This is one of the ways I fill my 'community bucket' - by volunteering at the Ottawa Community Foundation, on the board, the Grants Committee and the Impact Investing Committee.
If you are not familiar - OCF is your community impact broker, helping to bring together so many parts of Ottawa, to pool together our funds and use that to re-invest in our community.
We connect people looking for ways to invest their funds for the good of the community (donors), with local nonprofits/charities (service providers) serving those who can really use that investment (community members or causes). And the causes we support are driven by what's needed and what's important to the people who make up our city - so range from social services to health to education to arts and culture to heritage to environment to animal rights.
I love volunteering here because it helps me feel connected to the heartbeat of Ottawa across all of our diversity - from grassroots local community groups to donors and funders to business leaders to policy makers.
As individuals we are each plugged into to different parts of our city, geographically or sectorally or demographically.
But here, we are all united through our common interest in making our city a better place for everyone.
So here's a little window into the amazing work that's happening in our city everyday, thanks to all these different folks coming together, each doing our part, to lift each other up.
Grant Jameson Susan Scotti Carol Devenny FCPA, FCA, CBV, ICD.D Susan St. Amand, TEP, FEA, ICD.D Tracey Clark Simon Kennedy Tim Redpath Michael Maidment Grace Xin Tais McNeill Rebecca Aird
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Did you catch this past weekend's episode of Sam Laprade's An Hour To Give on RogersTV?
The OCF's very own Senior Associate of Community Engagement, Tais McNeill, along with guests from the Ottawa Tool Library, Ottawa Arts Council and Arts Network Ottawa / Réseau des arts d'Ottawa, Britannia Woods Community House, and Soul Space Ottawa spoke with Sam about the Community Services Recovery Fund and the important work they do to support the community. Watch online now or the replay on RogersTV this week Tues-Thurs @ 10am! 🕒 https://loom.ly/2wfQ9bQ
An Hour To Give : Ottawa Community Foundation
Congratulations, Hillwood Communities!