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New InterGen Lab promises to address labour supply issues with innovative solutions to support an ageing workforce

Charity Village

Amidst Canada’s ageing population, increasingly tight labour markets from coast to coast to coast, and a changing world of work, employers, workers, and job seekers require urgent and evidence-based solutions. Challenge Factory and the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) announced a new collaboration: The Intergenerational (InterGen) Lab.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

They were too busy working and keeping a roof over our head to have time to deal with their mental and emotional issues,” he said in episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast. Less than half of all Americans with a mental disorder actually get the treatment they need. Our parents, they were scratching and surviving.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

Museum 2.0

Simon knew something had to change. “We She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. You had to improve the land.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, building robust networks and using social media can help these advocacy organizations make change happen for children in their state. Utah is dead last in the nation for education funding per pupil. It’s also hard to change the. Life Elevated.” better way.

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

And I started a young professionals board, the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St. But whatever you call it, the thing that we’re talking about today are leadership committees focused on providing opportunities for young people, and that’s a part of the definition that might change. My name is Corinne.