Tips for Solutions Based Advocacy

Many leaders within British Columbia's disability sector are promoting and adapting a social finance strategy that parallels the seven recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance released on November 30th.They are doing it because they: realize the days … Read More

Sean Moore, the wise and big hearted walrus of public policy first remarked this several years ago.  Most government departments have either eliminated or pared to the bare bones their policy development arms.  This means there are few staff dedicated … Read More

It took a million steps and thousands of relationships to launch the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.  Here are a few of those stories. I welcome your contributions, additions, amplifications.  Let's record our history. Eight years ago Tim Brodhead … Read More

And for flagging spirits, tired bodies, troubled minds and suffering souls. Social change can be harsh, hard, unyielding work.  It can take a toll on you, your families, your friends, your acquaintances, your adversaries…  It has on occasion turned me … Read More

The fingers? Yes.  Obviously, but… What about the spaces in between?  The hand is a system comprised of fingers and the spaces in between.  The fingers don't exist without the spaces in between.  Without the spaces in between the fingers … Read More

According to David Eaves, one of the world's expert on open data and open government there are more than 300 different data sets in the federal government alone! How are they able to 'talk' to each other let alone to … Read More

Here's a positive footnote to the recently completed G-20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea.  The G-20 leaders committed more than half a billion dollars to support social finance. That's serious money for sustainable and socially responsible businesses.   While critics and … Read More

I didn't even see it coming.   A big, slow, deliberate set-up.  How could I miss it?  My adrenalin was gushing.  Our campaign to get the Minister to close down a children's facility providing sub standard care was picking up momentum.  … Read More

A foolish question perhaps.  How about Task Force? Advisory Body?  Expert Panel?  Regardless these forms have been around for a long time.  Now a new vehicle or container is emerging simultaneously in many parts of the world. It's generic description … Read More

"Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines … Read More