Did Cincinnati Effort Set New Precedent?  More than 600 Cincinnati residents from many different walks of life gathered this past weekend in the grand ballroom of the Millennium Hotel on Fifth Street West for a kind of conversation that guaranteed has never taken place at such a scale in this city before. Click to Read More |
More Churches Try Appreciative Inquiry  Could the approach save them?
When he first began bringing Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to congregations across the U.S. and Canada, Rob Voyle says he felt like a "voice crying in the wilderness," but more than 10 years later, he's much less alone. Click to Read More |
The Human Side of Sustainable Communities
What creates a sense of attachment to a place among residents?
When talking about sustainability at a community level, it can be easy to forget the human side of the equation while preoccupied with concepts like carbon reductions or clean energy development. Click to Read More |
Flatten the Hierarchy and Look Beyond Tasks for Culture Change
'Vision, education and implementation is critical,' in resident-centred care
Changing habits in long-term care can be a difficult prospect in the face of daily task lists, but a major component of culture change is thinking beyond just the tasks to a place where resident-centredness is the core of care philosophies. Click to Read More |
This Year's Social Enterprise Dragons
Biggest Yet
Corporate partners want to give back to their community, says ENP program co-ordinator
When Vancity Community Foundation and JDQ Systems founded an event to support social entrepreneurs four years ago they named it "When the Dragon's Away," to imagine what would happen if dragons, venture capitalists, left for-profit business and entered the realm of social enterprise. Click to Read More |
