March 2022 Edition

Capacity Canada is Growing!
 

Our team is growing! Capacity Canada is ecstatic to announce that Kazi Mitul Mahmud is the newest member to join our team. Mitul is joining as the Project Coordination and Communication Lead for our new project – Makeover: Women’s Leadership Co-Creation Studio: Advancing Equitable Nonprofit Sector Change – funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE).

A firm believer in social justice, Mitul has worked in the non-profit sector for eight years. Fighting for gender equality is at the core of her professional and personal life. Mitul has published several policy briefs for the G20 and many leading non-profit organizations in Bangladesh on forced migration and women’s unaccounted work, respectively. An astute communicator and researcher, she has completed her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London and holds an MBA in Marketing and a PGD in Educational Leadership from a Bangladeshi university.

Mitul’s experience in project management and coordination, research, and advocacy campaigns will be an excellent addition to our Makeover Project. We are excited to have Mitul as part of our team and look forward to working with her!

Learn more about our project here.

Capacity Canada Presents Emerging Governance Trends – Webinar Series for 2022

Starting April this year, Capacity Canada will be offering a new four-part webinar series – Emerging Governance Trends Webinar Series 2022 – to prepare you and your board for success. Tailored to prospective, new, and experienced non-profit board members, executive directors,

CEOs and corporate partners, Capacity Canada’s 90-minute workshops on post-pandemic governance trends and strategies are an ideal way for you to meet your professional development goal.

Registration is $150 for each workshop. Save $50 if you register for all four workshops. (This deal expires on April 8th) Class size is limited. An educational digital certificate will be issued when you complete the four webinars.

This series includes: 

• Post-Pandemic Reality: April 21, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, presented by Fred Galloway.
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Part 1): June 23, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, presented by Sandra Hanmer.
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion – Making It Happen (Part 2): September 22, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, presented by Sandra Hanmer.
• Building a High-Performing Board – Board Recruitment and Retention: November 10, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, presented by Marion Thomson-Howell.

  For more information, visit our website.

Applications open for Apprenticeship Program – Resilient and Diverse Communities By Design
 

With the generous support of the Suncor Energy Foundation, Capacity Canada is offering an Apprenticeship Program to build capacity in the practice of human-centred design within the social good sector. The selected individuals will participate in a nine-month paid Apprenticeship Program focused on learning about and applying design thinking to address complex issues in the social good sector.

The apprenticeship experience will involve formal educational sessions to learn about the process and tools of human-centred design and coaching and mentoring in applying them to address a specific challenge or opportunity for an organization in the sector. The desire is to have the apprentices be nominated or co-sponsored by organizations that would have a project that their affiliated apprentice would work on during the Program.

People from under-represented groups are encouraged to apply as we feel the spirit of human-centred design is well suited to addressing many of the challenges faced by these communities. Learn more about the program and how you could apply on our website.

Free Webinar – HR Compliance for Directors: Protecting Yourself from Personal Liability

Those who join as directors of non-profit organizations seldom realize that they risk personal liability when they agree to join a volunteer board of directors. Directors of non-profit boards across Canada may have personal liability for non-compliance with some specific employment laws. This risk, however, is easily managed. But one needs to understand their liability and what their organization needs to do to comply with the laws.

The upcoming free webinar – Protecting Yourself from Personal Liability: HR Compliance for Directors – offered by Gayle Wadden and Lesha Vanderbij of Compliance Works Inc. will provide insight into these liability risks, how to manage them, and protect yourself.

To register for the webinar, please click here.

Celebrating Women’s History Month  

The month of March every year marks the beginning of Women’s History Month. It’s a time to celebrate the strong, brave women who have broken down barriers and made crucial contributions to our society. The 2022 theme is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” This theme is “both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.”

At Capacity Canada, we believe that it is important to provide platforms that amplify women’s voices. We take pride in working with our team that comprises of 21 women and 12 men from diverse backgrounds. Our new project – Makeover: Women’s Leadership Co-Creation Studio: Advancing Equitable Nonprofit Sector Change funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) – will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Capacity Canada will achieve this by addressing systemic barriers to women’s underrepresented participation within both services’ delivery leadership and governance roles of non-profit organizations.

Learn more about Women’s History Month here.

Support Capacity Canada

Each year, we help non-profits from all across Canada with Board Governance training. We are always grateful for our non-profit partners, community leaders, and their support, and even more so now with the ongoing pandemic. Your financial support will help Capacity Canada bring together the ideas, people, and resources that fuel social innovation.