setting dates of events
• Projects allocated to locations
• May 31st

19. For further information contact
Gina Lewis Watts at
ginalewiswatts@gmail.com
Thank you
© 2012 Housing Services Corporation