Monthly Archives: September 2014

Update on accessibility

By Anahita | Published: Sep 30 2014

by Jini Stolk The Air Canada Centre must be very sorry it didn’t accommodate a legally blind ticket buyer’s request for accessible seating at Stevie Wonder’s upcoming concert. The overwhelmingly bad PR for ACC and Ticketmaster highlighted just one of the reasons we want to stay well ahead of the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with […]

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Network (and other) leadership for change

By Anahita | Published: Sep 30 2014

by Jini Stolk I was delighted to be asked to do a 5×5 presentation for the recent Ontario Nonprofit Network conference , although summing up the qualities of successful Network Leadership in five minutes and five slides was a bit daunting. Basically, I said (with many thanks to June Holley’s superb Network Weaver and Liz […]

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Engaging your board – some great ideas

By Anahita | Published: Sep 30 2014

by Shana Hillman General Manager of Kaeja d’Dance and Executive Producer of inDANCE, and former guru of programs at Creative Trust, Shana Hillman reports back on Maytree’s September 22nd Five Good Ideas session on Engaging your Board Effectively, led by Robin Cardozo in conversation with Jehad Aliweiwi, Earl Miller, and Jini Stolk. Jini has written […]

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Questions

By Anahita | Published: Sep 30 2014

by Jini Stolk If Leonard Cohen can take up smoking again, can I have wine and cheese for dinner three nights a week? If Statistics Canada’s recent report on the relative economic impact of sports and culture shows that culture’s contribution to the GDP, share of the economy, and number of jobs is roughly 10 […]

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Crowdfunding: let the people decide

By Anahita | Published: Sep 04 2014

by Jini Stolk Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts launched a crowdfunding campaign this summer for a new city-wide ARTS APP –  an easy-to-use, on-the-go way of finding out who, what, where and when performances are happening. Good on them – I hope it works. Their initiative uses the Toronto Fringe’s fabulous Fund What You Can […]

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Engaging your board, effectively

By Anahita | Published: Sep 04 2014

by Jini Stolk If you haven’t registered for Maytree’s September 22nd Five Good Ideas session on Engaging your Board Effectively – led by Robin Cardozo, Chief Operating Officer of SickKids Foundation, in conversation with Jehad Aliweiwi, Executive Director, Laidlaw Foundation; Earl Miller, Board President, West Neighbourhood House; and myself, as Chair of the Ontario Nonprofit Network […]

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Relating to our relational fundraisers

By Anahita | Published: Sep 04 2014

by Jini Stolk Hiring again? An edition of Philanthropic Trends Quarterly which I’ve been rereading deals with retention and turnover of fundraising staff as an ongoing challenge for many nonprofit organizations. And don’t we know it. It points to a national study of nonprofit fundraising in the U.S. by CompassPoint funded by the Evelyn and […]

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In cod we trust

By Anahita | Published: Sep 04 2014

by Jini Stolk Newfoundland is enchanting and otherworldly. When you’re there you feel instinctively that you’re at the farthest edge of the continent, far from Muskoka, the Rockies, the Prairies, Toronto. You’re on an island, almost certainly on the sea – whose power and vast expanse is both appealing and unsettling. The weather is a […]

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