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Closing Your Doors with Class - Winter 2010

“Conscious Closure” By Vanessa Reid
Bowing Out Gracefully By Kathleen Speakman
A Not-for-profit Merger Case Study By Rochelle Grayson
Closing with Class By Jennifer Sweeney
Times Gone By By Colleen Kelly
Reviews of The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations and Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity By Brian Fraser

Vantage Point Archive

Community-Based Research - Fall 2009

Research in the Community: Posing an answerable and meaningful research question  By Elana Brief and Colleen Reid
Revisiting the Foundations of Community-Based Research  By Brenda Roche
Putting the Community back into Community Organizations  By Virginia Edelstein
Colleen Reid, Elana Brief, and Robin LeDrew, Our Common Ground: Cultivating Women’s Health through Community Based Research  Vancouver, BC: Women’s Health Research Network, 2009  Review by Brian Fraser

Generations –Summer 2009
Does Generation Change Bring Opportunities or Just More Problems? by Peter C. Brinckerhoff
We Baby Boomers get what we ask for .... Again by Kathi Irvine
Tapping Into the Millennial (Blood)stream by Trina Isakson
Becoming New Again by Colleen

 Leading in Change – Winter 2009 
Opportunities in Turbulent Times by David MacIntyre
Success by Design Not by Chance by Howard Jang
A Unique Partnership by Victoria Stephan
Who is on Your Bus? by Colleen Kelly

Organizational Culture – Fall 2008
Remembering our Roots by Aryne Sheppard
Fostering a Strong, Diverse Culture at Big Brothers by Valerie Lambert
Culture from the Inside Out by Erin McKinley
A Culture of Learning by Colleen Kelly

Ethics in the Voluntary Sector – Spring 2008
Developing a Code of Ethics: Let Your Values Guide You by Outi Flynn
Public Trust & the Charitable Sector by Don McCreesh
Ethics and Capacity-Building: Leading Organizations To Higher Ground in their Service to Others by Jeffrey Wilcox
What Hat Am I Wearing? The Ethics of Role Changes by Colleen Kelly

People First – Winter 2008
Workforce Woes by Lynne Toupin & Lee Rose
Leveraging Talent by Sandy Cooke
Investing in Human Resources, interview with Jan Bell-Irving & Anne Sashikata
Raising a Child by Colleen Kelly

Redefining Volunteerism – Fall 2007
Volunteerism Today – Does Anyone Really Care? by Linda L. Graff
“Climate Change” for the Voluntary Sector by Barney Ellis-Perry
Volunteerism in a New Mode by Kathleen Speakman
The Volunteer Puzzle Piece by Colleen Kelly

Redefining Leadership – Summer 2007
Inspired Leadership: Lessons Learned from the Great Antarctic Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton by Brian Zeiner
Leading Tomorrow’s Diverse Canada Today by Ratna Omidvar
An open letter to board chairs: packing the right toolbox by Miranda Lam
Leading Leaders by Colleen Kelly

Lessons from the Sydney Olympics — Spring 2007
Volunteering in Australia post Sydney Olympics by Rosemary Sage
Legacies from the Sydney Games by Andy Fryar
Terminal Niceness by Colleen Kelly

Information Technology — Fall 2006
Toward Success with IT by Nick Dobbing
Building the Framework for IT Decision Making by Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie
What is Social Media and Web 2.0? by Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot
Can We Really Learn from our Mistakes? by Colleen Kelly