Simone Patricia Joyaux: July 23, 1948—May 2, 2021 (September 23, 2021) By any measure, Simone Joyaux used her dash — the time between her date of birth and her date of death—well. During her dash, Joyaux’s (pronounced ZhaWHY-oh) blazed a trail across the nonprofit world, leaving an indelible mark on a sometimes-button-down fundraising profession. She died … [Read more...] about Simone Joyaux: How she lived her dash
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Five ways voting Conservative could doom any climate emergency plan
(September 16, 2021) The message of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report, published in August, was clear—the climate emergency is “widespread, rapid, and intensifying”. Yet, while powerful photographs of hellfire landscapes continue to appear in the newspapers, and we hear of the suffering left behind by Hurricane Ida, many still seem to struggle … [Read more...] about Five ways voting Conservative could doom any climate emergency plan
Liz LeClair joins The Charity Report as contributing editor
(September 14, 2021) The writing of Liz LeClair sprang onto the nonprofit consciousness when she authored in a Point of View piece for the CBC on January 2, 2019 about her experience being sexually assaulted by a donor. Her first-person account was the catalyst many women—and men—working in the charity sector needed to talk about their own experience of sexual … [Read more...] about Liz LeClair joins The Charity Report as contributing editor
Episode 11 – #BlackinSchool with Habiba Cooper Diallo
(September 14, 2021) The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. What #BlackinSchool teaches us is that we know less about is how our schools reinforce rather than erode racism, teaching a one-dimensional, tokenistic curricula portraying Black people, and work to erase the lived … [Read more...] about Episode 11 – #BlackinSchool with Habiba Cooper Diallo
#BlackinSchool: How school reinforces racism
By Gail Picco, September 13, 2021 #BlackinSchool, Habiba Cooper Diallo, University of Regina Press, September 4, 2021, 122 pp., $20.95 Part of a journal Habiba Cooper Diallo kept when she attended high school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, #BlackinSchool establishes how ideas about the nature of Black people, specifically Black bodies, has been baked into the consciousness of … [Read more...] about #BlackinSchool: How school reinforces racism