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Mentoring – Help a Newcomer, Help Yourself
In the United States, January is National Mentoring Month. While this hasn’t officially caught on in Canada, we think it is a great opportunity to talk about mentoring skilled immigrants. The Toronto...
View ArticleNews in Review – Week ending March 25, 2011
We follow a lot of sources and send out links to many articles every day. But we know that your time is limited and you may not be able to follow them all. At the end of each week, we pull out some...
View Article2011 ALLIES Mentoring Conference: Learn + Lead – Day 1 in tweets
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They’re not that into us: the relationship between responsibility and...
Text of speech given by Alan Broadbent at the May 2011 Social Planning Spring Symposium: “They’re not that into us.” I want to talk about three things: the obligations of governance; the tools for good...
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Diversifying your board: five good ideas, thoughts and reflections
At yesterday’s Five Good Ideas session Helen Hayward presented Diversifying Your Board: Why It’s Good and How to Do It. To diversify a board, you should look beyond traditional skills and knowledge for...
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Five things business can learn from non-profits
The results of our Five Good Ideas contest are in! We asked what businesses can learn from non-profits and received advice from acrossCanada. Here are the top five entries. 1. Hire globally by sourcing...
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Innovating together: the White House comes to Tamarack
by Sylvia Cheuy, Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement We at Tamarack are thrilled that a representative from The White House Council on Community Solutions will be joining us as a key...
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The benefits of hiring skilled immigrants. You get it, right?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. hireimmigrants.ca, provides businesses with the tools and resources they need to better recruit, retain and promote skilled immigrants. The site also profiles good...
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Five Canadian diversity thought leaders you should follow on Twitter
Recently, Diversity Best Practices posted a list of diversity tweeters you should follow. Great list, great idea. Here’s our own list of the five top Canadian diversity thought leaders you should...
View ArticleExperienced board directors on putting diversity into action
Board diversity is a hot topic of discussion these days – especially following the Ontario Securities Commission’s public consultation on the requirement for companies to disclose the number of women...
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