I’ve just returned from Vancouver where Management Resource Centre (MRC) CEOs, MRC coordinators and national staff worked together on the finer details of Focus 2010-2011, our newly-approved strategic plan update. You’ll recall that the plan organizes our work into five strategic priorities: the National Resource Creation and Capacity Building (NRCCB) Initiative, the YMCA brand, the [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The weeks since the 2010 Annual General Meeting have flown by. Propelled by a strong and clear mandate from the National Council of YMCAs, we’ve been working on: supporting the search for a new President & Chief Executive Officer for the YMCA of Greater Vancouver recruiting a Senior Vice President for Shared Services developing RFPs for consultant support [...]
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Here we are! The National Council of YMCAs. 250 YMCA leaders, including 40 young people, from 53 Associations. Volunteers and staff together. Retirees like Joe Walker from Peterborough, Ontario. Friends and supporters, like Jowi Taylor (with Voyageur in its bright yellow case) and a legion of red-shirted facilitators from MASS LBP. See the circle of Muskoka [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
We woke up this morning to more bad news about the health of Canada’s children and youth. Every major paper across the country carried one message: 88% of school-aged kids are failing to meet the recommended minimum of 90 minutes of physical activity each day. The problem begins with pre-schoolers, we’re told. The headline in [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
With this question, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver has launched a powerful conversation about community and why it matters. You’ll want to read the article in today’s Globe and Mail that tells the story of this exciting multi-media campaign, and to check out the website that is already engaging people from around the world. But [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
This week, we’re marking the mid-point in the 100 day plan that I launched on January 4th, 2010. It’s time to take stock of what we’ve done so far and what we have left to do. It’s also time to try out the little video camera in my laptop. So, here’s my Day 50 report delivered [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
This Sunday, we’re convening our YMCA Chief Executive Officers Forum at the Banff Centre in Alberta. For a day and a half, we’ll be working together to:
Monday, January 18, 2010
When we convened in Winnipeg for Portage ’09 last June, change was in the air. Presenters like Leslie Crutchfield called us to act in ways that would make us an even greater force for good. We called each other to act as one organization to dramatically improve the health of Canada’s children and youth. And [...]
Monday, January 11, 2010
My thanks to those who commented on my first post by e-mail and on this blog. I appreciate your encouragement, observations and ideas. You’ve given all of us a lot to think about. Your responses and our inaugural poll results confirm that many of us want to connect and are ready to try new tools. Another opportunity [...]
Monday, January 4, 2010
It’s a new year and the first day of a new job for me at YMCA Canada. I’m excited about our challenges and by technology that helps us tackle them together – like this blog. By the end of the day, I’ll have spent time with the Chair of the National Board, the national staff [...]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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