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 [...]
Monday, May 24, 2010
In less than a week, the National Council of YMCAs will be in session. This annual general meeting of representatives from 53 Associations is always a time to reconnect, renew friendships and make new ones, and conduct the business of our federation. This year, it will be this and more. A record number of delegates [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The letter to the YMCA of Greater Vancouver’s Board of Governors was explicit. All monies received are to be invested, together with the accumulated interest, and left to grow until such time as there are sufficient funds available to build a Downtown YMCA large enough to meet the needs of the City at the time [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
I’ve been on the road for much of the past two weeks — Tijuana for a Prairies MRC-Mexico partnership meeting, Victoria for YMCA Canada’s Board of Directors meeting, Montréal for an MRC CEOs meeting before heading home to Toronto for an Ontario MRC meeting. In these gatherings, I had the chance to see the change [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
YMCA Chief Executive Officers took a bold step in the direction of a shared vision on Monday. We endorsed the case for change which calls on YMCA volunteer and staff leaders to strengthen our federation for greater social impact. We began to discuss implications of the case for how we work within our respective [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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