Jacqueline Novogratz: Investing for impact, empowering for change
It is a warm evening, early in the summer, and the Shopify offices are packed for the Toronto+Acumen event. Clean and modern, their aesthetic is matched by the young professionals who have flocked here, dressed to impress. While we sit, pecking at the bison meat...
Options For Homes: Tackling the Housing Problem
Toronto, Canada has a growing populous rich in culture and opportunity. Much like any other city, people from all walks of life seek accommodations within its many diverse neighbourhoods. But as the downtown core and surrounding municipalities expand in size - and...
Send in the Clowns: Using humour to tackle pain
The evening I watched a performance by Edu-Clowns for the first time, I was in a foul mood. I had spent the day summarizing a rather tragic story of a Tuberculosis patient afflicted with an extensively drug resistant strain of the disease. I had been working for an...
7 Steps To Choosing Your ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ (and we’re not talking re-modeling)
‘Kitchen Cabinets’ - everyone has them - or can have them. I am not talking about the physical shelving structures to store dishes or food. I am referring to a circle of your closest personal and professional advisors. They can yield tremendous influence in our...
The Furniture Bank: Turning Houses into Homes
The Furniture Bank is a tremendous social enterprise, with its Etobicoke location the largest office of its kind in North America. Working with social services and shelters across the GTA, the organization provides an often-overlooked leg-up to people in need....
Top Five Steps to Create Meaning and Purpose at Your Company
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman This is very true. Often I hear people say, “Oh, I wish I did something meaningful...
Converging Paths: Musical group bridges Israeli, Iranian divide
A few months ago, a delighted audience at the Alliance Francaise Theatre in Toronto was treated to a concert unlike any they had heard before. But it wasn't just the performance that struck a powerful chord. It was the players and their collaborative mission that...
Want to Be the Change? Build a Support System
From July 9 to 10 I’ll be attending Mentor Capital Network’s (MCN) Annual Gathering in New York City. This is an event that I look forward to and have attended each year since I became involved with MCN in 2011 as a contestant in their annual business plan...
Tracing a Million Footsteps at the Canadian Museum of Immigration – and finding my own
Her name was Aquitania. Born in Scotland and launched on April 21, 1913, the ocean liner was a beauty, boasting accommodations unlike any other found in the water at the time: walls decorated with portraits of Royalty and prints of English seaports, a smoking room...
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