Measure & Accelerate Belonging: A Principles-Focused Evaluation Toolkit

How do you measure the impact of your equity and inclusion initiatives so that you can learn what’s working and what needs course correcting? Global experts Dr. Michael Quinn Patton, a world renowned organizational development and program evaluation expert in systems transformation, and Jessie Sutherland, the founding director of Intercultural Strategies and the award-winning Belonging […]

Capacity Building Project for Racialized Organizations

Join us on Wednesday, October 4th at 3:00 pm for a virtual information session about CCS’s ongoing capacity-building initiative for small organizations supporting marginalized communities.  Sign-up through our Eventbrite link here. The ‘Capacity Building Project for Racialized Organizations’ will equip small, racialized and indigenous organizations with the knowledge and tools to apply for and successfully […]

Impact Fellowship

APPLY AT: cangap.ca/fellowship   The Impact Fellowship program provides participants with the opportunity to deepen their sense of community and connection while serving those around them. This new and free program will be funded and led by 4 community leaders.    The Fellowship aims to nurture a close-knit, diverse and inclusive group of young community […]

Managing to become a leader

In the context of project management, this article identifies three key characteristics that distinguish leadership from simple management.

Developing a business case

If you have ever pitched a project idea, you have likely been asked what the business case for the project is. Developing a business case is your opportunity to articulate what is in it for the organization.

Building quality into the project

The first step in ensuring a quality project is knowing exactly what you are to deliver. You need to clearly define and communicate the project scope with all project stakeholders. What are you going to create?

Measuring greatness: Defining quality standards

Quality is often an elusive concept in project delivery. How do we know that we have delivered a quality project? More importantly, how do we know that we have delivered a quality product?

Delivering a project in stages

There are various approaches or models for the project lifecycle. This article focuses on the Staged Delivery Model and addresses some of its disadvantages.

Introduction to the project lifecycle

This article provides a description of the project lifecycle and demonstrates what a project looks like when it all comes together.