The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of many organizations. In their practical and timely book, Dennis Young and Elizabeth Searing take the opportunity to look at the larger question of preparedness in sector groups for dealing with circumstances – society-wide or unique to a specific organization – that threaten their viability.
Canada’s charitable sector has a unique opportunity to help shape the leadership practices and related discourse about sustainable and responsible investment, argue contributors Chad Park and Greg Elliott. In doing so, it can leverage the sector’s significant invested assets to help meaningfully address some of today’s most pressing challenges, they write.
It is past time that development NGOs prioritize ethics, argues contributor Robyn Waite: their legitimacy – and success – depends on it, the nature of their practice demands it, and people and planet need moral organizations to succeed.
Launched in July by Surabhi Jain and Saralyn Hodgkin, Women in Power is an “allyship leadership practice” that urges racialized and white women to turn away from polarization, turn toward discourse, and “stand in our power together” by sharing their lived experiences in the workplace.
La résilience est essentielle pour s’adapter à la transition. Dans notre deuxième profil de notre série Mission de transition, nous nous intéressons au Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal qui vise à développer la capacité des citoyens et des communautés du Québec à travailler ensemble pour créer des villes démocratiques, en santé et résilientes à l’échelle humaine.
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-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.
