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Speaker: John Siebert, Executive Director of Project Ploughshares
A transcript from Prayer Breakfast Talk - 1st May, 2013
Precedents
Thank you so much Theron for the warm introduction. As I look over the list of former speakers at this event I'm moved by memories.
The first speaker in 1976, Dr. Frank Peters, was a friend of my father. Dr. John Redekop spoke in 1993. He was the inspiration for me in high school to study political science when I went to university. More recently Cathy Brothers, who has been a mentor and support to so many of us in the local non-profit community through Capacity Waterloo. And Brice…
They are calling on executive directors or senior leaders of nonprofits with paid staff to add your voice and experience to tell the story of what leaders are experiencing.
The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) is excited to launch the first sector-wide survey on Ontario's nonprofit leadership. Click on this invitation link to complete the Looking Ahead Survey: http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/mowat-centre/looking-ahead-survey/?code=hqv3qsvcrp
They are calling on executive directors or senior leaders of nonprofits with paid staff to add your voice and experience to tell the story of what leaders are experiencing. The survey is being sent out as widely as possible…
Call for Proposals from the Status of Women's Program
The Government of Canada has launched a new call for proposals under the "Opening Doors: Economic Opportunities for Women" component of the Status of Women's Program.
Funding applications will be accepted for the call for proposals, in three thematic areas:
1. Advancing Women in Non-Traditional Occupations;
2. Increasing Economic Options for Women; and
3. Improving Prosperity for Immigrant Women.
The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to invite funding applications for projects that…
Are you a Champion of Change? Download our free app to keep up-to-date on all things Capacity Waterloo Region, all from your mobile device.
We are pleased to announce that Capacity Waterloo Region has developed a mobile app in partnership with iNotForProfit. This partnership is a great example of collaboration at the Accelerator Centre.
Our app is available for Blackberry 10 and Playbook, Iphone/Ipad and Android. Download it now and start following everything about Capacity Waterloo Region in one convenient place!
In November 2012 Jo Ann Ely, Brand System Manager at IBM Canada, and Graham Calderwood, Senior Partner at Ogilvy & Mather, met with the Capacity Waterloo Region team to discuss our organization's brand planning. The day and a half branding session began with a discussion of our current brand and progressed into our team making decisions about what we wanted our brand to become. We started to analyze what our organization does, how it does it, what our core differentiating factors are, and ho…
ONN is very pleased to announce immediate and significant developments on the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (ONCA) for Ontario's nonprofit sector:
ONN is very pleased to announce immediate and significant developments on the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (ONCA) for Ontario's nonprofit sector:
1) No Proclamation before Jan. 1, 2014
Proclamation of the ONCA has been delayed and it will not be proclaimed prior to January 1, 2014. The specific date will be determined by the Ministry of Consumer Services in the coming months.
2) Transition support
Community Legal Eduction Ontario (CLEO) will receive a grant to support the…
Canadians recognize that the charitable sector plays a vital role in our society and provides valuable services to Canadians, including the most vulnerable.
Canadians recognize that the charitable sector plays a vital role in our society and provides valuable services to Canadians, including the most vulnerable. Waterloo Region in particular is quite fortunate to have significant resources to help develop the charitable and not-for-profit sector. Capacity Waterloo Region has worked with numerous partners to increase the capacity and effectiveness of this sector.
As well, Kitchener-Waterloo Member of Parliament, Peter Braid has been actively…
Many thanks to Peter Braid, MP for his strong support of the charitable sector in Canada!
Ottawa, ON, March 21, 2013 - Today's budget, introduced by The Honourable James Flaherty, Minister of Finance, delivers real support for Canada's charities, responding to the Finance Committee's report, Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving.
This report was the culmination of M.P. Peter Braid's Charities Motion, passed unanimously by the House of Commons in 2011, that initiated a study of the current tax system and considered changes that could motivate increased giving.
Budget 2013 proposes a…
Imagine Canada has created a new site called Sector Source which contains capacity building resources that all nonprofits need.
Sector Source is a project by Imagine Canada, whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Sector Source provides charities and nonprofits with the information they need to help develop their organizations. This website is filled with the essential information that the charities and nonprofits in our community need in order to reach their full potential. Please take advantage of this important information by searching through all of the links below.
TOPIC GUIDES: Curated lists of…
Congratulations to class of 2012 on completing the Manulife Board Governance Boot-Camp!
On March 1, 2013, forty-two Executive Directors and Board Chairs from twenty organizations participated in the final session of the Manulife Board Governance Boot-Camp. This is the fourth cohort of our Board Governance Boot Camp, which includes 140 alumni.
The follow-up session was led by board governance experts, Steve Farlow, Fred Galloway and Don McCreesh. The 2013 Manulife Board Governance Boot-Camp is scheduled for November 21st, 22nd & 23rd at the Waterloo Region Museum.
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