HR is a challenge. You didn’t come to social impact work to do HR. HR is hard to fund. Oh, and you’re supposed to just "be glad you get to do work you like"
HR is also an opportunity to bring your mission to life. You can be the giant upon whose shoulders others stand.
This June, something big is building from coast to coast to coast. Communities are gathering. Stories are surfacing. And the wave is just getting started.
Stay tuned... you won't want to miss this.
June 1-8 🌊
#OceanWeekCanada #COLC #HealthyOceanHealthyPeople
Ce juin, quelque chose de grand se prépare d'un océan à l'autre. Les communautés se mobilisent. Les histoires remontent à la surface. Et la vague ne fait que commencer.
Restez à l'affût... vous ne voudrez pas manquer ça.
1-8 juin 🌊
#SemaineDeLOcéanCanada #CCCO #ActionClimatiqueOcéanique
🚨We've extended the deadline to April 8🚨
Apply today, and please share this posting!
#Climate #Ottawa #ClimateAction #OttCity #Environment
🚨Nous avons repoussé la date limite au 8 avril 🚨
Postulez dès aujourd'hui et SVP partager cette annonce !
#Climat #Ottawa #ActionClimatique #OttCity #Environnement
When it comes to managing a communications campaign, we love the leaky bucket analogy. Look for leaks in reach, attraction, action, and loyalty and improve your communications each step of the way.
We did a quick scan and found webinars from/ featuring most of the Canadian nonprofit partners we know.
If you’ve shared webinar links thinking only your attendees would see, you might be surprised to discover your meeting is public.
The transition to manager is one of the biggest shifts in your professional life. You go from being someone who does things to someone who enables other people to do things.
From grief to lack of confidence to a loss of control, the change can be dizzying. Here's how (and why) to stick with it.
Across millennia, human intelligence has evolved not simply through logic or invention, but through connection. Our ancestors survived not because they computed faster, but because they cooperated better.
Most of the work happening in freshwater is underpinned by groups like DataStream:
datastream.org/en-ca/
They are THE platform for freshwater data in Canada.
Follow @datastream.org
Water Rangers waterrangers.com and their Watershed Reports watershedreports.ca are at the forefront of community monitoring and data sharing in Canada.
If you want to know how your local waters are doing, these folks are your folks:
Follow @waterrangers.bsky.social
Lake Winnipeg Foundation's new Phosphorus Explorer showcases 10 years of community monitoring.
The project is helping to track water quality trends, identify pollution sources, and help people find solutions that will protect Lake Winnipeg.
phosphorusexplorer.ca
Follow @savelakewpg.bsky.social
Open data is key for accountability, collaboration and innovation. Those are good things we want in society!
So let's celebrate some of our partners whose commitment to water quality monitoring, data sharing, and data analysis are helping to protect freshwater in Canada.
Open Data Day logo
It's Open Data Day!
Open data is machine-readable, freely shared, and doesn't come with restrictions.
Openness is especially important for government data and for researchers who want their data to shape policy and public life.
#ODD26 #OpenDataDay2026
Découvrez les réussites communautaires dans la région des Grands Lacs lors de ce webinaire @ijcsharedwaters.bsky.social, avec @waterrangers.bsky.social et @uwaterloo.ca.
Le 25 mars à 11 h 30 HNE : ijc.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Learn about Great Lakes community success stories in this @ijcsharedwaters.bsky.social webinar, featuring @waterrangers.bsky.social & @uwaterloo.ca. Attendees will have time to share their stories and comments on Great Lakes protection.
March 25 11:30 EST: ijc.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...
It’s a big day for our friends @savelakewpg.bsky.social, gathering to mark a decade of community based monitoring with partners and friends from around the region.
What better way to honour the effort than with a new data platform and visualizations!
(Spoken like the data fans we are.)
Your mission describes what you’re building, but it’s your craft that demonstrates how you’re building it.
If you think of social impact work as craft, it shifts your perspective on skills, challenges, and importance. It also helps you understand your place in history.
Latest from The Organizer:
The world changes because we change it, not by accident and not by magic.
Social change depends on people doing good work well. From the way we diagnose problems to the solutions we devise, every aspect of this work requires a combination of insight, effort, resources, and skills.
It’s #NonprofitAppreciationWeek. Time to recognize the role nonprofit organizations play in our lives.
From health to education to social services to accountable governments, nonprofit efforts have made every minute of every day safer, healthier, happier than it otherwise would be. Thank you.
The word "community" can mean a lot of different things in nonprofit land.
This post from Tasha Van Vlack at Nonprofit Hive offers a helpful summary of the most popular uses + hints about what your use means for your strategy.
If you’ve been putting off impact measurement because it looks complicated and time consuming, here’s a different, simpler approach:
Start with one impact measure that reflects your goal. Then, repeat and report on that one metric over and over again.
That's it. That's all.
#impactmeasurement
The old saying is true: you need to spend money to make money. The trouble is, it’s not always clear how much money you need to spend.
If your nonprofit is struggling to make a fundraising budget, two simple numbers can help.
Calling all Canadians!
@cira.ca has grants for your project:
"Each year CIRA invests over a million dollars…CIRA Net Good Grants empower organizations across the country to do the critical work to close Canada's digital divides in connectivity, online safety & internet policy.
www.cira.ca/en/grants/
Join the CIRA team at @podcamptoronto.bsky.social!
There’s a reason Pixar and other creatives tell great stories: structure. Specifically, a structure called the Story Spine. You can use it, too.
Read more in The Organizer: www.entremission.com/2022/12/stor...
Skip straight to the worksheet: www.entremission.com/wp-content/u...
Once upon a time, a nonprofit struggled to make its work memorable.
Day after day, they tried to gain attention. But lists of facts, cold data, flowery mission statements, and abstract ideas failed to win hearts.
Then one day, they learned the Story Spine.
Suddenly, their impact came alive.
An insider's take on how to influence the US Supreme Court.
Lessons:
- Sometimes the audience for your communications strategy can be as small as 6 people.
- It can take years to earn the trust of your audience
- These donors probably never asked for quarterly measurable impacts
La Consultation Populaire sur l’IA a lancée aujourd'hui au Canada.
Cette initiative de la société civile vise à faire progresser le droit, les politiques et la réglementation en matière d’IA axée sur les droits de la personne et l’intérêt public.
Participez ici: www.consultationpopulairesurlia.ca
The People’s Consultation on AI launches today, a collaborative civil society initiative created in response to the federal government’s failure to provide a meaningful consultation process during the development of a national AI strategy in 2025.
Participate here: www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca