January 2010 Webinar
Facilitator:
Sheherazade Hirji
www.hirjiwhiteconsulting.ca
Sheherazade Hirji has worked in the philanthropic sector for the past 20 years. Her work experiences include the Donner Canadian Foundation, Max Bell Foundation, and Aga Khan Foundation Canada. At the Ontario Trillium Foundation between 1989 and 1999, she held a variety of positions including Director of Learning and Evaluation, Vice President of Grants, and Acting CEO. Most recently, she was the Executive Director of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, where she helped transform the company's charitable impulse into a national community investment strategy in support of shelters serving women and children fleeing violence. She has worked with leading Canadian foundations in a consulting capacity in the areas of program development, coaching new staff, coaching foundation grantees in organizational and program evaluation, and conducting evaluations of funding programs. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of evaluation for grantmakers. Sheherazade qualified as a Solicitor in England, and as Barrister and Solicitor in British Columbia and is an alumni of the Niagara Institute's Leadership Program and of The Judy Project, a program of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
Sheherazade's volunteer commitments have included the Great Lakes Management Assistance Project for Non-Profits, Denver, Colorado, the Ismaili Council for Canada, and as a Board Member of the Wellesley Institute. She is currently a Member of the National Committee of Aga Khan Foundation Canada, an international development agency and serves on the board of the Canadian Women's Foundation. In 2009, Sheherazade was the recipient of The Hope Award, presented by the North York Women's Shelter, in recognition of her outstanding commitment to advancing the cause of women and girls.
October 27th, 2009 - Webinar
Panelist:
Judith Maxwell
Judith Maxwell is Senior Fellow and the Founding President of Canadian Policy Research Networks [CPRN]. She has extensive experience in both public and private sector think tanks, and has established a national reputation as a leading thinker on Canada’s social and economic policy choices. She is also one of the pioneers in deliberative dialogues that give unaffiliated citizens a voice in public policy discussion.
Mrs. Maxwell is a member of the Order of Canada and a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Ottawa. Until January, 2009, she was a biweekly columnist for the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business She has served on the boards of BCE Inc, Clarica Inc and the Bank of Canada. Judith has also been awarded honorary degrees by eight Canadian universities and one community college. She was Chair of the Economic Council of Canada from 1985 to 1992. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant, as Director of Policy Studies at the C.D. Howe Institute and as a journalist with the Financial Times of Canada.
Panelist:
Mitchell Temkin
Mitchell Temkin is the principal of Associatus Consulting, providing strategy, business development, and board development services to purpose-driven organizations. He brings to his work more than 25 years of diverse experience as a consultant and as a senior manager in both businesses and the not-for-profit sector. He began his career as a strategist and program developer for Toronto social marketing and communications agency, Manifest Communication. Subsequently, he was National Director of Advancement and Resource Development for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He then became a founding partner and VP Marketing, Sales, and Business Development for Bird On A Wire Networks, a provider of managed hosting services for Internet infrastructure. More recently he worked with a large Canadian travel retailer to develop their online business strategy and build and launch the first online booking engine for student airfares in Canada.
Since moving west from Toronto four years ago, Mitchell has worked with a growing roster of voluntary sector and commercial clients both in both Victoria and on the lower mainland. He has been a volunteer with the Victoria United Way’s Volunteer Leadership Development Program, and is currently a director of Leadership Victoria. In the past he has served on the boards of the Ontario Field Ornithologists, and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, as well as on the Communications Advisory Committee of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. He is currently working on organizational strategies for an agency providing services to people with developmental disabilities, and a funder of academic research in the social sciences and humanities.
Mitchell has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, from which he graduated as an Ivey Scholar. He is also qualified as a Certified Management Consultant.
Panelist:
Sid Frankel
Sid Frankel is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. He has served as Director of the Child and Family Services Research Group, Co-Director of the Manitoba Research Centre on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, and Acting Director of Research and Planning for the Department of Community Services and Corrections. He is author of The nonprofit and voluntary sector in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Territories : Regional highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (Imagine Canada) and co-author of Cornerstones of Community: Highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (Statistics Canada) and The status of Manitoba’s Voluntary Sector: A Comprehensive Survey (Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector Organization of Manitoba). He has been actively involved for over 30 years in service delivery, management, program development, policy analysis, program evaluation and organizational leadership, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Social Welfare. Sid is currently chairperson of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada board, and also serves of the boards of The Boys and Girls Clubs Foundation the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (Vice President), the Manitoba Research Institute and the Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector Organization of Manitoba.
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