Gautam Nath
Board Member, York University Advisory Board – February 2011.
Position Available: Writer/Web Editor – Cities of Migration
Cities of Migration is seeking a Writer/Web Editor
Position Available: Writer/Content Developer – ALLIES
ALLIES is seeking a Writer/Content Developer
DiverseCity event
May 10 – The Canadian Club of Toronto hosts DiverseCity. Opening address by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
Winter, Cathy
Manager, DiverseCity OnBoard, Maytree Marketplace Presenter Cathy is a recent retiree from the Ontario Public Service and her last 14 years were at the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee where she was Director of Client Services and Deputy Public Guardian and Trustee. Cathy has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount St. Vincent [...]
Santila Patel
North York Women’s Shelter
Naja Alavi
North York Women’s Shelter
Canada at 150: The Social Agenda
By Sherri Torjman, Vice-President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy
(Speech was delivered at the Canada@150 Conference held in Montreal on March 26-28, 2010.)
From a social perspective, we face three main challenges at 150: Canada as productive society, Canada as caring society and Canada as aging society. These formidable challenges are intrinsically linked. I will also consider the financial challenges of paying for this agenda.
Policy in Focus webinar
Join Sherri Torjman for a webinar on support for caregivers.
An estimated four million Canadians act as unpaid or informal caregivers to seniors and persons with disabilities.
Join Sherri Torjman, Vice-President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy on Thursday, June 3, 12:00-1:00 p.m. to discuss expanding Employment Insurance, extending Canada Pension Plan (CPP) provisions, making tax credits refundable, and other ideas to provide financial and other supports to caregivers.
RSVP to: policyinfocus@maytree.com
Strong Cities = Strong Canada?
In September 2009, Alan Broadbent visited PublicVoice TV, an online source for leading edge thinking and ideas about critical public policy questions. He was interviewed on whether stronger cities really mean a stronger country and whether cities should be given more power.
Making Their Mark
Making Their Mark: Canada’s Young Refugees
This publication celebrates the 10th year anniversary of the Maytree Scholarship Program, with profiles of 22 past scholarship recipients.
Featuring an essay by Peter Showler.
Upcoming Webinar: “It’s Not Just Getting a Job: It’s Building a Career”. ‘Mentor and Network’, Good HR Practices for Workforce Integration
On October 20, 2009, join Cities of Migration with guest speakers, Sherazade Langlade, from New York’s Upwardly Global and Beatriz Hernandez de Fuhr, from Copenhagen’s KVinfo, internationally recognized experts in the fields of mentoring and labourforce integration. Register Now>>
Selma D’Souza
Serving with Pride, Board Member -September 2009.
Watch the Webinar: Fulfulling the Promise
TRIEC and New Zealand’s OMEGA shared best practices on integrating immigrant skills into the economy. Download the archived webinar>>
The Power of Stories
Maytree Opinion, Issue #12 By Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Maytree Telling a story is probably the most common form of human communication. Our parents read us stories, we learn to read them to ourselves, we tell them to each other. Stories allows us to connect to each other. When we hear a story, we can fit [...]
Mahaffy, Ian
Ian has been an active speaker on the Toronto People with AIDS foundation Speakers’ Bureau for almost 12 years, and has spoken to school groups, colleges, universities, businesses, church groups, and more. He is a professional speaker, who brings a very human side to HIV. Ian’s speeches are humorous, enlightening, and, for the most part, [...]
Online News Conference: Adjusting the Balance
Release of Naomi Alboim’s report “Adjusting the Balance: Fixing Canada’s Economic Immigration Policies.” Canada needs a strong immigration program to help meet its population and labour market needs while also improving outcomes for immigrants. However, recent federal policy shifts have altered the landscape for economic immigration to Canada without public debate. Canada has gone too [...]
Webinar – July 28, 2009
Fulfilling the Promise: Integrating Immigrant Skills into the Urban Economy. Details
New National Mentoring Initiative to Help Canadian Urban Centres Integrate Skilled Immigrants into Workforce
June 11, 2009: More skilled immigrants will now find employment in their field because of a new mentoring initiative. TD Bank Financial Group and ALLIES, a joint program of Maytree and The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, announced today the launch of a new National Mentoring Initiative at the 2009 ALLIES Learning Exchange conference at the Westin Bayshore Hotel (1601 Bayshore Drive) in Vancouver, B.C.
DiverseCity Counts
On Wednesday, May 27, DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project and the Diversity Institute at Ryerson University released the inaugural DiverseCity Counts Report, highlighting the number of visible minorities in senior leadership roles in the GTA (download the presentation). DiverseCity Counts: A Snapshot of Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area looked at 3257 leaders across [...]
Policy in Focus webinar
How diverse is the senior leadership in the Greater Toronto Area? Watch the DiverseCity Counts Webinar with Wendy Cukier, the Diversity Institute, Ryerson University and author of DiverseCity Counts.
Tatjana Radovanovic
Wychwood Open Door, February 2009
Niaz Salimi
Board Member, Iranian Canadian Congress – December 2009.
Leaders for Change 2008-09 program
Apply today for this unique 9-month leadership development program for social justice activists.
Tinashe Mafukidze
Board Member, Immigrant Youth Canada – August 2008.
Tinashe Mafukidze
Board Member, Pediatrics AIDS Canada – August 2008.
Interview with Jehad Aliweiwi
Jehad is a strategic thinker with more than ten years of experience in senior management positions in social, settlement and community service organizations. Since 2004, Jehad has held the position of Executive Director with Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, a multi service non-profit organization serving the Thorncliffe community for more than 20 years. Prior to that, he [...]