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Q & A: How do we get policy makers to support our ideas?
After the Impact-Ability Webinar last week with Ben Weinlick, one of the participants asked a really interesting question to which Ben sent back a thoughtful response. One of the big challenges with […]
Read MoreThe Social Finance Deal that Keeps on Giving
Take two geniuses. The one, Bob Williams, who many consider to be the “social, environmental and economic architect” of modern British Columbia. The other, internationally renowned architect, Bing Thom. Present them with a high-rise …
Read MoreIMPACT-Ability Webinar with Ben Weinlick: Recap
On November 14, Al Etmanski and Vickie Cammack had the pleasure of talking with Ben Weinlick about Setting the Table for Allies, Adversaries, and Strangers for the third part of our IMPACT-Ability Webinar […]
Read MoreMeditations for Mindful Impact
What worked in the past won’t necessarily work in the present. What works in the present won’t necessarily work in the future. What will work in the future depends on the past. EH! An obsession …
Read MoreIMPACT-Ability Webinar with Lynda Kahn & Jack Pearpoint: Recap
By Bronwyn Kent “Change is going to come from the margins, from people who have been labeled and who have been discriminated against” – Jack Pearpoint On November 1st, we […]
Read MoreI See Your Margaret Mead and Raise you Ten.
That’s a quote from a recent Margaret Atwood interview. She then went on to propose a qualifier to that famous Margaret Mead quote. You know the one “Never doubt that a small group of …
Read MoreThe Importance of Creating a Container for Your Content
By Vickie Cammack and Al Etmanski Imagine a cloud of concepts, requests, emotions, ideas, values, outrage, research, vision, impulses and ideology swirling around you on your change-making journey. The listener or […]
Read MoreIMPACT-Ability Webinar with Minister Carla Qualtrough: Recap
By Bronwyn Kent On Monday, October 24, Plan Institute and Tamarack Institute kicked off the first of a seven-part IMPACT-Ability Webinar Series based on Al Etmanski’s best selling book IMPACT: […]
Read MoreWhy and How it is Important for You to have a Will
By Halldor K. Bjarnason Lawyer, Access Law Group (Reposted from 2012) How would you feel if someone else was deciding who gets to keep your property, or who gets to care for your […]
Read MoreParents of disabled children face daunting financial preparation
Read original article here from the Globe and Mail As a mother of three children, including one with a severe developmental disability, Laurie Geschke admits that looking into the future […]
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