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"May your trouble be less. And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door." –Irish Blessing
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AT A GLANCE
Important Sector Information
Workshop & Events
Monthly Celebrations
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Alberta Culture Days funding assistance is designed to support Alberta Culture Days activities, events and promotions that engage public participation and inspire future involvement.
Alberta Culture Days will continue to take place throughout September, making it easier for community organizations to host online or small in person events.
Alberta Culture Days celebration sites must:
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Let’s celebrate our individual and collective actions in creating a strong, interconnected and vibrant community! Volunteering weaves us together, strengthening the fabric of our community by sharing our time, talent and energy to support one another.
#NVW2023 #WeavingUsTogether
The National Volunteer Week theme for 2023 is Volunteering Weaves Us Together. This reveals the importance of volunteering to the strength and vibrancy of our communities through the interconnected actions we take to support one another. These diverse forms of sharing our time, talent and energy strengthen the fabric of our community.
Through volunteering we experience our interconnectedness, making our lives more meaningful. Getting involved in various ways, we find friendship, develop trust, and link our relationships. Threading these connections, we come to belong as we contribute towards the same goals.
Like each individual thread makes weaving stronger, every volunteer’s experience, perspective, and abilities add to our collective resilience. Woven together from coast to coast to coast, volunteering reinforces our ability to grow, thrive, and create change within our community, province, and country.
Knowing our volunteer contributions are valued and meaningful creates a greater sense of purpose and dedication. From helping build a home, cleaning up a park, or coaching a sports team to cooking for an ill friend, checking in on a neighbour, or helping a stranger cross the street, each action we take impacts our community’s overall wellness, now and for future generations.
During National Volunteer Week 2023, we celebrate our collective impact: through our kindness, generosity and commitment to volunteering, we weave our lives together.
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Volunteer Lethbridge proudly presents the 2023 Servus Volunteer Celebration Gala brought to you by the University of Lethbridge School of Liberal Education.
The community of Lethbridge is invited to nominate individuals or businesses that have demonstrated leadership, inspiration, innovation, impact, and engagement in the community.
Nominations are open March 1-April 15, 2023. Categories include Leaders of Tomorrow, Community Leaders, Lifetime Service, Community Inclusion and Group & Business Community Impact.
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On International Women’s Day 2023, hundreds of community organizations from across Canada have signed a statement declaring that gender equality cannot be achieved without supporting, celebrating, and uplifting trans women. Canada has seen rising hate against trans communities, and particularly against trans women, but trans women deserve our respect and care – in addition to concrete government action to address anti-trans hate.
Today, hundreds of organizations - both individual organizations and major national networks - have joined together to declare that ‘there’s no gender equality without trans women’. On International Women’s Day, advocates across the country have joined together to celebrate women in all their diversity.
Now, we're inviting everyone - individuals, companies, and organizations, to join us in standing up for trans women.
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This week on the podcast, with our guest Annika Voltan of Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia, we’re discussing work-life balance and the rise of the 4 day work week. There’s no denying that the pandemic has been difficult on all of us. Staff worked extra hard, and the lines between personal and professional lives got blurred with everyone working from home. A growing number of organizations, mostly companies, but also nonprofits, have started to explore new ways of working and providing more flexibility to employees. If the pandemic was the catalyst for the rise of decent work and the 4 day work week, competition for talent is certainly another factor. At Imagine Canada, we are currently testing the 4 day work week. We launched a 6-month pilot project at the beginning of 2023. Other organizations started testing a shorter week some time ago now, including Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia. We’re grateful to chat with their Executive Director to learn more about their experience and share learnings.
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Watch for the free movie experience on April 22, 2023. More info to come shortly.
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With recent changes to the disbursement quota (aka the percentage of assets that registered charities are required to spend on charitable programs or on grants to other organizations annually), a debate has arisen about the value of charities preserving capital to ensure that they can continue to grant in perpetuity. Join this virtual panel discussion on March 23, 2023 to hear from a panel of experts as they discuss a diverse range of opinions and perspectives on one of the sector’s hottest topics.
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Mon, 27 March 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM.
This is your opportunity to raise your concerns and questions regarding the nonprofit sector to Volunteer Lethbridge and The Nonprofit Vote. This will be a facilitated discussion aimed to formulate the questions we will raise to our MLAs and provincial candidates at The Nonprofit Vote Town Hall on April 14, 2023. We want to make our questions to our provincial candidates as representative of our community nonprofits as possible. We want to hear your stories about the issues your organization may have been faced with in the past and will continue to face in the future. This is your chance to raise awareness for your organization and our sector.
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This one-day workshop will introduce participants to the core skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI), an
evidence-based approach to counselling and therapy. MI can be a stand-alone counselling approach, or its skills can be used to enhance a variety of mental health interventions, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
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YWCA Women of Distinction awards recognize those women who through their own initiative, ability and effort, have made exemplary achievements in their fields – women who are outstanding role models because of their goals and the way they have achieved these goals. Whether recognized as trailblazers in their fields, young women on the rise, all are pathfinders, bringing forth the key issues facing Canadian women.
2022 Women of Distinction Recipients
Jackie Anderson – Community Leadership and Enhancement
Elaine Jagielski – Wellness, Recreation and Healthy Living
Sandra Mintz – Leadership and Management
Lise-Anne Talhami – Arts, Culture and Heritage
Liz Toles – Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Trina Tymko – Community Leadership and Enhancement
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