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Atlantic Edition
February 2012
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This month our Ontario readers will be pleased to learn that we're hosting Tzeporah Berman on her new book This Crazy time next month. Also this month, a reminder about our diversity Project mini-grants.
All subscribers will want to read on for the latest from the HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector, the Charity Law Information Project, Blackbaud, Bridgespan, Pew and My Charity Connects.
Also … a very early heads-up that we will be celebrating our 15th anniversary at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on the evening of Thursday, September 13th. Please mark your calendars. It's never too early to book a party!
- Sustainability Network Forum: Tzeporah Berman On Her New Book This Crazy Time
- GreenHeroes: Video Clip of the Month
- News: HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector
- Free Webinars: My Charity Connects
- Announcement: National Training Program in Children's Environmental Health
- Resources: Charity Central's Road to Accountability
- Report Blackbaud Index on Charitable Giving
- Report: New study Offers New Insight into Motivation of Mobile Donors
- Resource: Receipting Kit for Charities from the Charity Law Information Project
- Report: The Donor-Grantee Trap: How Ineffective Collaboration Undermines Philanthropic Results for Society, and What Can Be Done About It
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Sustainability Network Forum: Tzeporah Berman On Her New Book This Crazy Time
Join us on Monday, March 26, from 5:30 – 7:00 PM at 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120, in Toronto for a thought provoking and entertaining discussion with one of Canada's most respected activists.
This Crazy Time is passionate, profound, inspiring and funny. Part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom – it offers a wryly honest, behind the scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet.
For almost 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been one of our most influential environmentalists. A founder of ForestEthics and currently Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director, she was instrumental in shaping the tactics and concerns of the modern environmental movement.
Presented in association with Environmental Defence, Greenpeace Canada, Randomhouse and the Centre for Social Innovation.
Free but please register by emailing rsvp@sustainabilitynetwork.ca specifying this event. |
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GreenHeroes: Video Clip of the Month
GreenHeroes, a Web/TV series produced by CineFocus Canada in association with TVO, tells the story of change – of how people improved their lives, what their tipping point moments were and how they overcome obstacles to on the road to becoming a GreenHero.
GreenHeroes.TV is featuring two GreenHeroes whose work relates to great events happening in Toronto this month:
Ian Clifford realized the impact his SUV and other cars were having on the environment and decided to create a solution. He founded ZENN Motor Company that creates emissions free, energy efficient transportation options. Ian’s story is a model for participants of the Smart Commute program of Toronto and Hamilton that helps commuters lower the environmental impact of their commute. Smart Commute is holding Carpool Week February 6-12. It is a great first step to greening your commute.
http://www.greenheroes.tv/webisode/4028489-Ian-Clifford
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) brought trees back to Kenya after environmental degradation adversely affected the basic living needs of the women who lived there. The GreenHeroes Wangari Maathai short film tells her story and will be featured in MINT, a monthly Toronto film festival, on February 24. To mark this exciting occasion, we will feature Wangari on our home page.
http://www.greenheroes.tv/webisode/3505199-Wangari-Maathai |
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News: HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector
The HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector Newsroom is where you can subscribe to their monthly newsletter (Perspectives) and view archived issues. There are also links to news headlines relating to current human resources dilemmas and innovations in Canada.
The HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector's website also includes a multitude of resources for employers, employees, volunteers, and students looking for experience working in the nonprofit sector.
Check it out at:
http://www.hrcouncil.ca/newsroom/overview.cfm |
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Free Webinars: My Charity Connects
Want to learn more about fundraising, social media and online technology? Check out any of these free online training sessions are available to everyone with an internet connection and speakers. Click on the session names below for more details and to register.
February 15 - Introduction to TechSoup Canada's Online Donations Program
February 29 - Get Social with your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events
March 14 - Essential Facebook Tips for Your Charity
March 28 - Being Social Inside and Out: Fostering a Culture of Sharing and Collaboration
April 11 - The Rules Around Tools
April 25 - Essential Twitter Tips for Your Charity
May 9 - Preparing for a Website Redesign
May 23 - Editorial Calendar Essentials: Organize and Plan Your Online Communications
June 27 - Elements of a Great YouTube Video
For more information or to register, visit:
http://mycharityconnects.org/webinars |
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Announcement: National Training Program in Children's Environmental Health
If you are a Canadian researcher, community advocate or policy thinker invested in improving children's environmental health in urban settings or your work includes a focus on the well being of lower-income or marginalized children and youth living in urban areas, check out the National Training Program in Children's Environmental Health
The Centre for Environmental Health Equity (CEHE), in collaboration with the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment (CPCHE) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), is calling for applications for a one-week national collaborative training program in children's environmental health. While research and knowledge of children's environmental health in urban setting is growing, there is little examination of how problems become prioritized, what social and historical mechanisms have led to present-day health problems, and what strategies are best suited to resolve them.
The goal of this national training program is to develop and nurture a deliberate Knowledge Mobilization Network that supports collaborative learning and relationship building among actors in research, policy and advocacy to address children's environmental inequity in urban settings.
Application deadline is March 30th 2012, 5pm CST.
Complete overview, program details, application instructions are available at:
http://www.cehe.ca/ceheproject |
6. Resources: Charity Central's Road to Accountability
Road to Accountability, a project of Charity Central in Edmonton, develops plain language resource materials and provides learning opportunities on accountability and transparency practices for registered charities and not-for-profit organizations. In addition to an accountability self-assessment, they have posted slide decks for three modules:
- Accountability - The Basics
- Accountability - Tools
- Transparency - The Basics
Check out these resources at:
http://www.charitycentral.ca/node/711 |
7. Report: Blackbaud Index on Charitable Giving
Blackbaud, Inc. recently announced that, according to their research, US fundraising has returned to pre-recession levels. Through the first 11 months of 2011, overall giving was up 3.4% over 2010, and is now officially above the level of giving last seen in 2007. It is important to note that while giving has increased, the increase is not uniform across all sub-sectors. However, most nonprofits saw greater stability and predictability in their 2011 fundraising than in the past few years.
Check out this 12 page report from January 2012 at:
https://www.blackbaud.com/files/resources/downloads/bbindex_report_january2012.pdf |
8. Report: New study Offers New Insight into Motivation of Mobile Donors
According to a new study on mobile giving by Pew Internet, 64% of American adults now use text messaging, and 9% have texted a charitable donation from their mobile phone. This in-depth study on mobile donors, which analyzed the Text to Haiti campaign after the 2010 earthquake, found that these contributions were often spur-of-the-moment decisions that spread virally through friend networks. Three quarters of these donors (73%) contributed using their phones on the same day they heard about the campaign, and a similar number (76%) said they typically make text message donations without conducting much research. Yet while their initial contribution often involved little deliberation, 43% of these donors encouraged their friends or family members to also give to the campaign. In addition, a majority of those surveyed (56%) have continued to give to more recent disaster relief efforts using their mobile phones.
Check out the full 25 page report, published in January 2012, at:
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/Real%20Time%20Charitable%20Giving.pdf |
9. Resource: Receipting Kit for Charities from the Charity Law Information Project
CLIP recently released a new Receipting Kit that outlines how charities should receipt and is accompanied by an index of Canada Revenue Agency's policies and guidance on receipting.
For a copy of this 25 page guide, visit:
http://capacitybuilders.ca/clip/documents/ReceiptingKit-ReceiptingGuide.pdf |
10. Report: The Donor-Grantee Trap: How Ineffective Collaboration Undermines Philanthropic Results for Society, and What Can Be Done About It
In an era of severe government cutbacks, modest economic growth, and escalating social needs, philanthropists and the nonprofits they support must get the absolute most from every scarce dollar they invest. A significant opportunity may lie in more effective donor-grantee collaboration. This guide for nonprofit leaders, their boards, and their donors explains three imperatives of effective collaboration—for which all parties must share responsibility—and highlights how better execution can increase the impact of limited resources.
Check out this 21 page report from October 2011 at:
http://www.bridgespan.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=28162 |
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