Governance ‘BootCamp’ helping out Fort McMurray
The road to recovery can be a long one, just ask the people who operate within the social profit sector of Fort McMurray. More than a year and a half after a devastating wildfire shook that northern Alberta city to its core, numerous organizations continue to rebuild in an effort to ensure the needs of […]
Capacity board members heading to Fort McMurray
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WATERLOO REGION – October 17, 2017 – Members of Capacity Canada’s board of directors are taking a trip this week to Fort McMurray, Alta., to participate in the national charity’s Board Governance BootCamp for Social Profits in that community, which continues to recover after a devastating wildfire last year. The three-day BootCamp, […]
‘CreateAthon’ taking creativity coast-to-coast
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WATERLOO REGION – October 16, 2017– Capacity Canada is partnering with Alchemy Systems and Manulife at its 2017 CreateAthon to provide 18 non-profit organizations across Canada with free design-and-marketing/rebranding expertise in a 24-hour creative ‘blitz’ beginning the morning of Thursday, Oct. 19. CreateAthon, which takes place at Alchemy’s Guelph office, will see […]
Cat rescue a ‘purrfect’ match for Manulife executive
Michael D’Aprile is very comfortable with numbers and cats. So, when the busy Manulife actuary was looking for a way to give something back to his community, Capacity Canada’s successful MatchBoard program was there to help. With guidance from Don McDermott, a MatchBoard facilitator with Capacity Canada, D’Aprile was ‘matched’ with Toronto Cat Rescue (TCR) […]
Manulife executive helps out close to home
Responding to an advertisement posted on an internal website at her workplace promoting Capacity Canada’s MatchBoard program changed Olga Gappasova’s life. Getting involved in the program, which pairs employees from major corporations to volunteer positions on the boards of charitable non-profit organizations, lead the Manulife executive to the Central West Specialized Developmental Services (CWSDS) in […]
CreateAthon: creating on a national scale
Luke Baulk says he is already formulating his plan to participate in the upcoming 2017 CreateAthon Waterloo-Wellington, which for the first time is taking on a national scope. Baulk, a third-year graphic design student at Conestoga College in Kitchener, will join approximately 50 of his counterparts Oct. 19-20 at Alchemy Systems in Guelph in the […]
Capacity Canada announces new partnership to strengthen communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WATERLOO REGION – July 20, 2017 – Capacity Canada today announced a new partnership with the Suncor Energy Foundation for a unique program that aims to create strong, sustainable communities in Canada by strengthening the social profit sector. The Fueling Social Innovation program will help not-for-profit organizations build capacity in five Canadian […]
CASL’s Private Right of Action Suspended Indefinitely
David Young On Thursday, June 7, the federal government suspended indefinitely the private right of action (“PRA”) under CASL (Canada’s Anti Spam Law), originally scheduled to come into effect July 1, 2017. The government indicated that the provision would be reviewed and potentially amended by the parliamentary committee tasked to conduct the three-year review of […]
Changing mindsets: EvalU BootCamp Waterloo
Overwhelming. Haphazard. Afterthought. These were just a few of the terms participants in Capacity Canada’s latest EvalU BootCamp tossed around to express their current feelings about the process of evaluation at the start of the day and a half event held June 6-7 at the charity’s home base in Waterloo. Alison Sims, president of the K-W […]
Vice President of Education – Indspire
Indspire is an Indigenous-led registered charity that invests in the education of Indigenous people for the long-term benefit of these individuals, their families, their communities, and Canada. Indspire’s vision is to enrich Canada through Indigenous education and by inspiring achievement. They accomplish this with the support of their partners and by means of various programs, […]
