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Shared platform project spotlight: Project Neutral
September 22, 2020
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 …
Cohort X forges a new approach to leadership
September 17, 2020
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, …
Building trust, growing together: an update from UpSocial Canada
September 10, 2020
Earlier this summer, we heard from Geraldine Cahill, Director of UpSocial Canada, about the initiative’s work to collectively look after Toronto-based community organizations, and how that work has been shaped by COVID-19. As mid-September looms around the corner, she gives us …
Indigenous Response in the Canadian Arctic: Investing in culture and communities
July 10, 2020
Across the globe, we have all been forced to make changes in our lives, to pause and reflect. Many plagues have passed the earth, yet the COVID-19 pandemic is the first experienced by our generation, on such a grand scale. …
UpSocial Canada’s Geraldine Cahill talks jumping in while locking down
July 2, 2020
Remember March 1, 2020? The world felt very different then. On that day, we officially launched our UpSocial Canada Caring Communities Challenge, extending an invitation to Toronto-based community organizations to join us in exploring how we might collectively look after …