During COVID, some non-profit organizations have had to scale quickly to meet spikes in demand. Quick growth brings stressors and challenges, and needs to be managed differently. Here’s how Soap for Hope Canada scaled, and strategies organizations facing fast growth can apply.
What if non-profits could leapfrog over early start-up pains and acquire businesses instead? What pathways and conditions for success are needed for this to work? Scale Collaborative, in partnership with four BC communities is exploring new non-profit acquisition and business ownership possibilities.
As the non-profit sector experiences broad and long-lasting impacts in the face of COVID and struggles for survival, their ability to ‘do and advocate’ is significantly reduced. Foundations are needed here, right now. Here are some ideas for foundations to think about.
We need a Minister. Not only in response to this year’s crisis and other urgent issues that arise, but also longer term, as an opportunity for Canada to build new ways to drive innovation in the social sector and ensure its vitality.
The non-profits sector is unique, requiring thought through and targeted responses to COVID-19. Sector survival is at stake. Let’s ensure the sector continues to provide services to community and comes out the other side validated, appreciated and ready to face new challenges.
To us, Social Purpose Real Estate means reinventing development in our neighborhoods and communities. In the summer of 2017 Lee Herrin, Director at Scale Collaborative talked about the transformative power of revenue diversification as a part of TedX at Royal Roads University.
Denise Taschereau, the CEO & Co-Founder of Fairware, worked with other B Corp business leaders to help build a Climate Strike Mobilization Toolkit. We encourage all and any business leaders to use the kit and to take a stand in your communities.
In the first session of Thriving Non Profits, participants unpack their limiting beliefs about money. The recent module 1 discussion brought out the critical importance of language: to note where it is holding us back and where it can leap us forward.
Today's challenges are complex and multi-dimensional and require new approaches and adequate resources to make a dent, let alone provide scalable solutions. Grants and funding do not provide near the resources required. Written by: Kristi Fairholm Mader | Director, Innovation and Initiatives,
City of Victoria, on behalf of the CCSPI Steering Committee, is pleased to announce it has awarded a two-year contract to Scale Collaborative, Vancouver Island Construction Association, Buy Social Canada, and Presentations Plus to incubate a two-year Social Procurement Hub for CCSPI.
