Five Good Ideas ®
Five Good Ideas is a lunch-and-learn program where industry and issue experts discuss powerful yet practical ideas on key management issues facing non-profit organizations. The sessions are most useful for management staff and board members at small and mid-sized non-profits.
Each expert presents five concise ideas and explores with the audience how these ideas can be translated into action. During each session, participants organize into small groups and continue the discussion to generate the best and most relevant of all ideas.
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The Five Good Ideas Book
Upcoming Five Good Ideas sessions
November 25, 2021
Webinar: Five Good Ideas for building community-labour relations
Rosemarie Powell, Executive Director, Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN)
Previous Five Good Ideas sessions
Published on 25/10/2021
In this Five Good Ideas session with Owen Charters, President & CEO of BGC Canada, find out how a board can be better.
They say strategy starts with the board, but is that really true, and should it be? Whether you’re an executive director or CEO (including an aspiring one), managing a board is a skill that’s rarely taught, yet vital to any senior non-profit leader. In this Five Good Ideas session with Owen Charters, President & CEO […]
Published on 28/09/2021
Employers are looking to find ways to create a hybrid workplace where their staff can work in the office as well as from home
COVID-19 forced employers and employees to adapt to a virtual workplace. More than one and a half years into the pandemic, many employees don’t want to go back to the old ways of working, and employers are looking to find ways to create a hybrid workplace where their staff can work in the office as […]
Published on 15/06/2021
For anyone working in a for-profit, non-profit, or charitable organization, it is critically important to have a robust finance and accounting team that can help them understand and leverage the financial aspects of their organization.
For anyone working in a for-profit, non-profit, or charitable organization, it is critically important to have a robust finance and accounting team that can help them understand and leverage the financial aspects of their organization. This will help minimize risk but also support them – and their organization – in navigating and planning for the […]
Published on 22/04/2021
In this session, Marina Glogovac, President & CEO of CanadaHelps, shared insights on one of the hottest topics out there right now: digital transformation.
In this session, Marina Glogovac, President & CEO of CanadaHelps, shares insights on one of the hottest topics out there right now: digital transformation. With a career spanning nearly three decades in technology and media (including working in the magazine industry during the shift to the internet), she knows the challenges that come from forced […]
Published on 25/03/2021
How do we best address growing colour-coded inequality – for Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour, including Black Canadians?
How do we best address growing colour-coded inequality – for Indigenous peoples and peoples of colour, including Black Canadians? What are the institutional, structural, and systemic impacts of racism, faithism, and related inequality in education, housing, justice, health, and employment? How can individuals, groups, and organizations engage in effective trust-building, ally-ship, partnership development, and advocacy […]
Published on 25/02/2021
In this Five Good Ideas session Royson James de-mystifies the media and talks about how journalists think so you know when, where, and how to engage them intelligently.
How do you adopt a media mind and make it yours? At some point you may have gotten burned by media or just ignored. Since disengagement isn’t an option, how do you move on and germinate, nurture, and sustain lasting relationships? In this Five Good Ideas session, Royson James, the Toronto Star’s urban affairs columnist […]
Published on 26/01/2021
In this session, Kristen Pennington, Partner, Employment and Privacy Law at McMillan LLP, discusses meaningful ways an organization can prevent workplace harassment.
Workplace harassment complaints can cause significant organizational unrest, loss of reputation and damage to employee morale, in addition to considerable legal liability. In this session, Kristen Pennington, Partner, Employment and Privacy Law at McMillan LLP, discusses meaningful ways an organization can prevent workplace harassment to avoid such complaints, as well as minimize disruption in the […]
Published on 03/12/2020
Watch Mary W. Rowe, President & CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, and the host of CityTalkCanada, as she presents her five good ideas for the non-profit sector to build a city, now and in the wake of a global pandemic.
Cities are the fundamental building block of contemporary society, certainly in Canada where almost 90 per cent of our population lives in a community of 5,000 or more. COVID-19 – and the various measures governments have taken to cope with it – is having a dramatic impact on the future of urban life now, and […]
Published on 28/10/2020
With over 40% of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque, more employers are asking what they can do to increase the financial health of their staff.
With over 40% of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque, more employers are asking what they can do to increase the financial health of their staff. Alex Mazer and Nora Beatty of workplace retirement plan provider Common Wealth share their five good ideas to help you build financial security in the short and longer term. As […]