Report on the Community Boards in Action Project – August 2014
New ground has been broken through the successful implementation of the Community Boards in Action project. A report on this project follows. Our thanks to the Vancouver Foundation and …
Community agencies are facing “increasingly complex social challenges,” according to a report written by Mayor Richard Walton. On May 26th North Vancouver District Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling on the Premeir to begin a consultation process leading …
Vice Chair Leslie Welin Reports –
“We want a province where every individual and every community can achieve to their highest potential.” With those words, Board Voice chair, Michael Davis, launched the board into a two day session to plan …
April has been a very positive month with the Board Impact Forum: The Influence and The Issues held in Kelowna on April 14 and the call for a BC Social Policy Framework gathering momentum.
The early part of the …
April 3, 2014 For Immediate Release:
Board Voice has collaborated with a number of Central Okanagan organizations to bring boards together to disucss issues of concern in the Region. In particular, the upcoming Board Impact Forum will explore the Influence …
Imagine Canada is an umbrella organization for Canada’s charities and non-profit organizations (or Community Benefit organizations as I like to think of them).
They have been working in partnership with others to “start a New Narrative – a conversation with …
We have a total of 28 community social service organizations signed onto the There is a Better Way call to action. If your board has not signed on yet, please ask them to consider it.
We are working with …
TED Talks opens in Vancouver this week and they are all about Big Ideas!
In this TED Talk video, Dan Pallotta turns our thinking about charity assessment, fundraising and ‘admin costs’ on its head.
Dan Pallotta is best known …
Hello all,
The past month has seen some extraordinary strides on the Social Policy Framework: two municipalities have passed resolutions calling on the provincial government to begin a process to create a SPF.
We are working hard to keep this …
BoardVoice has approved one more Community Boards in Action Grant, this one in Kamloops.
The Kamloops Non-Profit Community Social Plan will develop a non-profit sector social plan, enhancing the strength of the non-profit sector as a voice for the populations …
