Get ready Ottawa – an amazing shared space project is in the pipeline!
Under One Roof: A project to unite Ottawa-based NGO’s is currently being incubated by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and has the potential to finally realize an Ottawa version of the CSI in Toronto.
Diane Touchette is the driving force behind this project and her vision involves a building with 4 or 5 floors to house many progressive organizations all sharing an innovation space on the ground floor. This common area would feature a state of the art kitchen facility, coffee lounge, meeting rooms, board rooms, progressive book store, and print-shop. In the basement there would be a gym and yoga room, with the upper three floors providing office space designed for collaboration between the small, medium, and larger staffed organizations who become tenants, as well as hot desks for those who don’t need to rent full time space.
Diane and her team are currently looking for the perfect building to house this exciting space. The potential of this space to build collaboration among policy organizations and between different sectors is very exciting, as is the street presence a space like this would have in the Ottawa community. Going to work in this building would also be a truly exceptional experience – potentially bringing new people into this work, and keeping people already doing it inspired and motivated to continue to create change.
Hurry Diane – we can’t wait!
For more info contact dianet (at) policyalternatives (dot) ca
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