Communicopia

There's always a buzz of activity happening with the Nothing But Nets campaign of the United Nations Foundation. On Friday afternoon, the buzz took the form of mosquito-suited hipster.

I've been on the board of BC Technology Social Venture Partners for over 3 years, and find the work we do helping non-profits reach sustainability and scale incredibly rewarding. This week we were happy to see 3 of our grantees become finalists in Vancity's $1M award. One of our primary goals is to use our networks, expertise, and business skills to help non-profits leverage more funding, so the fact that Vancity picked so many up is big news for us.

Today I facilitated a “BC Education Experts Summit” at our offices in Gastown for the Pembina Institute. Pembina is an amazingly effective 65 person group that is part consultancy, part think tank, and part advocacy organization, one of Canada’s largest environmental groups. We have been hired by their education department to help launch GreenLearning.ca as a national teacher resource for sustainability education in Caanda.