When Ilona Dougherty co-founded Apathy is Boring and became its national director, she was just 23 years old. Young though she was, it seemed apparent to everyone — herself included — that she was exactly where she needed to be....
Retention has become the cause célèbre for many organizations. With a particular focus on the younger generation, ideas abound on how to create a working environment that is welcoming, engaging and supportive. An engaged staff is a satisfied one, after...
Community & Primary Health Care (CPHC) provides universally accessible and comprehensive primary health care and community support services to a diverse population. Boasting 11 sites across Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, the organization will soon be celebrating its 100th year...
Mergers have long occupied a complicated place within the not-for-profit sector. On one hand, not-for-profit organizations may pursue them to increase impact and improve service while increasing efficiencies over the long term. On the other hand, mergers have often been...
A Nova Scotia mainstay with the mission of advancing marginalized learners through innovation, empathy, volunteerism, diversity and partnership, EPIC has run its Youth Peer and Parents PEACE program for 13 years. It's what founder and executive director Barry Waldman calls...
Who is grooming the next generation of nonprofit leaders? In a 2011 confidential survey conducted by crawfordconnect with 17 nonprofit leaders across Canada, 94% of participants said that although succession planning was top of mind, today’s leaders are not doing...
Since 1948, the MS Society of Calgary has been hard at work fulfilling its two-tiered mission: finding a cure for MS and enabling people affected by the disease to enhance their quality of life. So far they've amassed eight Donner...
I was talking with a friend recently who was finishing a master's degree after six years of post-secondary schooling. She was just about to graduate and was describing the deep sense of uncertainty she felt about whether she had the...
This experiment saw CharityVillage® and three article coordinators reach out to their Millennial networks to collaborate on a series of key questions about engaged citizenship, work, social media, and stereotypes. More than 30 respondents contributed thousands of words, which the...
Dear Millennials of 2011: "I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth." - Rainer Maria Rilke February 1903, Paris This quote reminded me of...
