Vital Signs® is an annual community check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada. It measures the vitality of cities, identifies significant trends, and assigns grades in at least ten areas critical to quality of life. This past October, the Community Foundation of Canada (CFC) released the first national Vital Signs® report to complement the local reports and to add a national picture.
In a time when budgets are stretched and there are so many competing priorities within organizations, how are they finding the financial resources to invest in branding? While a full-scale branding process may not be possible for everyone, the good news is that branding on a budget is do-able.
This article is a profile of Volunteer Vancouver’s new People Lens program that uses a people-first philosophy.
With today’s hectic pace, how often have you wished there was two of you so you could be in two places at the same time? That’s just one of the benefits cited by Tanya Sather of the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion (BACI) of her position as co-executive director with Richard Faucher.
Community economic development (CED) is a community-based, community-directed and holistic approach to deal with marginalization. CED describes local action by people to create economic opportunities and enhance social conditions in their communities on a sustainable and inclusive basis, particularly among those who are most disadvantaged.
What were you doing when you were a teenager? Founding a nonprofit organization? Heading up two successful business ventures? Discovering an effective and natural alternative to immunosuppressive drugs? Me neither! Yet, these are just some of the extraordinary activities that this year’s Top 20 Under 20 award recipients are up to.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a nonprofit organization that doesn’t spend an incredible amount of time focused on resource development. As a result, some organizations establish their own foundation – known as a “parallel foundation”.
A profile of Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver, an organization celebrating their 50th anniversary. Find out how things have changed for the organization over the past half-century.
There are 161,000 nonprofit and voluntary sector organizations in Canada…and counting. To ask the question, “Is the proliferation of nonprofits an opportunity or a threat?” is a little like asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Depending on who you talk to, or what aspect of competition you are discussing, the answer will be different.
Branding is a hot topic and there have been plenty of stories written about the “why” and “how” of branding. Less has been written about the “so what”? For organizations just starting a branding process through to those who’ve completed and launched a new brand, what do the brand and branding process mean for staff?
