Charity Spotlight – WCSWR

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WCSWR – Women’s Crisis Service of Waterloo Region provides a safe haven to women and their children escaping abuse. As our region grows, so does the need for safe shelter. Your help is needed to rebuild Haven House.

In the midst of a crisis, women and their children are being forced to share bedrooms and bathrooms. They need privacy.  Haven House needs to raise a final $2.5 to build more space because She Deserves It. 

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Embracing Agile – Recommended HBR read

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Take the time to read a terrific Innovation article – Embracing Agile in the Harvard Business Review May issue.

Personally, I always value the extraordinary insights from those who have been those architects of new ideas. It is valuable to learn in what way the new paradigm has stayed true to the original principles and how it has evolved over the years.

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Charity Spotlight – Back Up

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Back Up demonstrates amazing impact to enrich the lives of those impacted by spinal cord injury.

Every 8 hours, someone has their life changed forever through spinal cord injury in the UK. Back Up provides out-reach with much needed emotional and practical support.

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Hacking Health Waterloo cafe

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Data integrity is paramount to the success of health outcome measurement programs. A motivating experience to be one of the speakers at Hacking Health Waterloo cafe 6.

Again such an eclectic mix of intelligent, passionate professionals trying to solve healthcare challenges. Here are the promised links to the resources and references.

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HubSpot customer story – 45-minute blog

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I am very honoured to have had the opportunity to publish a customer post on the authoritative HubSpot website….. it is a true story too.

This post describes the process with HubSpot, how I got here and what’s next.
It is fun to see what happens through experimentation, you never know until you try.

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Too many Empty Bowls

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In place of our usual Charity Spotlight here is my edited Medium post challenging whether we can actually have too many charities. This applies to nonprofits supporting homelessness and disease areas in either one country or indeed worldwide.

It seems to me that we should be striving for collaboration.

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Hacking health trend

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Hacking health is trending in 2016. That is not to say that the application of agile practices in healthcare are entirely new but it has now gained momentum and global recognition.

Hacking in healthcare appears a hot topic for 2016. Here we explore these new converging ideas. Scott Brinker nicely portrays Hacking as inventive, building through agility, transparency, collaboration yet steered by strategy.
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Charity Spotlight – Cure Brain Cancer

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Cure Brain Cancer Foundation profoundly demonstrates what is possible through international collaboration.

CEO, Catherine Stace has steered the Australian charity to worldwide recognition, in what could be described as excellence in Hacking Brain Cancer.

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Cultural change as a driver for outcomes

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Cultural change is one driver for ensuring sustainability for quality health improvement. In this continuing series of posts, we explore the excellent work by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

Their excellent resource titled The Spread and Sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare explores 10 key factors underpinning spread and sustainability. We highly commend their work and hope it receives wider international recognition.
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Charity Spotlight – Plastic Bank

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Plastic Bank is a wonderful social business model turning plastic waste into currency. Brilliant in its simplicity. It is sparking a #SocialPlastic movement.

This is an inspiring story where those challenged by poverty are able to help themselves and each other to benefit from the plastic waste we produce.

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