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Day Laborers Envision a Brighter Post-Pandemic Future

Steve Dubb, Nonprofit Quarterly

During the pandemic, day laborer centers have had to transform their operations. This includes everything from developing remote job dispatch operations to instituting a wide range of financial and in-kind supports. Not every day laborer is undocumented, but those who are have been denied access to

Dementia Isolation Toolkit Training Videos

Dementia Isolation Toolkit

DIT Training Videos has prepared two training videos to help you use the DIT. After viewing, they would love to hear your feedback! Please provide them with feedback in the form below the videos. READ MORE HERE

Alberta Northern Lights Volunteer Recognition Program

Government of Alberta

Every day, volunteers across the province are helping to improve the lives of Albertans and make our communities stronger. Volunteers are the heart of our community, whether they’re: supporting recreation and cultural programs that enhance our daily experiences working on the frontlines to del

RECORDING - Merging for Good: Thinking about Non-Profit Amalgamations Presentation

CORE Alberta

The session recording is attached as a FILE in this post.  Please find the slide deck shared during the event attached.  CORE Alberta hosted an event on April 27, 2021 with guest speakers —Angela Clarke from Trellis and James Stauch and Cordelia Snowdon from the Institute for Community Prosp

Building Connections: Promising Practices to Reduce Older Adult Social Isolation for Age-Friendly Community Initiatives

Ontario Age-Friendly Communities Outreach Program

The Ontario Age-Friendly Communities Outreach Program has developed Building Connections: Promising Practices to Reduce Older Adult Social Isolation for Age-Friendly Community Initiatives to provide age-friendly community initiatives with an evidence-based outline for creating or adapting community

A Feminist Recovery Plan for Canada

YWCA Canada

Women, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people are at the forefront of Canada’s pandemic response And women need to be centered in Canada’s economic recovery efforts going forward. 56% of women workers are concentrated in occupations known as the 5Cs: caring, cashiering, catering, cleaning and cle

Civic infrastructure ill-equipped to serve an aging population

Zoltan Varadi, University of Calgary

Calgary’s exponential growth as a city over the past several decades may soon be outpaced by another metric — its rapidly increasing population of older adults. A recent study by University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work professor Dr. Yeonjung Lee, PhD, found that more than three-quarters of

More Than a Visitor: The Emerging Role of Essential Caregivers in Long-Term Care

Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging

This report is comprised of summaries of several research projects that the Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging (CIRA) team completed throughout 2020 and 2021 in partnership with the York Care Centre (YCC). Visitation has been restricted for many long-term care facilities across the world d

Resilience: Why do some of us bounce back from adversity better than others?

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

The resilience scale from the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative is a metaphor to explain why some people seem more resilient than others and to help visualize how to improve resilience: the ability to respond positively in the face of adversity. READ MORE HERE

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