Marilyn Struthers has spent her entire career in the charitable and non-profit sector in community and organizational development and research. She has worked at the grass roots, in anti-violence organizing, for Indigenous communities, as a provincial funder for the Ontario Trillium Foundation and as the Eaton Chair of Social Innovation at Ryerson University. She is passionate about articulating the shifts in the sector and its role in Canadian society and has published on financing, public funding practice and shifting organizing practices. She is currently freelance consulting and lives a stone’s throw from Georgian Bay.
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