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Reflections on Trust-Based Philanthropy
Our COO & Program Director, Amanda Mayer, was invited to provide a commentary on a webinar on "Trust-Based Philanthropy" organized by Philanthropic Foundations Canada and Community Foundations of Canada. Here are her reflections from the dialogue. (version...
Making Change: Public Policy and the Opportunities for the NGO Sector
Over the holidays I was talking with my 18-year-old son about the consequences of climate change. He stopped me in my tracks when he asked the deceptively simple question: “Why do we allow people and corporations to pollute? We should just tell them they can’t.” He...
Who gets the last word? Lessons learned from Kenjgewin Teg at M’Chigeeng First Nation
This past spring I had the opportunity to deliver a Forest and Nature School Practitioners’ Course in partnership with Kenjgewin Teg at M'Chigeeng First Nation, on Mnidoo Mnising Manitoulin Island. Leading up to this course we had been working with the Executive...
Living in a Good Way: Learning from Indigenous Teachings
The Lawson Foundation Guest Blog Series The Lawson Foundation is pleased to share the first blog post in our series authored by our grantees. It provides an opportunity for our grantees to share stories from the field, lessons learned, as well as put forward thought...
In search of those unusual suspects
Getting a better understanding of how you build local, national and international agendas focused on Early Childhood Education (ECE). Sharing experience and knowledge across borders. These were the focus and outcomes of the OECD’s first conference on early childhood...
Outdoor Play Lessons from the U.K. – Passionate people and the right to play
In June, I had the great fortune to spend three days in London, England hosted by Tim Gill to visit outdoor play programs and sites around the city and in nearby Bristol. I visited a breadth of children’s outdoor play opportunities including forest school, early...