Back in my grad school days, I was in a seminar called ‘Public Intellectuals, Institutional Critique’ where, among many other things, we grappled with the embrace of all things “excellence” in the academy. As I delve deeper into my work...
If volunteers mobilized through social media can make a difference in who gets elected as president of the United States, surely any nonprofit organization looking to be effective has to look at all the ways social media can be used...
If you think you’ll attract (and keep) the attention of youth at your next event with the promise of free pizza - think again. While youth engagement is an important endeavor for many organizations, all too often activities and events...
“We’re creative. We’re gonna sit at our desks typing while the walls fall down around us. Because we’re the least important, most important thing there is.” Those were Don Draper’s words during an uncharacteristically cynical moment in the hit series...
Picket signs, megaphones, and a lot of people shouting in unity at the top of their lungs – from this image alone the most obvious benefit of protesting is evident: it increases the visibility of a cause and raises awareness....
Leveraging funds. Capacity-building. Community-driven action. Enabling populations. Collaboration. Participatory action. Anti-oppression. Just some examples of a multitude of terms regularly thrown around by professionals in the nonprofit sector, these buzzwords can be reasonably categorized as industry speak, or just plain...
It may be hard to believe but December has quickly come upon us bringing with it holiday parties, winter parkas, snowy sidewalks and a sudden upsurge in sales of hot chocolate. At CharityVillage, the arrival of December means one more...
More than 1,500 charities and nonprofits have rallied their social network troops this fall in the Aviva Community Fund’s online race for votes and project funding. But as more and more companies turn to online giving contests to fulfill corporate...
As the temperature approaches winter lows, hundreds of thousands of men across Canada are donning a cozy upper lip accessory — the moustache. November in Canada, as in many countries around the world, has become synonymous with Movember, the global...
Sometimes our work environments make it seem like we've never left high school. Cliques develop, groups grow insular and it becomes nearly impossible to cross the divide. Whether it's a nonprofit organization or for-profit company, it's not unusual for employees...
