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Canadian Red Cross, Toronto Region

danielle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:47:50 +0000

The Canadian Red Cross Society is a non-profit, humanitarian organization dedicated to helping Canadians, as well as the most vulnerable throughout the world. The Toronto Region Council is currently looking for individuals to join the regional council and Community Support Advisory Committee.

For complete details on both positions please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile.

Application deadline: April 6, 2010.

Sheridan College

danielle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:45:42 +0000

Sheridan College is one of Canada’s premier Polytechnic institutes, renowned for innovation and dedicated to exceptional applied learning and graduate success. They are currently looking for a new board member with financial and governance experience.

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Application deadline: June 1, 2010.

Sierra Club Ontario

danielle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:02:50 +0000

The mission of the Sierra Club is to protect and restore the health of the natural environment, including communities in Ontario, by empowering membership and citizenry through education and activism. They are currently looking for an individual to join the Executive Committee of the board to co-ordinate the Challenge to Sprawl campaign.

For complete details, please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile.

Application deadline: May 4, 2010.

Central Neighbourhood House Association

danielle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:20:33 +0000

Central Neighbourhood House is a multi-service community organization engaged in development, child care, programs for chldren and youth, women, seniors, formerly homeless, adult stroke survivors and newcomers. They are looking for individuals with the following areas of skills and expertise: fundraising, financial management, governance, diversity/access and equity, and community and social services.

Please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile for further details.

Application deadline: April 1, 2010.

North York Seniors

danielle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:16:07 +0000

North York Seniors Centre provides programs and services to promote physical, emotional and social well-being for people 55+ living in our diverse community. They are currently looking for a secretary and new board members with a range of skills and experience, including seniors issues and services, health/medical, human resource management, and financial management.

Application deadline: June 29, 2010.

Burlington Counselling & Family Services

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:02:55 +0000

Burlington Counselling & Family Services offers hope, help, and healing through counselling service for depression, family breakdown, family violence, or life crisis. They are currently looking for new board members with a range of skills and experience, such as finance, children and youth, business, and governance.

Please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile for more information.

Application deadline: May 15, 2010.

Applegrove Community Complex

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:13 +0000

For nearly 30 years, Applegrove has been a neighbourhood-based multi-service centre with programs for families with young children, school-age children, teens and more. They are currently looking for a new board member with experience in community and social services, governance, and fundraising.

Application deadline: March 22, 2010.

Community Living York South

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:53:04 +0000

Community Living York South is a non-profit, social service agency supporting people with intellectual disabilities since 1954. They are currently looking for 2 new board members with a variety of experience including: advocacy, education, housing and health/medical.

Application deadline: March 24, 2010.

Family Service Toronto

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:12 +0000

Family Service Toronto provides counselling to individuals and families experiencing life challenges; community development and social advocacy on a range of issues. They are looking for 4 new board members, with a range of experience including: governance, finance, disability issues and services, and immigration.

For further details on these current opportunities please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile.

Application deadline: March 19, 2010.

Houselink Community Homes

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:15 +0000

Houselink is a non-profit charity that provides supportive housing and makes it possible for people living with mental illness to build meaningful lives on their own terms. They are looking for individuals with a variety of skills and expertise, including: fundraising, housing, and community and social services.

For further information, log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile.

Application deadline: April 21, 2010.

JobStart

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:41:41 +0000

JobStart is a community based agency serving job seekers and employers since 1980 delivering employment services to newcomers, experienced workers, persons with disabilities, students and youth. They are looking for new board members with a range of experience and skills, including: labour relations, law, and business.

Please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile for full details.

Application deadline: March 31, 2010.

Greenest City

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:38:43 +0000

Greenest City is dedicated to solutions that inspire diverse communities to green Toronto. They are currently looking for 2 new board members with the following skills and expertise: environment, finance, governance, and community development.

Application deadline: March 12, 2010.

The Self Help Resource Centre

danielle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:35:24 +0000

The Self Help Resource Centre strengthens communities across Ontario by promoting peer support groups that facilitate positive outcomes for people who are facing diverse life transitions and challenges. They are looking for new board members with experience in law, finance, and/or public relations and marketing.

Please log in to your DiverseCity onBoard profile for further information.

Application deadline: March 31, 2010.

March, 2010

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:00:13 +0000

Thinking Corporate on International Women’s Day
( March 8 )

Event planner Lina Badih thinks there is still much work to be done for women to achieve corporate equality. A recent Forbes report states that while women constitute 50% of the workforce in America, they represented only 3% of the chief executives of the country’s 500 largest companies in 2009.

Lina, who won Canadian fashion designer Linda Lundstrom’s Authentic Woman Model Search contest in 2003, is looking to enroll in a mentoring program for women by women, without having to pay thousands of dollars upfront!

Balancing job creation and social services in the Ontario Budget

Investment expert Jerome Kisting states that proposals in the Ontario Budget to decrease corporate tax rates will not have the same kind of impact on future GDP as investing in infrastructure. Corporate tax cuts are a politically expedient tool which have a debatable effect on provincial competitiveness and long-term employment. An alternative approach to balancing job creation and social services could be the development of a provincial social enterprise fund – for profit businesses with a social mission, lessening the strain on government services and reducing the need for short-term employment initiatives.

Colour at the Oscars

For National Film Board of Canada producer Lea Marin, much work still needs to be done when it comes to issues of race in Hollywood. Recent stats for the Directors Guild of America list approximately 613 minority members from a membership list of about 13,750. However, she is inspired by the fact that “Precious”, a “little” independent film with an African-American cast and director, has achieved six Oscar nominations! She hopes that this reality will motivate and encourage other emerging writers, directors, producers, editors, and actors of colour to tell their own stories and reflect their own truths so they too will be seen and heard.

Credibility of approaching Ethiopian Election Questionable

Aklilu Wendaferew strongly believes that Canada should devise its own action plan with regards to the upcoming election in Ethiopia. Canada should be a leader not a follower in advocating for human and political rights in any part of the world, including Ethiopia. This opinion is in response to the U.S. – based Carter Centre’s announcement that it will not send election observers and the EU’s anticipated decision shortly in this regard.

Featured Voices Blog

Community organizer and Project Coordinator of the I Vote Toronto Campaign Desmond Cole is thinking of pulling all of his money out of the bank. Find out why.

Impacting Public Policy

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:59 +0000

with Benjamin Perrin, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia

Why do important ideas to improve public policy seem to rarely get implemented? Is signing another petition going to achieve the results you want to see? Free and democratic societies need the active and vigorous participation of individuals and non-governmental organizations in order to thrive. We all benefit from greater involvement by civil society in the public arena of ideas in an increasingly digital world. Most of us have experienced the fact that impacting public policy requires more than just a passion for a cause and good research.

Five Good Ideas

Building coalitions of people with diverse backgrounds
Identifying champions and opinion leaders
Developing an effective online presence
Focused media and communications strategies
Being prepared to act at key moments of change

Resources

The Art of Possible (a handbook for political activism),
Amanda Sussman, 2007 McClelland & Stewart
What is Policy?, Sherri Torjman. Ottawa: Caledon Institute
of Social Policy, 2005.
Memorandum To Cabinet (Templates) by Privy Council Office, Government of Canada.
Writing for Government: How to Write a Briefing Note, Susan Doyle, University of Victoria.
Taking It to Hill Complete Guide, David Mcinnes, University of Ottawa Press

Benjamin Perrin

Benjamin Perrin is Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Law and a Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. His teaching and research interests include domestic and international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and human trafficking.

A member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Professor Perrin served as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada, and was senior policy advisor to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. He was the assistant director of the Special Court for Sierra Leone legal clinic which assists the Trial and Appeals Chambers, and completed an internship in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Professor Perrin is also the founder of The Future Group, and he served as Executive Director of this non-governmental organization that combats human trafficking from 2000-2006, including leading its inaugural project in Cambodia.

The organization works with victims overseas, assists with the extraterritorial prosecution of offenders, and conducts public policy research on the issue. Professor Perrin was recently recognized as a “Hero in the Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery” by the U.S. Department of State. His book, supported by the Maytree Foundation, titled Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking, will be published by Penguin in October 2010.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

danielle — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:30:08 +0000

Best Practices Judges Panel, Institute for Canadian Citizenship, February 2010

From Insecurity to Prosperity: Practical Ideas for a Stronger Canada

Markus Stadelmann-Elder — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:03:42 +0000

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This publication is a must-read for policy makers and practitioners if you are interested in solutions that reduce poverty and promote a more prosperous and inclusive Canada.

From Insecurity to Prosperity: Practical Ideas for a Stronger Canada presents ideas that have been prepared by Maytree’s policy partners. The ideas cover issues such as employment insurance, caregiver benefits, community engagement, diversity in the arts, immigrant job training and refugee policy reform.

While economists are suggesting the worst of the recession is behind us, those of us in the nonprofit sector know that it will take much longer for the average Canadian to feel the effects of the recovery, and that many will continue to be excluded from the prosperity of our society. The recession revealed intolerable gaps in our social safety net and the challenges that newcomers, Aboriginals and others continue to face in Canada.

What is needed are good social policies to protect our most vulnerable during this transition, and a strategic investment in the skills and talents of all Canadians.

The ideas presented by Maytree’s partners move beyond analyzing theses problems to presenting solutions. Maytree’s partners believe, like us, in the power of public policy to transform our society and generate prosperity.

Download the full publication.

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Income Support and Social Security

The Caledon Institute of Social Policy

Policy Ideas to Provide Income and Support to Caregivers
Policy Ideas to Provide Supports for Parents and Children
Policy Ideas to Reform Disability Income and Supports
Policy Ideas to Ensure Income Security for Working-age Adults

Inclusion and Protection

Tamarack: An Institute for Community Engagement

Policy Ideas to Reduce Poverty

Workers’ Action Centre

Policy Ideas for Fair Workplaces

Diaspora Dialogues Charitable Society

Policy Ideas for Diversifying the Arts

Immigration and Integration

Immigration Policy at Maytree

Policy Ideas to Reform Immigration

Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC)

Policy Ideas for Skilled Immigrants and Local Economies

Refugee Forum

Policy Ideas to Reform the Refugee System

Fareen Jamal

danielle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:49:24 +0000

Access for Parents and Children in Ontario (APCO), February 2010

Patsy Russell

danielle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:23:21 +0000

Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre, February 2010

Wychwood Open Door

danielle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:16:30 +0000

Wychwood Open Door is a day-time drop-in centre for homeless and socially isolated people that operates in the St. Clair West community. They care currently looking for a Treasurer and 4 board members with a range of skills and expertise.

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Application deadline for the 4 board positions March 14, 2010.
Application deadline for the Treasurer position: March 19, 2010.