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Eighth Day To champion and celebrate the sexual health of all people in BC by supporting, providing, and promoting inclusive and accessible health care and education. Options for Sexual Health Mission Ninth Day Centre for Inquiry Canada fosters a secular society based on reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. CFIC’s MIssion →Read more
The fifth and final organization that my students worked with this semester was The Equestrian Association for the Disabled (T.E.A.D.) T.E.A.D. provides therapeutic horse riding lessons for people with physical and cognitive/communication disabilities. It operates on a 92 acre farm in Port Hope, Ontario, with a very small staff, an active board of directors, and […] →Read more
Another organization that my students worked with this semester was the Lifesaving Society – BC & Yukon Branch. This Society has been around since 1911 and its mandate is “to reduce water-related death and injury”. So whether you are swimming in a pool or at the beach or you are out boating or going out […] →Read more
Since knew I was going to be in Ontario for Christmas, we put up the Christmas tree in mid-November to allow me time to enjoy it before I left. But since I was crazy busy up until I left, I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it until now. Though the Christmas tree on its […] →Read more
Rounding out the New Westminster-based non-profit organizations that my students worked with this semester is New Westminster Family Place, which is “a community hub where families access support, opportunities for engagement, and community resources.” They run a variety of programs for families with children, including arts, cooking, and nature-based programming, and have drop-in locations around the […] →Read more
Another non-profit organization that my class worked with this semester was the New West Hospice Society. This is a relatively new non-profit organization in New Westminster that is working “to provide services and to facilitate processes for those in New Westminster experiencing end-of-life and bereavement”. Death and dying are a fact of life, but so […] →Read more
This semester I taught a program planning and evaluation class at SFU and the main assignment was for the students to work with a non-profit organization to develop an evaluation plan that the organization can use. So I figure I will highlight the five nonprofits that we worked with as part of my course. First […] →Read more
Today’s charity is the Wikimedia Foundation ((Wikimedia is an American non-profit, so as a Canadian, I can’t get a tax deduction for donating to them, but I think the work they do is important enough that I’m willing to forgo the tax deduction!)) To empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop […] →Read more
As I’ve mentioned before, my charitable giving “strategy”, well, doesn’t really exist. I typically end up giving to charity when someone I know is doing a fundraiser, like a fun ride or the Ride to Conquer Cancer. Some years I get a lot of asks and end up donating to a variety of charities. But […] →Read more
Remember when Apple was in the news for, without telling customers, slowing down the operation of older iPhones when the battery was low on power (which older phones are all the time because their battery life sucks) or it was cold outside (which is a constant problem for someone like me who is often at […] →Read more