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Who Decides? Mapping Power and Decision Making in Nonprofits

Jon Huggett and Caitrin Moran, Nonprofit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article, which comes from the fall 2008 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Working Nonprofit Style,” discusses tools to improve organizational decision making. These tools can identify who should make critical decisions and how participants should make them. The authors

Building a Culture of Accountability

Piper Anderson, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Last summer, institutions across sectors were called to account for their failure to address systemic racism. Many organizational leaders addressed the backlash by requesting trainings and consultations from professionals like myself in the field of racial equity. Unfortunately, many of these same

RECORDING - Community-Based Seniors Serving Sector Initiative - Community Activation Sessions

Community-Based Seniors Serving Sector Initiative

Watch a recording of the session and review the session slide deck.  Throughout May and June 2021, community-based seniors serving sector staff and volunteers and allied systems partners were invited to attend these sessions to learn more about the work of and participate in the exciting futur

OpportuNext Online Career Transition Tool

The Conference Board of Canada

A new solution for a changing job market. Switching careers can be hard—but what if there were an easier way to identify, assess, and pursue new opportunities? The Conference Board of Canada and the Future Skills Centre are excited to launch a free online tool designed to help job placement profe

Innovation Report Card 2021

The Conference Board of Canada

Innovation is important. Innovation is the process through which economic or social value is extracted from knowledge—by creating, diffusing, and transforming ideas—to produce new or improved products, services, and processes. How does Canada stack up? Innovation is important. It is the drivin

Bridging the Affordability Gap: Report and Recommendations

Edmonton Social Planning Council

Bridging the Affordability Gap summarizes the results of a short-term bridge funding program involving five women with histories of sexual exploitation who were facing financial difficulties making ends meet and did not want to turn back to the sex trade to pay the bills. For five months (November 2

Healthy Eating in Recreation Settings eCourse

Communities Choose Well

This FREE eCourse provides resources, examples, and tools to help champions successfully make changes to their recreation facility food environment. Earn module completion certificates for modules 1 through 8 Earn a course completion certificate and letter of commendation for completing modules

The COVID Decade: Understanding the Long-Term Societal Impacts of COVID-19

The British Academy

The British Academy was asked by the Government Office for Science to produce an independent review on the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19. This report outlines the evidence across a range of areas, building upon a series of expert reviews, engagement, synthesis and analysis across the resea

The Ongoing COVID-19 Experience of Canadian Charities

Imagine Canada

This resource is informed by findings from a national survey of over 1,000 registered charities conducted by Imagine Canada in November 2020. Since this time, there has been significant increases in cases of COVID-19, prompting many governments to implement restrictive public health orders. This ha

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