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.
Over the last year and a half, Canadian international development organizations have been crafting a sector-wide Anti-Racism Framework, with the goal of creating a springboard for collective transformation. This second article in our Rethinking Philanthropy series reflects on the process that led to the adoption of the framework.
On March 4, the Arctic Inspiration Prize celebrated 10 years of “By the North, for the North” at its annual awards ceremony. In our final AIP laureate profile, we highlight a project in which Nunavut youth learn the traditional skill of qajaqing.
While many traditional healing camps are established in remote wilderness areas, AIP laureate Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation’s camp is easily accessible for Yellowknife’s Indigenous population.
