Moving toward a regenerative economy: MakeWay team member Kim Hardy joins Integrated Capital Institute as a Fellow
Kim Hardy is Pacific Program Lead at MakeWay – she works with funders, changemakers, and innovators to amplify community driven solutions across British Columbia. Currently, Kim is a Fellow at Integrated Capital Institute, hosted by RSF Social Finance, where financial activists are leveraging capital as a tool for positive change. The curriculum is grounded in […]
Moose Hide Campaign: a movement to end violence against women and children
Violence against women and children and violence against the land are intertwined, says Moose Hide Campaign co-founder Raven Lacerte. At MakeWay, everything we do centers around a common goal of helping nature and communities thrive together, because we believe that interconnection is crucial. That’s why we want to take a moment this month to talk […]
MakeWay launches 2020 Year in Review
What an eventful year – the MakeWay 2020 Year in Review is now live! This year marks our 20th anniversary as an organization, and our first as MakeWay. We’re sharing community stories from coast to coast to coast, our grants list, our 60+ shared platform projects, and so much more.
Reframing social innovation through original ways of knowing and being: spotlight on Turtle Island Institute
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the last few months, we’ve been sitting down with our shared […]
20 reasons to celebrate: MakeWay turns 20!
Wow, time flies. It has been two decades since this organization began as a scrappy environmental non-profit working on conservation in the Great Bear Rainforest. Given that we can’t get together to dance and share stories of old times, we thought we would share 20 reasons to celebrate (because we all need some good news […]
Diverting waste and building community: Spotlight on Vancouver’s Binners’ Project
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the autumn, we’ve been sitting down with our shared platform projects […]
Inuit youth build self esteem and confidence through outdoor adventure: spotlight on Ayalik Project
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the next few months, we’re sitting down with our shared platform […]
Shared platform project spotlight: Western Arctic Youth Collective
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the next few months, we’re sitting down with our shared platform […]
Shared platform project spotlight: Project Neutral
Many grassroots and community-based initiatives struggle to drive real-world change while managing the demands of a stand alone charity. And so, MakeWay launched the shared platform model in Canada, one of the first of its kind. It takes a lot of hard work to create positive and lasting change. The precious time and energy available to […]
Cohort X forges a new approach to leadership
Six community leaders embodying a different paradigm of leading in the pursuit of climate and gender justice. This is the vision of Cohort X, a constellation of six community leaders coming together over the next nine months to reflect, engage, and learn from one another. The cohort will pursue a peer learning model, with support […]
