The Toronto Sports Council is conducting a survey to gather information on the challenges, needs, and issues facing not-for-profit Toronto sport organizations like yours. This survey is about your organization, your work, and your membership. Please take a couple of minutes and complete the Sport Stakeholder Survey:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/633367/Toronto-Sports-Council-September-2011
The results of the survey will be discussed at the TSC Sport...
Toronto Sport Council 2011 Sport Conference: for non-profit sport and recreation groups
| When: | Saturday October 15, 2011 |
| Time: | Two sessions: 9-11 am, noon-3 pm |
| Location: | Edithvale Community Centre, 7 Edithvale Drive (off of Finch between Yonge and Bathurst) |
| Registration deadline: | Monday October 10, 2011 |
Join us for one or both sessions:
1st session, 9-11am: Local Sport Issues Discussion & 2012...
The 2012 Ontario Summer Games is holding a rally and launch event to mark the official one-year countdown to the Games in Toronto next summer. As the energy and momentum build, LGBTQ athletes and sports enthusiasts are invited to come out and play an active role in making the Games a success by volunteering. You can learn more about volunteer opportunities and celebrate...
For Immediate Release
Targeting marginalised youth to teach them leadership and programme planning skills particularly geared toward inner-city communities, Seneca College (www.senecac.on.ca) is exploring the creation of a new “Urban Recreation Certificate” programme. Focusing on students who may themselves be or have been marginalised, the program will provide a bridge into a career in urban recreation, and will engage marginalised...
G20 Summit...The World Economic Forum @ Davos...OutSport Fall Scrum?
Okay, maybe not all of the same stature, but the 2011 OutSport Fall Scrum is shaping up to be an incredible opportunity for the LGBT-Sport community to gather for interesting seminars, networking opportunities, and a great keynote speaker.
There are number of very interesting and important issues within LGBT-Sport, and OutSport...
On July 8, 2011, Tracey Kohuch, the former Treasurer of the TGHA, pled guilty to the charge of ‘Fraud Over $5,000’. He has also accepted responsibility for the missing funds of approximately $62,000 from the TGHA. Tracey’s sentence will be handed out on September 21, 2011.
The result of a guilty plea would not have happened without the work and...
It may seem like a long ways off, but for those of you who are planning to go to the worldOutgames in Antwerp in 2013, you might want to consider registering now. The deadline for early registration is the end of August 2011. The registration fee will increase on September 1st from €140 to €160.
OutSport Toronto will...
What is the Pride Paradox? Pride is a spectacle. It’s a passive affair with performers and a large audience. By its nature it creates a barrier that divides the community and discourages participation. Sport, on the other hand, is inherently active. It demands participation. It encourages play.
Sport faces additional barriers to LGBT participation that shadows the pride paradox. Many...
With the launch of OutSport Toronto's newsletter, The Score, OutSport Toronto takes another step closer to fulfilling its mission to serve and supports LGBT amateur sport and recreation organisations and athletes in the Greater Toronto Area.
The content of The Score is driven by OutSport Toronto member organisations from:
I'm sitting here looking out over a sunny Monday afternoon, thinking what a great weekend this past one turned out to be. We'll be posting a fuller story about OutSport Toronto at Pride this year, but I have to say how personally delighted I am at our first year at Pride.
Last year, when I walked down Alexander Street after...
Attention... Attention....
Pride is almost upon us. What are you doing to promote yourselves and attract new members?
OutSport Toronto is promoting you by extending relationships to the LGBT media (Xtra and FAB use our calendar to populate their publications), through twitter, through facebook, by communicating to different levels of government about LGBT sport in the GTA.... and by facilitating Toronto Pride's FIRST...
My favourite day of the 2010 Summer last year was without a doubt Sunday, July 4th - the day of the Pride Parade.
I had been to a couple of parades as a spectator, and always had a good time, but it was just one of several fun things to do in the city during the summer. This year was...
