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Treaty 7 Indigenous Ally Toolkit
Calgary Foundation
What is an ally?
When it comes to creating a positive and sustainable impact on the lives of Indigenous people, it is important to understand the role that individuals play within the collective experience. An ally recognizes that every person has a basic right to human dignity, respect, and equal
Vision in Leadership
Danielle Coates-Connor, Nonprofit Quarterly
This article comes from the Spring 2021 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly, āRadical Leadership: Visioning Lines of Flight.ā
āThereās this notion that change takes time. But in reality, a lot of change just happens in radical paradigm shifts,ā explains Cyndi Suarez, Nonprofit Quarterlyā
Social Policy Trends: Home Alone
Ron Kneebone, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
The number of people living alone in Canada more than doubled between 1981 and 2016, from 1.7 million to 4.0 million. By 2016, one-person households had become the most common household type.
In March 2019, Statistics Canada released a study reporting on the number and characteristics of people in
4 Evidence-based benefits of seeking peer support
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
The Bottom Line
Peers are equal to us in aspects such as age, background, or ability.
Seeking support from peersāwho can provide advice and encouragement based on lived experienceāis a promising strategy for improving health outcomes.
Group therapy/smoking cessation programs increase the ch
How to identify elder abuse and take action to stop it
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Elder abuse is defined as any action or lack of action that brings harm to an older person. Before the pandemic, it was estimated that 16% of older adults over 60 were affected by some form of abuse. It's believed that elder abuse has been on the rise since the global lockdown began; those providing
Time is Currency
Danielle Coates-Connor, Nonprofit Quarterly
How are you spending your time? Itās a simple question. Yet people struggle to answer and tell little lies.
Calculating how our time is spent typically reveals our obligations, inadequacies, vices, and shortcomings. Itās like this when we take a linear view of time. Realizing the nature of this
Centering Care
Edge Leadership, Nonprofit Quarterly
āHealing Ourselves Freeā is a conversation facilitated by Resist board president Allen Kwabena Frimpong as part of the Justice is Essential series. Frimpong is joined by Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry and Emanuel Brown of the Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom. This segment highlights w
Are Your Organization and Its Board āAccess Ableā?
Katherine Schneider, Nonprofit Quarterly
Charity to people with disabilities goes back to Biblical times, but philanthropy involving meaningful input from those served is a recent phenomenon.
The demand for ānothing about us without usā is core to the ethos of the disability rights movement. Major civil rights legislation for the one-
Eldersong: Finding and Celebrating Our Voice
Music Mile YYC
The first week of June is Seniorsā Week in Calgary. ā
Music Mile, National Music Centre, and Skeeter Media, in partnership with Age-Friendly Calgary, present senior Calgary artists in an exciting new Seniorsā Week broadcast called Eldersong.ā
Each artist has put together a 10 minute video,
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