Engaging mental health in on the land programs: How Supporting Wellbeing answered a need in their community
Watch our full interview with Supporting Wellbeing Project Director, Rachel Cluderay. “I love sharing the origin story of our project because it demonstrates that this exists because community asked it to exist,” said Rachel Cluderay, Supporting Wellbeing Project Director. “It comes completely out of community need, and not us imposing this program on people.” […]
Here’s what you need to know about CRA’s qualified donee status
Last week, the Northern Manitoba Food Culture and Community Collaborative (NMFCCC) hosted a webinar to share learnings about qualified donee status, how to register with the CRA, and creating pathways to access charitable dollars. In 2014, the Government of Canada changed some of their guidelines regulating how charitable organizations could deliver money. Under the new […]
Pacific communities: Beacons of hope in the face of climate crisis
Greta Thunberg stood at the podium and captivated the world as she addressed the climate crisis at the 2019 United Nations Global Climate Summit in New York last month. There was no mincing of words. “You have stolen my dreams and childhood with your empty words… We are in the beginning of a mass extinction […]
Cooperation or Bust: Lessons to carry with us as we march for the future of our planet
Climate change discussions are becoming more urgent and we are witnessing more of its effects. In this blog post, Tides Canada’s Benjamin Ger reflects on Vancouver’s recent climate demonstrations and lessons learned as we work towards a healthier environment. — As I walked through Vancouver’s crowded downtown, over shut-down bridges and by trucks honking in […]
The Story from Hear. Right here: Tides Canada supports Indigenous media makers to attend podcast workshop
The Story from Hear is a 5-day creative retreat and podcast workshop on the power of sound, listening, and place-based storytelling. The workshop takes place at the Hollyhock Retreat Centre on the traditional territories of the Klahoose, Tla’amin, and Homalco Nations. During the workshop, participants deepen their listening and audio storytelling skills in a supportive […]
A Different Paradigm of Leading*
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”] *This blog post was originally published on ckx.org on September 17, 2019. Our relationships with each other and with the earth are dangerously off-balance. We know this. We are on the edge of a precipice with the climate crisis, deepening inequity and political and economic volatility, which we are witnessing and experiencing here […]
Catching up with ArtBridges: A new chapter begins for former shared platform project
In December of 2018, after 10 years on Tides Canada’s shared platform, ArtBridges began a new chapter. We sat down with Co-founder and Director Seanna Connell to talk about the project’s growth over the past decade, the decision to transition to a National Arts Service Organization, and the bright future ahead. Since ArtBridges left our […]
Towards a reconciliation economy: How Raven Indigenous Capital Partners is helping Indigenous entrepreneurs succeed
Tides Canada recently kicked off the first presentation of a new Lunch and Learn series where we heard from Canada’s first Indigenous-led and -owned social finance intermediary, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners (RICP). The managing partners Jeffrey Cyr, Paul Lacerte, and Stephen Nairne greeted and introduced themselves to the team before providing insight into RICP ’s […]
Indigenomics 2019: The role of the philanthropic sector in the 100 billion dollar Indigenous economy
“What we’ve learned over the years, and are continuing to learn, is there is an incredible diversity among the Indigenous communities that we work with, so any ‘one size fits all’ philanthropic approach is not effective.” Chris Little, our Director of Finance, shared this and other lessons on the final day of the Indigenomics conference […]
Interview with Ben Scott, Project Director of EntrepreNorth
We sat down with EntrepreNorth’s Project Director, Ben Scott, to talk about the launch of the project and the first cohort of northern entrepreneurs.
