Members of the Iranian community organize an event to welcome their peers and others into the Calgary community.
Volunteers help their peers participate in community celebrations even as they move through their cancer journeys.
Volunteers from a wide range of life circumstances, including women recovering from addictions and trauma, gather regularly to make quilts for people who need them.
Youth volunteers provide their peers with the chance to make friendships and break social isolation
Volunteers introduce new moms in their African communities to available resources and to each other
Students from the local school work with their neighbourhood to beautify the community through a participatory art mural project
Volunteers and staff organize a Blanket Exercise for the Jewish community and anyone from the multifaith community at the Jewish Community Centre
Volunteers help distribute food and ‘neighbour kits’ to help people struggling with food security be better nourished and in turn help more isolated community members who are facing the same challenges
The Oakridge Community Association (OCA) wishes to embark on a series of strategic planning sessions to develop a strategic plan for the next three to five years. It wishes to embark on these sessions through the fall with completion of the plan slated for the end of this calendar year. The reason for the urgency to complete this process is that OCA recently received word that its present General Manager will be retiring in the spring after nearly three decades with the organization. It’s imperative that OCA have a plan in place by Jan. 1st, so that it can post for the new General Manager role early in the new year. This will provide the OCA with time to post, receive applications, interview, select and place a candidate by April 1st.
To provide research for messaging and reaching audiences to drive action and behaviour toward engagement and support for seniors and seniors’ issues. Results will inform communications and marketing efforts. Specifically:
– Establish baseline awareness/understanding of resources for seniors in the city and at Calgary Seniors
– Determine media and information resources used by key audiences
– Understand basic perceptions and conditions that influence support for senior’s issues, ageing, and ageism
– Build awareness among Calgarians of seniors in their own communities to further their willingness to offer support, and
– Test messages that will drive their increased engagement with, and support of, older persons in their own communities