The challenges of our time are increasingly complex and interconnected. The solutions require not just innovation but interaction between many different elements including new business models and financial mechanisms, new relationships that align...
My brother, Troy, has autism. Like many other special needs families, our family portrait consists of a whirlwind of acronyms (EIP, IEP, PECS, ABA, SI, IBI, DSM), with us clinging to each other and our sanity in the centre of it all. Like many others affected...
Scale Deep is framed in many questions but the one that resonates the most is ‘what can we do together that we can’t do alone?’ I’m particularly interested in this question because I’ve had the opportunity to work with many people involved with many...
I have to admit, I’m a bit of an Olympics junkie, so it’s been hard to find any time for writing lately. But, as I sit here thinking about what I want to say about my day attending Social Enterprise Toronto (SET) 2014 last month, I realize that SET 2014 and the Winter...
Like millions of other people around the world, on New Year’s Eve of 2013, I made some resolutions to change my life. And like millions of people around the world, by June 2013, I had followed through on exactly…none of them. We all know sticking to...
A cross section of consultants, not-for-profit executive directors and program champions attended Enterprising non-profits (enp) sold out workshop in Kelowna, British Columbia this past October. A co-operative pan-Canadian network, enp has contributed to the growth of...
