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Garry Loewen

Gender:Male
Member since:October 31, 2006
Organization:Garry Loewen Consulting
Phone:204-257-6053
Fax:204-254-8704
Address:
27 Upton Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2N 1S8

Biography

Garry has worked as a business person, a parish minister, an economic development director, and a community activist. His early career was as a business person with Air Canada. His last two positions there included Executive Assistant to the President, and General Manager of Air Canada's operations at Toronto International Airport. He served as a parish minister for five years.Garry is currently self-employed as a community and economic development consultant. He has served as the Executive Director of the North End Community Renewal Corporation in Winnipeg, the Executive Director of The Canadian Community Economic Development Network, the Community Economic Development Director for Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, the founding Executive Director of SEED Winnipeg, (a micro-enterprise development organization), and the founding President of Opportunities For Employment, an organization that assists welfare recipients to make the transition from welfare to work.

Blogs
A Journey in Collaboration
Sometimes we speak about collaboration as if it is a value free activity -- something that everyone would want to do, if only they had the time, networks and expertise to do it. How do we respond when we discover that entrenched power and ideologies create barriers to even getting started?
Communities Collaborating Blog
Bringing people in communities to collaboration is an emerging field of practice. The Communities Collaborating Institute was developed to advance the skills of collaborators and practitioners, and to help make the work of renewing communities easier and more effective. Check out what members of this online learning community are blogging about today!