A Chilly Time for Charities: Audits, Politics and Preventing Poverty
This article is the eighth in a series on Canadian Charities Working Internationally. SUMMARY: In this opinion piece, Philanthropist editor Gordon Floyd takes a look
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Do Canada’s internationally focused charities operate in an enabling environment?
This article is the fourth in a series on Canadian Charities Working Internationally. SUMMARY: Julia Sanchez, president and CEO of the Canadian Council for International
The problems with ‘direction and control’
This article is the second in a series on Canadian Charities Working Internationally. ABSTRACT: Canadian charities working internationally are subject to regulations that are intended
Learning To Tango On A Tightrope: Implementing A Collective Impact Approach
Cynthia Gates, Translator Summary: For the past 20 years, Lyse Brunet has been at the heart of collaborative community development in the province of Québec
Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together In Chaotic Times
by Paul Born, San Francisco, California: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; 2014 isbn 978-1-62656-097-0 Summary: Deepening Community is Paul Born’s fourth book and his most personal reflection to date
Point / Counterpoint: Collective Impact
Resolved: That Collective Impact is simply a re-branded and codified model of longstanding collaborative approaches that is too rigid to encourage genuine innovation and social
Collective Impact: Venturing On An Unfamiliar Road
Summary: In 2010 Hilary Pearson wrote in The Philanthropist about the emerging trend of creating Funder Collaboratives to address the challenges of the 2008/2009 economic downturn.
The promise and peril of collective impact
Summary: On the one hand, Collective Impact is deceptively simple: a clearly defined framework with three pre-conditions and five conditions and a growing body of experience