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RECORDING: Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Age Friendly Communities

Ontario Caregiver Organization

Age-Friendly Communities (AFCs) optimize opportunities for health and wellbeing by ensuring their policies, planning processes, structures, and services are accessible to and inclusive of people of all ages and abilities. AFCs encourage us to look at how a community’s physical and social environme

Non-Profit Organizations and Volunteering Satellite Account: Human Resources Module, 2010 to 2019

Government of Canada

In 2019, non-profit organizations (NPOs)—serving households, businesses and governments—employed 2.5 million people, representing 12.8% of all jobs in Canada. The employment share ranged between 12.4% and 12.8%, increasing during the 2010-to-2019 period. While the economic and social landscape

Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Canada

Royal Society of Canada

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance (the intent to receive a vaccine i.e. attitude not a behaviour) exists on a continuum ranging from a small minority of people who strongly oppose vaccination, through the heterogeneous ‘vaccine-hesitant’ or the ‘moveable middle’ group with varying levels of concer

The future of work: A hybrid work model

Accenture

The Accenture Future of Work Study 2021 explored what people need to be healthy and productive as we enter a new era of work. A majority of workers (83%) prefer a hybrid work model, but a variety of factors influence their ability to thrive, whether they’re onsite or off. Responsible leaders mus

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

National Film Board of Canada

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm

Vaccine Report

CanAge

Adult vaccinations are a core pillar of any preventive health strategy, drastically relieving the burden on our overtaxed acute healthcare system at astonishing cost savings to all levels of government.​ This leads to an uncomfortable but inevitable question: why is only 3% of Canada’s older po

Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work

Dax-Devlon Ross, Nonprofit Quarterly

Learn more about the generational differences in racial equity work that Dax-Devlon Ross has discovered: In law school, I was trained to spot issues within fact patterns. In simplest terms, one’s grasp of the relevant law was ascertained by the degree to which one could read a set of facts and d

Beyond Donations: How Two Canadian Organizations are Rebuilding Community Wealth Post-COVID

Kenza Moller, Future of Good

Since COVID-19 first hit Canada in March 2020, the gap between the rich and poor has grown wider in communities, with nearly 40 percent of Canadians reporting deteriorating finances over the last year. The organizations that typically help them, however, are also suffering, with more than two-thirds

Responding to the COVID-19 emergency, returning to growth: older workers and the pandemic recovery

Jon Lai

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the Canadian economy in a severe and unprecedented manner. For older workers and their families, the pandemic represents an ongoing challenge to their livelihoods, employment status, and financial well-being. Moreover, the current public health risks associated wi

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