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Resources on CORE include checklists, toolkits, reports, studies, videos, and other materials on topics relevant to those working or volunteering in support of healthy aging and older adults independent living.
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Anti-Racist Social Impact
Future of Good
2020 changed the mainstream conversation on systemic racism. While BIPOC activists and professionals have been working to decolonize and make anti-racist social impact work for many, many years, some organizations finally began to listen last year. This collection from Future of Good catches you up
Social Impact Organizations Sent Their Staff Home a Year Ago. Here’s What They’ve Learned About Remote Work So Far.
Brennan Doherty, Future of Good
The Future of Good released this story on social impact organizations across the sector, one year after transitioning to work from home. Here are their stories on what it took, besides just making sure everyone emptied out the staff fridge.
Learn more as roughly two-thirds of Canadian charities alo
Digital Communication Policies Guide for Nonprofits
Imagine Canada
As more work is done online, developing digital policies ahead of time allows your organization to plan for its short-term needs as well as mitigates long-term risks.
Created by Imagine Canada and Keela, this guide contains tips, how-to's, and checklists for a Social Media Policy, a Fundraising Pol
Inclusion Without Clear Lines Of Accountability Is Pointless. Here’s Why.
Sheree Atcheson, Forbes
By dictionary definition, accountability is “the fact or condition of being accountable; responsibility”. It is a way to define answerability, liability and reporting. We see accountability embedded into organizations for finance, engineering, product delivery and more, but yet when we look at d
Trauma and the Experience of Emotional Swings
Shahram Heshmat Ph.D.
A hallmark of trauma is its capacity to overwhelm our minds and beliefs. Traumas deeply affect the way we see ourselves, other people, and the world. T
rauma is not the same as something merely stressful. Trauma can lead individuals to see themselves as helpless or damaged and believe that negative
Vaccine pain and anxiety management: the CARD system
Immunize Canada
COVID-19 is a very infectious disease that can cause lifethreatening illness. COVID-19 disease can affect anyone. However, it is more dangerous for older adults. Because of this, older adults are one of the first groups of people being offered the COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccinations are recurring health
Barriers and motivators of physical activity participation in middle-aged and older adults—A systematic review
Karl Spiteri, David Broom, Amira Hassan Bekhet, John Xerri De Caro, Bob Laventure, Kate Grafton, Sheffield Hallam University
Abstract
Identifying the difference in barriers and motivators between middle-age and older adults could contribute toward the development of age-specific health promotion interventions. The aim of this review was to synthesize the literature on barriers and motivators for physical activity in mi
211 Alberta Final Report
211 Alberta and the Seniors Informaiton Phone Line
211 and the Seniors Information Phone Line have released figures from 2020 in the latest annual report. It was a busy year, as the service became an important source of information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights include:Â
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ONE BIG EXPERIMENT Chronicling a Nonprofit Merger in Action
Institute for Community Prosperity
Nonprofit human service organization mergers are relatively uncommon, and nonprofit mergers are particularly rare in Alberta - there appear to be scarcely more than one or two mergers of human service organizations in the province per decade.
This interim report captures early stage insights from a
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