AT A GLANCE
ED&I & Board Development Opportunities
- ABME Board Development Training - Save the date for June!
- Book the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion training and support program for organizations via email
Important Sector Information
- ADDRESSING THE “GREAT RESIGNATION” - How can you support your managers and employees
- Help improve GoA Community Engagement Branch’s communications for non-profits and
charitable organizations
- Let us know how Volunteer Lethbridge can support your organization better - 15-minute survey
Workshop & Events
- Learn more about Strategic Risks for Nonprofits on March 16
- Join us for Volunteer Lethbridge Annual General Meeting on March 30th
- Don't forget to nominate a volunteer for the 2022 Volunteer Celebration Gala
- Making Our Community a Better Place - Join us at this event on March 17
Monthly Celebrations
- Celebrating Youth in Action
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ED&I & Board Development Opportunities
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SAVE THE DATE - JUNE 4 & 11 for the next ABME board development training!
ABME is a multi-part training program that combines online learning with live workshops to give new and developing board members the tools to successfully serve on a non-profit board.
ABME helps build the foundational layer of learning in order to be an effective board member.
ABME supports your growth in understanding non-profits – not just from the lens of your organization but how you and your organization play a role in the larger social sector ecosystem.
Registration and more info to follow. For more events like this, check out this website: https://ecvo.wildapricot.org/events
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Volunteer Lethbridge has developed a five module Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion training and support program to deliver to organizational Boards of Directors. The program comes with a participant handbook and two follow up opportunities with the subject matter expert to provide ongoing support in your effort to become more diverse, inclusive, and representative of the diversity of the community you serve.
Find out more here!
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Important Sector Information
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ADDRESSING THE “GREAT RESIGNATION”
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Does it feel like everyone is quitting their job these days? There is a lot of discussion on the “Great Resignation” backed up with statistics indicating that many are leaving their jobs in the US due to overwork and burnout. In Canada, there is a similar trend, with people leaving roles at all levels, as reported in a recent Financial Post article. The article refers to the LifeWorks and Deloitte Canada survey results that show “51% of managers are reporting that they are considering quitting, retiring or moving to a lesser role”.
It appears that employee engagement plays a role in retention. So if the levels of employee engagement are affected by the Manager, how can we support Managers? And how can Managers support their teams?
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Share your input to improve Alberta.ca content and communications for non-profits
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Did you know that the GoA’s Ministry of Culture and Status of Women has an entire Branch dedicated to building your organization’s human and financial capacity? The Community Engagement Branch delivers programs, resources, and services to help build a strong, educated, and collaborative non-profit sector. These include:
- Financial resources such as the Community Initiatives Program and Crowdfunding Alberta
- Facilitation and training services such as the board governance program
- Volunteer recognition programs such as Stars of Alberta
- And much more.
Completing the survey will take approximately 15 minutes. Your responses will be anonymous.
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Volunteer Lethbridge needs to hear from you!
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Our goal is to serve our community in a meaningful way, and that is why we're asking you, our community partners, how we can improve. Please help us obtain feedback on our organization's performance to help inform our priorities for the coming years.
Please fill in this 15-minute survey and be entered for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card.
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Engaging Risk Learning Series: Strategic Risk for Nonprofits - March 16 from 9 am - 12 pm
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Is your organization prepared to take strategic risks to advance its mission?
Strategic risks include operating without clearly defined strategic priorities, not examining assumptions underlying big decisions, and not attending to external trends and how they might affect your organization’s operations or funding. Risks of this nature are not managed by rules and policies, but through approaches designed to assess and reduce the probability of negative impacts and leverage opportunities for positive outcomes.
Designed for senior leaders and board members who have a solid understanding of the basics of risk management, this three-hour workshop includes latest sector-data, practical tools, and the opportunity to connect with other community leaders facing similar challenges.
Cost: $100, 3 hours instruction + resources & templates.A certificate of completion will be issued to all participants who attend the session in full.
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NOTICE: Volunteer Lethbridge Annual General Meeting
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Join us for our virtual Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, March 30th at 9am.
Please email office@volunteerlethbridge.com to receive the link.
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2022 Volunteer Celebration Gala
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Volunteer Lethbridge presents the 2022 Volunteer Celebration Gala. All community members and agencies are invited to nominate an individual or agency that has demonstrated leadership, inspiration, innovation, impact, and/or engagement in the Lethbridge community. Nominations are open March 1-30. Categories include Leaders of Tomorrow, Community Leaders, The Good Neighbour & Acts of Kindness, Community Inclusion, Lifetime Service, Volunteerism in Business. For more information view the nomination form, the webpage or contact Chelsea Eastman at communications@volunteerlethbridge.com.
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Making Our Community a Better Place - March 17
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Volunteer Lethbridge is presenting at the Making Our Community a Better Place event, hosted by the Lethbridge Interfaith Network on March 17th, and invites you to join.
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Celebrating Youth in Action
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Cleaning up the community: No ifs or ands, but some “butts”. If necessity is the mother of invention, then fluke might be its wacky, unpredictable aunt. Solutions to all sorts of problems have come from totally unrelated starting points, often simply by nurturing an impulse of curiosity and just seeing where things go. It’s as much about the process as it is the end result. Even if spontaneous inspiration does strike, acting on it can be daunting— especially if you’re young. The Community Foundation’s Youth in Action Granting Program was established by a donor as a way to encourage young people to ease those barriers and follow through on that inspiration. As two Lethbridge high school students discovered, it’s more than worth the risk to see it through.
It all started for Morteza Faraji and Steven Yang when they were kicking around ideas for a project for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) competition. To get into IGEM, explains Yang, “you have to make a pitch for a sustainability project that you can tackle using synthetic biology. My project pitch was cigarette butts and how you can degrade those.” Cigarette butts don’t break down naturally— they’re made mostly of plastic. As small as they are, they can cause serious damage to the environment, from the toxic chemicals they leach out or the chance that they might spark a wildfire, for instance. Numerous studies, including a few assessments of Lethbridge’s coulees, identify cigarette butts as the most common type of litter found.
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