When Disaster Hits Home: The Calgary Flood & the YWCA
This post was provided by Elsbeth Mehrer, Director of External Relations at YWCA Calgary, as part of our Crisis Relief Series. In June 2013, the … Read more
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The Reading Revolution
This post was provided by Usha Tamba Dhar, Chief Executive Officer of Sage Youth, as part of the Ashoka Canada Fellows: Social Innovation Demystified series. … Read more
Crisis Abroad: On the Ground After Typhoon Haiyan
Posted onImagine plotting the world’s largest disasters on individual graphs. In most, but not all cases, there would be an initial “spike” of destruction immediately following … Read more
Empowering First Nation Youth with Mobile Film and Music Training Studio
Posted onThis post was provided by Manon Barbeau, founding-director of Wapikoni mobile, as part of the Ashoka Canada Fellows: Social Innovation Demystified series. Wapikoni Mobile Wapikoni … Read more
CanadaHelps: Past, Present, Future
This post was provided by Patrick Johnston, Chair of the CanadaHelps Board of Directors. My First introduction to CanadaHelps One autumn day in 1999, during … Read more
Leveraging the Law to Improve the Lives of Girls Forever
This post was provided by Fiona Sampson, founder of The Equality Effect, as part of the Ashoka Canada Fellows: Social Innovation Demystified series. The Equality … Read more
Broken but Not Alone: The Healing Power of Community
I don’t know a single person who isn’t broken in some way. While some of us are able to hide that brokenness, others wear it … Read more
Violence Has No Geographical Barriers
A few months ago, many people were shocked at new research from the World Health Organization (WHO) that found one in three females across the … Read more
New Demands on Charities: How You Can Keep the Charitable Sector Strong
For the past nine years, Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations’ (CCVO) research – from annual sector surveys to in-depth studies of leadership, workforce issues and … Read more
Are you an active citizen?
Take a moment to ask yourself: when was the last time you thought about what you do to be a good citizen? The Institute for … Read more