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📢 Stay updated with all the latest news from CHAR Tech and Altech in our March newsletter! Click the link below to catch up on the latest updates, including details about our upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for April 4th. Link to March YES Express: https://lnkd.in/g6QApkty #YESExpress #Newsletter #CHAR #Update

🚌 Austin transportation, mobility, and non-profit friends! 💰 The Transit Empowerment Fund (https://lnkd.in/gEUAYmZj) is now accepting Letters of Interest (LOIs) for Planning and Demonstration Projects ($25,000-$75,000) 🚲 This is a great opportunity to test innovative mobility solutions that will make a meaningful impact on our community. ℹ Application details in the link --let me know if you have any questions. The Transit Empowerment Fund (TEF) invites local non-profits and government entities to submit letters of interest for planning or demonstration projects designed to address mobility and transportation gaps for low-income populations within the CapMetro Service area. The Board is interested in learning about projects that: (1) address a demonstrated need in the community; (2) leverage existing resources or partnerships efficiently; (3) support or leverage environmentally efficient modes of transportation such as shared rides, public transit, or active modes; and (4) could be sustained through follow-on funding after the demonstration period. The Board will consider both planning and demonstration projects. https://lnkd.in/gppMU4ac

Learn how to make big data and health care approachable with Stephanie Spriggs, MALS and Ryan C. Smith of Center for Improving Value in Health Care. View/download their ComNet23 poster at the link below: #conference #communications #nonprofit #philanthropy #atlanta #comms4good #leadership #learning #community #leadershipdevelopment #storytelling

For those of you who missed our webinar highlighting findings from our report on Perceptions on Automated Interpreting, here is a replay. CSA Research conducted the study for the SAFE-AI Task Force. Thank you to MasterWord for providing ASL services. Read the full report https://lnkd.in/gQSwP7xW #InterpretingTrust #AICommunication #AI #GenAI #Interpreting #Languages #InterpretingSAFEAI #SafeAI #MarketResearch #CSAResearch

Just to say, I have posted my 6th blog about the path of evolution for the charity sector. This one is about the top 3 most important strategic changes for the Canadian Charity Sector. - Do you agree with them? - See below. https://www.giv3.ca/blog Typically, it is the role of the CEO of a company to determine the strategic direction and to identify the top 3 priorities which must be accomplished in the year. And then, most importantly, the CEO must focus their energy on helping the company achieve these three things without getting bogged down in the day-to-day operational challenges, staffing problems, client issues, finance, and so on.  If the company makes significant strides on the three chosen priorities, then the year has been useful. In a sense, this is about focus and simplifying the essence of what needs to be accomplished... "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” - - Hans Hofmann, abstract artist. With so many millions of Canadians in need, and a collapsing environment, what is necessary?  If we had a sector CEO and a sector strategic plan, I propose that the three most important initiatives to advance for the sector should be:  (1) Encourage greater generosity (in all forms). That is, bring in more resources (2) More staff in the sector to deliver charitable services. (3) improve efficiency in how charities perform. (I recognize that another key strategic issue would to reduce demand for charitable services, but I feel this is beyond the power of the charity sector. Reducing demands is on the shoulders of politicians via changes in labour codes, environmental laws, immigration policies, investment in productivity gains, better health care, and so on). And if there is any doubt, other important things like D.E.I., better data measurement, clarification of legal definitions of charity, better governance, trust, and so on, are secondary. To put this frankly, the homeless person living on the street is not co concerned about the governance, representation, measurement, and operations of the charity helping them to survive each day. They just need results. Please do not get me wrong. I recognize and appreciate the good work which many organizations are doing for these secondary initiatives. They are important. It is just that these are not the most important strategic priorities. It often feels to me our sector is prioritizing these secondary things while we are not doing enough for the biggest strategic issue: A growing charity gap. - I am not so sure we are “eliminating the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak”. In my search for a ‘sector strategic plan’, I concluded that we do not have one! And when I asked those who might know, they confirmed it. We need to develop a strategic plan to address the growing charity gap in Canada, and to optimize and guide our priorities. I will talk more about a sector strategic plan soon.

I've started a Substack to gather people who might be interested in how Trust Groups can form to improve adaptability in our changing culture and climate, or who find consciousness studies fascinating and would like to learn about the TSIPEX model of conscious relatedness (Triune Systems In Parallel EXchange) in the New Science of adaptive systems. It's early days, but materials will accumulate on TriquetraLife.substack.com, and fortnightly free Zoom discussions are starting.

Curious about how to help your nonprofit organization diagnose, support, lead and plan your nonprofit technology? Check out all of our upcoming “What The Tech webinars!” https://lnkd.in/dUHApr3u #webinar #nonprofit #education #technologytraining #nonprofitorganization

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Are you struggling to do your funding applications on your own, or lack the time? I have just had a demo from this newly launched platform, and at first glance it looks like a bit of a game changer. I am still exploring it, to see how we can best utilise it, but as they are putting on another free webinar for the sector, I wanted to highlight it and say that it is worth the time to look at it. https://lnkd.in/eF5gCRaY

"What are you hearing from others in the field?" "What resources should we know about for our staff and our grantees?" Hitting that special time of the fundraising season where I'm meeting with program officers almost every day of the week. It's really helpful to hear what's on their mind, what matters to their grantees, and how Candid can help those funders and their grantees deliver on mission. Candid's data (and staff!) power so many solutions for the sector. From finding grants, to vetting nonprofits, to free e-books! It's always worth repeating: go to Candid.org and see how you can get the information you need to do good.