Cities have developed at the expense of the human condition, and Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal wants to change that. The organization’s aim is to develop the capacity of individuals and communities across Quebec to work together to create democratic, healthy, resilient cities on a human scale.
Non-profits tackle big problems: poverty; inequities in health, education, and work access; sexual and racial discrimination; refugee crises; food insecurity; community development; et cetera. But
Grassroots organizations are an integral part of the non-profit sector, responding to needs and shaping how communities care for each other. This profile, the first in a series, looks at how a group of Haligonians, recognizing that vulnerable people had nowhere to go during the pandemic and that government and non-profit organizations weren’t acting quickly enough, came together to fill a pressing need.
Dans le premier volet de notre série Mission Transition, la collaboratrice Diane Bérard dresse le profil de l’organisme sans but lucratif montréalais Insertech, qui forme des adultes sans emploi à réparer des appareils électroniques considérés comme des déchets et les offrir au public à des prix abordables, tout en ayant pour mandat de démocratiser la technologie.
Montreal non-profit Insertech trains unemployed adults to repair electronic appliances considered waste and offers them to the public at affordable prices – with a mandate to broaden access to technology while they’re at it.
Non-profit leaders are increasingly called on to act as their organizations’ chief technology officers. Contributor Katie Gibson, co-founder of the soon-to-launch Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience, offers some advice on building digital capacity.
When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, contributor Toby Fyfe had been president of the not-for-profit Institute on Governance for three years. He shares six lessons he took from the pandemic pivot.
In the third article in our Rethinking Philanthropy series, Musu Taylor-Lewis, co-chair of a task force from Canada’s international development sector, shares the main take-aways from the Collective Commitment report, produced in the first stage of a sector-wide initiative to create an Anti-Racism Framework.
